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Someone once told me to install shorewall-perl; anything to that?

April 26, 2017install shorewall-perl

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Someone once told me to install shorewall-perl; anything to that?

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That was good advice in Shorewall 4.2 and earlier. In those releases, there were two packages that provided the basic firewalling functionality: shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.0, shorewall-shell is discontinued and shorewall-perl is renamed shorewall.