From: Tom E. <te...@sh...> - 2003-03-28 20:34:59
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On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, John Wenger wrote: > I am getting ready to try Shorewall 1.2 on a Debian Stable system. The > deb does not contain the examples, so I can not copy them as instructed > by the manual. I guess this is a mistake by the Debian packager of > Shorewall. > > Does anyone have the examples for Shoreline 1.2, or know where I can > find them on the net? > ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/1.2/samples-1.2.* > Is the online documentation for Shorewall 1.2 still on the net > somewhere? I keep getting a 404 when I try to access the online > documentation for the 1.2 version of Shorewall. I just tried several > URLs from Google. I really would like to see the documentation stay > online for the current stable version of Debian. The only copies left now are packaged with the code (the "documentation" directory is a copy of the on-line documentation on the day of release). ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/1.2/shorewall-1.2.*.tgz. Each of those tarballs has the complete set of documentation packaged with it. > The unstable Debian packages for Shorewall (both Testing and Unstable) > do contain the examples, but of course they are for a different version > of Shorewall, and may not be appropriate for Shorewall 1.2. > > It does not make sense to me to run unstable software on a firewall, and > that is why I want to run Debian Stable there, and that means Shorewall > 1.2, or else a lot of hacking. Given that we are now at Version 1.4.1, calling the 1.3 series "unstable" is laughable. I personally think it's ridiculous to be installing Shorewall 1.2 now -- The last 1.2 version was released almost a year ago now and the product itself is just two years old. I haven't supported 1.2 for several months now... -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Shorewall - iptables made easy Shoreline, \ http://www.shorewall.net Washington USA \ te...@sh... |