The shorewall firewall is one of the most powerful firewalls, and most used in GNU/Linux servers.

However, in many Linux distributions (such as Debian or Ubuntu), when installing it, the configuration files are not installed (you have to create them by hand).

There is also no configuration tool installed.

The shorewall_config provides a simple tool (a bash script) to conveniently configure the shorewall firewall.

Characteristics:

• type: bash script
• language: english
• version: 1.1
• suitable to configure: shorewall version 4/5 IPv4
• compressed size: 3.8 Kb.
• uncompressed size: 18.1 Kb.
• first version written as of August, 2012
• last modification: June 11, 2024

Requirements:

• SO: GNU/Linux
• bash
• shorewall (apt install shorewall)

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