
 Default Firewall and IP Filter 0.0.1 Aug 17 2009

 Copyright (c) 2003-2009 ACTi Corporation
 All rights reserved.


 OVERVIEW
 --------

 The Firewall project are assembled with two components : 

 DefaultRules :
    These rules defines the default firewall rules included abnormal
    TCP packets prevention and rate controlled per protocol.

 IPFilter :
    These rules defines which area of network are allowed to connect
    to this device, or inversly now allow to.

 For more detail you can open 
 <Firewall/doc/Iptables program doc rev#.ppt> .
        
 INSTALLATION
 -----------

 Type the following command will install the Firewall compnents into 
 flash root file system.

     TARGET=`pwd`/rootfs make
       or
     TARGET=`pwd`/rootfs make -C CommonLibs/Firewall

 You will find the DefaultRules.sh and IPFilter.sh are installed under 
 <rootfs/usr/sbin>, DefaultRules.conf and IPFilter.conf under 
 <rootfs/etc>.

 INTEGRATION
 --------

 How to use these two components ? Please open <Firewall/example/test.c> for
 the further more details. in a summary you need to provide the device-
 configuration valus and to write in as a .conf file.

 The <Firewall/DefaultRules/DefaultRules.conf> and 
 <Firewall/IPFilter/IPFilter.conf> are used as the default template rules.
 Normally your streaming program should overwrite these two files during 
 the initial. 


 PROBLEMS
 --------

 For some platforms, there are some known problems that may affect the user
 or application author.  We try to collect those in PROBLEMS, with current
 thoughts on how they should be solved in a future.

 SUPPORT 
 -------

 If you have any problems with this project then please take the following 
 steps first:

    - Check-out the current snapshot from 
         (http://172.16.5.24/svn/repos/CommonLibs/Firewall)
      or Update it to the newest if you've already check-out before.

      to see if the problem has already been addressed
    - Check the Makefile to see the path.

 MAINTAINER
 ----------

 Please feed suggestions, bug reports, insults, and bribes back to 
 the maintainer:
    Skyter Lin
    <skyter.lin@acti.com>

