# Shorewall News and Announcements

Tom Eastep
Copyright © 2001-2008 Thomas M. Eastep

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March 29, 2008

2008-03-29 Shorewall 4.0.10

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.10.

    1)  Shorewall-perl 4.0.9 erroneously reported an error message when a
        bridge port was defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

         ERROR: Your iptables is not recent enough to support bridge ports

    2)  Under Shorewall-perl, if an empty action was invoked or was named
        in one of the DEFAULT_xxx options in shorewall.conf, an
        iptables-restore error occured.

    3)  If $ADMIN was empty, then the rule:

            ACCEPT loc:$ADMIN all

         became

            ACCEPT loc   net

         It is now flagged as an error.

    4)  Previously, Shorewall-perl would reject an IP address range in the
        ecn and routestopped files.

    5)  A POLICY of ":" in /etc/shorewall/policy would produce Perl
        run-time errors.

    6)  An INTERFACE of ":" in /etc/shorewall/interfaces would produce Perl
        run-time errors.

    7)  A MARK of ":" in /etc/shorewall/tcrules would produce Perl
        run-time errors.

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-shell 4.0.10.

    1)  Specifying a value for ACCEPT_DEFAULT or QUEUE_DEFAULT resulted in
        a fatal error at compile time.

    Known Problems Remaining.

    1)  The 'refresh' command doesn't refresh the mangle table. So changes
        made to /etc/shorewall/providers and/or /etc/shorewall/tcrules may
        not be reflected in the running ruleset.

    Other changes in 4.0.10.

    1)  The Sample configurations have been updated to set
        LOG_MARTIANS=keep. In 4.2, this will be changed to
        LOG_MARTIANS=Yes.

    2)  Shorewall-perl now generates a fatal error if a non-existant shell
        variable is used in any configuration file (except
        /etc/shorewall/params).

    3)  Shorewall-perl now supports an 'l2tp' tunnel type. It opens UDP
        port 1701 in both directions and assumes that the source port will
        also be 1701. Some implementations (particularly OS X) use a
        different source port. In that case, you should use
        'generic:udp:1701' rather than 'l2tp'.

2008-03-01 Shorewall 3.4.8

    1)  Shorewall now removes any default bindings of ipsets before
        attempting to reload them. Previously, default bindins were not
        removed with the result that the ipsets could not be destroyed.

    2)  When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, unpredictable results could occur when
        marking in the PREROUTING or OUTPUT chains. When a rule specified a
        mark value > 255, the compiler was using the '--or-mark' operator
        rather than the '--set-mark' operator with the result that when a
        packet matched more than one rule, the resulting routing mark was
        the logical product of the mark values in the rules.

        Example:

            0x100   192.168.1.44    0.0.0.0/0
            0x200   0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       tcp     25

        A TCP packet from 192.168.1.44 with destination port 25 would end
        up with a mark value of 0x300.

    3)  Shorewall now properly parses comma separated SOURCE (formerly
        SUBNET) values in the masq configuration file.  Previously, the comma
        separated list was not split up into its components, resulting in an
        invalid address being passed to the iptables command.

        Example:

            # /etc/shorewall/masq
            #INTERFACE  SUBNET                   ADDRESS  PROTO  PORT(S)  IPSEC
            eth0        192.168.2.1,192.168.2.3

    4)  Previously, specifying both an interface and a MAC address in the
        SOURCE column of the tcrules file caused a failure at runtime.
        Thanks to Justin Joseph for the patch.

    5)  Previously, specifying both an interface and an address in the
        tcrules DEST column would cause an incomplete rule to be generated.

        Example:

        1   192.168.1.4     eth2:206.124.146.177    tcp     22

        The resulting tcrule would be as if this had been specified:

        1   0.0.0.0/0       eth2:206.124.146.177    tcp     22

    6)  When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, the routing rules generated to match
        fwmarks to routing tables overflowed the designated range for such
        marks (10000 - 11000).

2008-02-23 Shorewall 4.0.9

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.9.1

    1)  In 4.0.9, Shorewall-perl incorrectly generated the following error
        message:

        ERROR: Your iptables is not recent enough to support bridge ports

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.9

    1)  If a zone was defined with exclusion in /etc/shorewall/hosts, then
        the rules generated for directing outgoing connections to the zone
        were incorrect.

