Some Things that Shorewall Cannot Do

Tom Eastep

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2004-03-18


Table of Contents

Shorewall Cannot:
In Addition:

Shorewall Cannot:

  • Act as a “Personal Firewall” that allows internet access by application.

  • Be used with an Operating System other than Linux (version >= 2.4.0)

  • Do content filtering:

In Addition:

  • Shorewall does not contain any support for Netfilter Patch-O-Matic features or any other features that require kernel patching -- Shorewall only supports features from released kernels.