Hi! I once set up a website with firewall and all for a class and now I'm doing it again in my home for hosting a joomla webpage. I am using most of the stuff that I learned to use during the class and I still remember how to setup everything. The problem is that when I saw the new version of shorewall they changed some significant stuff in the firewall. The thing that is giving me the most problems is the interfaces. I've searched all over the shorewall.net website to see if I can find anyway to configure it and I have not found anything. So, if anyone can explain to me how to setup shorewall I'll be thankful. I am currently using webmin for setting up shorewall (it makes it sooo much easier).

Doesn't anybody here use Shorewall?

Tell us what's the setup?

Ok. I am unsure of what zones I have to create. I know the Local and net zones are a must (they already come created in this version.) but I used to create the eth0 as a zone and now the website says that the iproute2 file treates the lan card diferently and not as an interface. So I don't know if the card should be created as a zone and linked to an interface or if the local zone has pretty much merged these two things. There is not a single part (as far as I've seen) on the guides that talks about setting up the interfaces, it just makes refence to it with vague comments. That's essentially my confusion. Version 3 won't let me use the configuration I normally used.

Edit: Also, just so you know: I want to make the firewall protect a computer that's connected to a router and the router to the cable modem. I'm not trying to make it a bridge between other computers or anything like that. It's just a simple configuration for a web server I made.