        Example:

        /etc/shorewall/zones:

        z   ipv4

        /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

        -   eth2

        /etc/shorewall/hosts:

        z   eth2:192.168.1.0/24!192.168.1.5

        Traffic from the firewall to 192.168.1.5 was incorrectly classified
        as $FW->z.

    2)  Qualifying 'SOURCE' and 'DEST' with an IP address in a macro file
        caused 'SOURCE' or 'DEST' to be interpreted incorrectly as the name
        of an interface.

        Example:

            PARAM   DEST    SOURCE:224.0.0.22

    3)  Specifying '!<user>' in the USER/GROUP column of the files that
        support it resulted in an invalid iptables rule under
        Shorewall-perl.

    4)  Previously, Shorewall would accept both an interface and an IP
        address in tcrules POSTROUTING entries (such as CLASSIFY).

        Example:

        1:11      eth1:192.168.4.9  -       tcp     22

        It also allowed both a destination interface and address.

        Example:

        1:P       -         eth1:192.168.4.9        tcp     22

        Because Netfilter does not allow an input interface to be specified
        in POSTROUTING or an output interface to be specified in
        PREROUTING, Shorewall must use the routing table to generate a list
        of networks accessed through any interface specified in these
        cases. Given that a specific address (or set of addresses) has
        already been specified, it makes no sense qualify it (them) by
        another list of addresses.

    5)  Shorewall-perl incorrectly generated a fatal error when ':C',
        ':T' or ':CT' was used in a tcrules entry that gave $FW as the
        SOURCE.

    6)  Users have been confused about this error message:

        ERROR: Bridge Ports require Repeat match in your kernel and iptables

        The message has been replaced with:

        ERROR:  Your iptables is not recent enough to support bridge ports

        The minimum version required is 1.3.8.

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-shell 4.0.9.

    1)  An optimization added to Shorewall-shell in 4.0.0 has been backed
        out to work around a limitation of Busybox 'sed'.

    2)  Previously, specifying both an interface and an address in the
        tcrules DEST column would cause an incomplete rule to be generated.

        Example:

        1   192.168.1.4     eth2:206.124.146.177    tcp     22

        The resulting tcrule would be as if this had been specified:

        1   0.0.0.0/0       eth2:206.124.146.177    tcp     22

    3)  When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, the routing rules generated to match
        fwmarks to routing tables previously overflowed the designated
        range defined for such marks (10000 - 11000).

    Known Problems Remaining.

    1)  The 'refresh' command doesn't refresh the mangle table. So changes
        made to /etc/shorewall/providers and/or /etc/shorewall/tcrules may
        not be reflected in the running ruleset.

    Other changes in 4.0.9.

    1)  The Shorewall-perl now flags unprintable garbage characters in
        configuration files with the message:

            ERROR: Non-ASCII gunk in file

    2)  The /usr/share/shorewall/modules file has been updated to reflect
        module renaming in kernel 2.6.25.

    3)  The 'ip route replace' command is broken in kernel 2.6.24. To work
        around this problem, the undocumented option BROKEN_ROUTING has
        been added to shorewall.conf. The default is BROKEN_ROUTING=No.

        If you are experiencing 'File Exists' errors from 'ip route
        replace' commands, then add the following line to your
        shorewall.conf:

            BROKEN_ROUTING=Yes

        Note: This workaround is only available in Shorewall-perl.

2008-01-25 Shorewall 4.0.8

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.8.

    1)  Mark tests (such as in the TEST column of tcrules or the MARK
        column of the rules file) were ignoring the value 0. As part of
        this fix, the default mask generated by entries in these columns
        has been changed from 0xFF to 0xFFFF for compatibility with
        Shorewall-shell.

    2)  The compilation date recorded in the firewall.conf file produced by
        Shorewall-perl was previously mangled.

    3)  The ability to specify a DEST IP range (round-robin) in a DNAT rule
        has been restored. In versions 4.0.5 - 4.0.7, an IP range was
        incorrectly flagged as an error.

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-shell 4.0.8.

    1)  Shorewall-shell now properly parses comma separated SOURCE (formerly
        SUBNET) values in the masq configuration file.  Previously, the comma
        separated list was not split up into its components, resulting in an
        invalid address being passed to the iptables command.

