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2016/02/16

NIST Guide on Firewalls and Firewall Policy - http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-41-Rev1/sp800-41-rev1.pdf
PPPPPPPS ( or, Paul's Principles for Practical Provision of Packet Processing with Shorewall ) http://linuxman.wikispaces.com/PPPPPPS
Netfilter Site: http://www.netfilter.org/
Linux Advanced Routing and Traffic Control Howto: http://lartc.org/
Clustering Shorewall: http://linuxman.wikispaces.com/Clustering+Shorewall
Iproute Downloads: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/net/iproute2/
LEAF Site: http://leaf.sourceforge.net
Bering uClibc LEAF Distribution: http://leaf.sourceforge.net/bering-uclibc/
Iptables Tutorial: https://www.frozentux.net/documents/iptables-tutorial/
Debian apt-get sources for Shorewall: http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/debian/http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/debian/
About the Shorewall Author: http://www.shorewall.net/shoreline.htm
Tom's 2005 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/LinuxFest2005.pdf
Tom's 2006 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/LinuxFest2006.pdf
Tom's 2007 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/Linuxfest-2007.pdf
Tom's 2008 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/Linuxfest-2008.pdf
Tom's 2009 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/LinuxFestNW-2009.pdf
Tom's 2010 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/LinuxFestNW-2010.pdf
Tom's 2011 LinuxFest NW Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/LinuxFest2011.pdf
Tom's 2013 SeaGL Presentation: http://www.shorewall.net/SeaGL2013.pdf

Documentation

Frequently Used Articles

- FAQs - IPv4 Manpages - IPv6 Manpages - Configuration File Basics - Beginner Documentation - Troubleshooting

Shorewall 4.0/4.2 Documentation

Current HOWTOs and Other Articles

- 6to4 and 6in4 Tunnels - Accounting - Actions - Aliased (virtual) Interfaces (e.g., eth0:0) - Anatomy of Shorewall - Anti-Spoofing Measures - AUDIT Target support - Bandwidth Control - Blacklisting/Whitelisting - Bridge/Firewall - Building Shorewall from GIT - Commands - Compiled Programs - Configuration File Basics - DHCP - DNAT - Dynamic Zones - ECN Disabling by host or subnet - Events - Extension Scripts - Fallback/Uninstall - FAQs - Features - Fool's Firewall - Forwarding Traffic on the Same Interface - FTP and Shorewall - Helpers/Helper Modules - Installation/Upgrade - IPP2P - IPSEC - Ipsets - IPv6 Support - ISO 3661 Country Codes - Kazaa Filtering - Kernel Configuration - KVM (Kernel-mode Virtual Machine) - Limiting Connection Rates - Linux Containers (LXC) - Linux-vserver - Logging - Macros - MAC Verification - Manpages (IPv4) (IPv6) - Manual Chains - Masquerading - Multiple Internet Connections from a Single Firewall - Multiple Zones Through One Interface - My Shorewall Configuration - Netfilter Overview - Network Mapping - No firewalling of traffic between bridge port - One-to-one NAT - Operating Shorewall - OpenVPN - OpenVZ - Packet Marking - Packet Processing in a Shorewall-based Firewall - 'Ping' Management - Port Forwarding - Port Information - Port Knocking (deprecated) - Port Knocking, Auto Blacklisting and Other Uses of the 'Recent Match' - PPTP - Proxy ARP - QuickStart Guides - Release Model - Requirements - Routing and Shorewall - Routing on One Interface - Samba - Shorewall Events - Shorewall Init - Shorewall Lite - Shorewall on a Laptop - Shorewall Perl - Shorewall Setup Guide - SMB - SNAT - Split DNS the Easy Way - Squid with Shorewall - Starting/stopping the Firewall - Static (one-to-one) NAT - Support - Tips and Hints - Traffic Shaping/QOS - Simple - Traffic Shaping/QOS - Complex - Transparent Proxy - UPnP - Upgrade Issues - Upgrading to Shorewall 4.4 (Upgrading Debian Lenny to Squeeze) - VPN - VPN Passthrough - White List Creation - Xen - Shorewall in a Bridged Xen DomU - Xen - Shorewall in Routed Xen Dom0

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