On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 06:25:50PM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > I'm running on the ancient CentOS-4.8, and there is no feasible way to > upgrade this system in the forseeable future. > I'd like to get Shorewall running on that system, if possible, and I > wonder if someone could recommend the proper version of Shorewall to > download that would work on this Stone-Age version of CentOS. > Thank you for any pointers or suggestions.
Hi Lloyd, I apologize for the rather unhelpful responses you have received. I am going to assume that you understand the risk of running such an outdated system and that you also have a good reason for doing so. Understanding that you will be limited to an outdated Shorewall, the principal constraints are the versions of Linux, iptables, and Perl available to you. Distrowatch shows Linux 2.6.9 and Perl 5.8.5 as available in RHEL 4.8. Based on that, you can probably run Shorewall 4.6 (it appears that the last release was 4.6.13.4 in January 2016). If for some reason that doesn't work, than you can fall back to 4.2. However, that version is ancient and predates the current Git source control so I cannot easily tell you when it was released. You can probably search for it in the archives. Some articles on the requirements: versions 4.4-4.6: http://www.shorewall.org/4.6/shorewall_prerequisites.htm versions 4.0-4.2: http://www.shorewall.org/4.2/shorewall_prerequisites.htm Additional documentation: http://www.shorewall.org/4.6/Documentation_Index.html http://www.shorewall.org/4.2/Documentation_Index.html I encourage you to carefully read the documentation as many things have changed over the years and it is prudent to understand the particular version of Shorewall you are working with. Additionally, expect that you may not receive the best help if you encounter problems. Feel free to ask here on the list or in IRC, but not many of us still deal with such old versions. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list Shorewall-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
