Received: from smtp-auth.no-ip.com (smtp-auth.no-ip.com [158.247.7.224]) by gbr-app-1.alpinelinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0DB2821F7B0 for <~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org>; Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:46:02 +0000 (UTC) X-No-IP: flyn.org@noip-smtp X-Report-Spam-To: abuse@no-ip.com Received: from www.flyn.org (unknown [137.26.240.243]) (Authenticated sender: flyn.org@noip-smtp) by smtp-auth.no-ip.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4dyx092LVLz7tgq; Sat, 24 Jan 2026 13:46:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from imp.flyn.org (guardian.flyn.org [137.26.240.242]) by www.flyn.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8432B1EE002D; Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:45:59 -0600 (CST) Received: by imp.flyn.org (Postfix, from userid 1101) id 664BA3C75BB3; Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:45:59 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 07:45:59 -0600 From: "W. Michael Petullo" To: ~alpine/devel@lists.alpinelinux.org Cc: Prabu Anand Kalivaradhan , Sagar Acharya Subject: Re: Preferred firewall Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: > The wiki page https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How-To_Alpine_Wall has been > updated. Thank you for the updates to the documentation, Prabu. I have some points to consider about the changes: (1) Under "Activating/Applying a Policy" is "awall enable test-policy". I think that should be "awall enable home-policy", since the example has the policy definition in "home-policy.json". (2) I like that you compared AWall to Shorewall, but a reader might not be familiar with Shorewall. You could make this more clear with the following changes: + [Add the following immediately after the "Configuration files" heading] This guide shows how to configure a firewall using AWall. Also shown are comparable Shorewall configurations, as Shorewall is another firewall configuration tool used in many applications. This comparison is meant to help readers who are familiar with Shorewall learn AWall. You should follow the AWall examples. Use the Shorewall examples as contextual references, or ignore them if unfamiliar with Shorewall. and - [Remove] The below example shows the "Basic home firewall" configuration for both Shorewall and AWall. Based on below example, it can be clearly seen that AWall Policy files are not equivalent to Shorewall's /etc/shorewall/policy files. + [Replace with] The examples below show how to configure a basic home firewall using AWall. Note that AWall Policy files differ substantially from Shorewall's /etc/shorewall/policy files in syntax and layout. and - [Remove] Let's suppose you have the following Shorewall configuration: + [Replace with] Let's suppose you have the following Shorewall configuration, which you want to convert to a configuration for AWall. Thanks again! -- Mike :wq