On 3/22/2015 4:15 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015, at 03:52 PM, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Which distros do you run?
> 
> In no particular order or quantities, last check shows we've got 
> server/project instances of 
> Centos, RedFlag, Fermi, Mageia, Debian, Poseidon, Gentoo, Arch, Fedora, 
> Finnix, Mandriva, openSUSE, Mint, Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat, EnGarde, ClearOS, 
> Oracle, Scientific, Kali, Knoppix & Raspbian.

You're going to have lots of fun understanding how to make
Shorewall-init work on all of those.

> 
> Some there's got lots of, some not, for sure.  Most are Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu 
> & Debain, with a bunch of Centos & openSUSE around.  And of course different 
> versions of each.
> 
> Bleedin' nightmare if you ask me, but the servers aren't generally my 
> responsibility or in my control.  But the security on those server is soon 
> going to be.  And firewall's obviously one part of that.
> 
> What I do know is that I want one version of firewall, with similar if not 
> the same versions of iptables & ipset, and it all centrally managed.

Remember that iptables and ipset generally have a kernel version
dependency. So just because a particular version of one of those CLIs
supports a given feature, that feature can still depend on the kernel
version.

> 
> Ideally, in a single, locally built, tarball that I can deploy to any machine 
> with a similar arch into a well contined /opt/shorewall or 
> /usr/local/shorewall, install the systemd service files (or init files for 
> the laggards), and execute it, and upgrade it from central mgmt.
> 

You might be able to install Shorewall-init into a well-contained
environment, but it won't do anything. It depends on being installed
with the name and location required by the distribution's
interface-management software.

Why do you believe that you need Shorewall-init?

-Tom
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