On 11/1/2020 2:06 PM, Witold Tosta wrote:
> 
> W dniu 2020.11.01 o 12:22, Pablo Sebastian Greco pisze:
>> On 1/11/20 07:56, Chris Bell wrote:
>>> On Saturday, 31 October 2020 21:12:24 gmtpe...@kahn.nu  wrote:
>>>> Thanks so much for answering!
>>>> seems like I have to makee another installation!
>>>> Youre the best!
>>>>
>>>> /peter
>>> No you do not require two machines, shorewall and shorewall6 work
>>> together,
>>> and some of the configuration files can be shared. The problem is
>>> that IPv4 and
>>> IPv6 require different treatment, so some of the processing can't be
>>> shared.
>>
>> I normally try to symlink as much as I can from one to the other, and
>> I put all the IP specific things in "params", so even the rules file
>> could be shared.
>>
>> Pablo
>>
> Exactly. This is the correct approach. Simply you create symlinks from
> one configuration folder ex. from one well configured IPv4 shorewall
> /etc/shorewall/some_file to /etc/shorewall6/symlink_of_some_file. You
> may symlink rules file, tcrules and others. Overall, IPv6 traffic rules
> are very similar to IPv4 from a firewall point of view. Besides of
> course "the odd" IPv6 addressing :-)
> 
> 

See also (1).

1)  https://shorewall.org/SharedConfig.html

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