Am Donnerstag, 4. November 2010, 20:50:06 schrieb Tom Eastep: > On 11/4/10 12:10 PM, wfdudley wrote: > > Tom, > > > > Thanks for your reply. I've been mulling this over since then. > > > > I'm not sure what "pulled all documentation from the up-stream config > > files in favor of man pages" means, but when I type "man shorewall-rules" > > I get the helpful message "man: not found", so that's "a fail", in the > > current parlance. I understand that's somebody else's problem, but it's > > still broken. > > > > So the answer to my initial query appears to be that in order to > > configure a LEAF/Bering/Shorewall router firewall, one has to read all > > the man pages for the 30 or so configuration files, plus have a solid > > understanding of the particular version of ip filtering that is on that > > week's version of Linux. > > As Shorewall is released from shorewall.net, smart first-time users: > > a) Go to shorewall.net > b) Click on the "Getting started with Shorewall" link. > c) Click on the "Quickstart Guide" link. > d) Follow the instructions. > > Note: I'm uncertain if the LEAF developers package the sample > configurations on which those instructions are based. They may have > omitted them for the same reason that they omitted the man pages.
LEAF does not package the sample configurations and the man pages. Instead we provide a (simple) setup that works out of the box for most of the users - at least that's what we hope(d) to do. For everything else we can't top the docs at shorewall.net. kp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
