installing shorewall

[Tarkin]

Hallo,
I just decided to replace my linuxrouter by a small linux embedded wl500g and all wents right until I tried to set up firewall-roules... I've spent up to 8 hours yesterday and finaly I've restore all changes to get it working again ;-)

Since I'm using Linux, I'm using Shorewall as firewall on all of my computers. I've seen a firmware-image for the linksys wrt54g comming with shorewall installed.

Is there any firmware for the wl500g providing shorewall too? - If not, where can I find a Howto, how to install (compile) it - based on the source-package from http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ ?

Thx,
Arne

[Oleg]

If not, where can I find a Howto, how to install (compile) it - based on the source-package from http://wl500g.dyndns.org/ ?

On the same page. See recompiling section.

I would suggest you to manipulate iptables directly, rather than "playing" with shorewall.

[Tarkin]

thx for replay. Maybe you're right and setting up an iptable skript will be the faster (and better) way. On the ower hand shorewall is a very simple but powerfull tool to set up firewall, routing and so on... it would be nice to have it on wl500g too.

In addition I would like to say, that I have read the "recompiling" section and compiled the package succesfull ;-) But I'm still not familiar with the toolset... copy the additional Packages to the "router"-directory in buildpath and modifiying config/Config-File and so on... haven't found a howto on this yet.

Arne