Initial setup and configuration

Some confusion with initial setup of the latest version, but I carefully 
copied the files "interfaces", "policy", "rules", and "zones" from the 
"Universal" sample configuration into "/etc/shorewall/" and 
"/etc/shorewall6" and set "STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes" in shorewall.conf and 
shorewall6.conf. Then added the specific rules for ports to allow 
incoming connections.

 > Important
 > Please don't use distribution specific programs like "service" or 
init scripts to start/restart Shorewall while trying to solve a problem, 
just follow carefully the instructions below.

That's okay but perhaps some explanation of what shorewall is and what 
it isn't might be in order, if "iptables made easy" isn't understandable 
to the common folk, or if shorewall itself isn't a collection of service 
and init scripts intended to manage iptables, it certainly pulled in 
enough perl dependencies for that when I installed it. That's the point 
of running it, to use the managed "policy" and "rules" etc. to configure 
the Linux kernel firewall.

I want to see a working basic "Universal" type sample firewall installed 
and running by default on all Linux systems, especially any that are 
exposed to the internet. Management port(s) and/or basic web so I don't 
get locked out, allow outgoing connections for DNS and system updates 
whatever is needed and nothing else.

Distribution and packaging. Whatever sort of software or computer 
program it is, make it work for the average customer's basic use case 
from the get-go, explain clearly and simply how it does work and don't 
make me futz with it to get a working configuration. Life is too brief 
and troublesome, and too many criminals and hackers and crackers with 
big guns, dirty knives, and advanced lock picking instruments are 
continually playing too many party pranks, practical jokes and dirty 
tricks with anything and everything security-related on the internet for 
that.