Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] shorewall update

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Dear Heiko,

> The newer shorewall version requires updates to the build script and thus
> also more testing.
>
> Unfortunately I don't have much time anymore to work on these types of
> tasks. But if anybody can figure it out and send in a patch, then I'll be more than happy to add
> it.

I started to try a new Shorewall month ago. From less than two weeks I test it on a production
router. It seems that it is OK.

I built version 4.5.21.3. For this you need two files: shorewall-core-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2 and
shorewall-4.5.21.3.tar.bz2. Hope, my patch will be good for next versions.

Now Shorewall requires a configuration file shorewallrc and is looking for it in the
/usr/share/shorewall. Because of it I edit built script not only for compile both source files,
but also for solve shorewallrc problem according to the architecture of the DL. I put shorewallrc
into /etc/shorewall and this is linked to the original position, so shorewallrc can be modified.
Initial contents of shorewallrc is sufficient for my existing shorewall configurations to work
without changes.

I warn all, that my production tests has only two weeks and may go into some surprises.

With Christmas regards

Andrzej Odyniec