        Example:

            # /etc/shorewall/masq
            #INTERFACE  SUBNET                   ADDRESS  PROTO  PORT(S)  IPSEC
            eth0        192.168.2.1,192.168.2.3

    Known Problems Remaining.

    1)  The 'refresh' command doesn't refresh the mangle table. So changes
        made to /etc/shorewall/providers and/or /etc/shorewall/tcrules may
        not be reflected in the running ruleset.

    Other changes in 4.0.8.

    None.

2007-12-26 Shorewall 4.0.7

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.7

    1)  If any of the following files was missing, a harmless Perl warning
        was issued:

           accounting
           maclist
           masq
           nat
           netmap
           rfc1918
           routestopped
           tunnels

        This problem was experienced mostly by Debian users and users of
        Debian derivatives such as Ubuntu.

    2)  The iptables utility doesn't retry operations that fail due to
        resource shortage. Beginning with this release, Shorewall reruns
        iptables when such a failure occurs.

    3)  Previously, Shorewall-perl did not accept log levels in upper case
        (e.g., INFO). Beginning with 4.0.7, log levels are treated in a
        case-insensitive manner by Shorewall-perl.

    4)  The column headers in macro files were not aligned. This has been
        corrected, along with some inaccuracies in the macro.template file.

    5)  The shorewall.conf files in the Samples did not contain some
        recently-defined options. They are now up to date.

    6)  The names of the Jabber macros were shuffled. They are now named
        correctly.

    7)  If ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes, an alias was incorrectly added when the
        specified INTERFACE ended with ":" (e.g., eth0:).

    8)  Shorewall-shell generated an incorrect iptables rule from the
        following:

        /etc/shorewall/rules:

        ACCEPT     loc:eth0:~00-02-02-02-02-02  ...

        /etc/shorewall/tcrules:

        xxxx        eth0:~00-02-02-02-02-02 ...

    Known Problems Remaining.

    1)  The 'refresh' command doesn't refresh the mangle table. So changes
        made to /etc/shorewall/providers and/or /etc/shorewall/tcrules may
        not be reflected in the running ruleset.

    Other changes in 4.0.7

    1)  If the program named in SHOREWALL_SHELL doesn't exist or is not
        executable, Shorewall and Shorewall-lite now both fall back to
        /bin/sh after issuing a warning message. Previously, both
        terminated with a fatal error.

    2)  The error message has been improved when a non-root user attempts
        "shorewall show capabilities".

    3)  Shorewall-perl now generates fatal error conditions when there are
        no IPv4 zones defined and when there are no interfaces defined.

2007-12-26 Shorewall 4.1.3

    Problems corrected in Shorewall 4.1.3.

    1)  If NFLOG or ULOG was specified with parameters, the resulting
        iptables-restore input contained elements that were incorrectly
        up-cased.

    2)  If STARTUP_LOG is specified without LOG_VERBOSITY, /sbin/shorewall
        produces an error.

    3)  If LOG_VERBOSITY is specified without STARTUP_LOG, run-time error
        messages are produced.

    4)  Shorewall-shell was mishandling the entries in /etc/shorewall/rules
        and in /etc/shorewall/tcrules where both a SOURCE interface and MAC
        address were specified.

        Example:

        ACCEPT      net:eth0:~01-02-03-04-05-06    $FW      tcp     22

    Other changes in Shorewall 4.1.3.

    1)  If the program named in SHOREWALL_SHELL doesn't exist or is not
        executable, Shorewall and Shorewall-lite now both fall back to
        /bin/sh after issuing a warning message. Previously, both
        terminated with a fatal error.

    2)  The error message has been improved when a non-root user attempts
        "shorewall show capabilities".

    3)  Shorewall-perl now generates fatal error conditions when there are
        no IPv4 zones defined and when there are no interfaces defined.

    4)  Shorewall now unconditionally uses tc filter rules to classify
        traffic by MARK value. Previously, Shorewall used the CLASSIFY
        target in the POSTROUTING chain if it was available.

    5)  The Shorewall-common installer (install.sh) now works on Windows
        under Cygwin.

        To install Shorewall-perl under Cygwin:

        $ tar -xf shorewall-perl-4.1.3.tar.bz2
        $ tar -xf shorewall-common-4.1.3.tar.bz2
        $ cd shorewall-perl-4.1.3
        $ ./install.sh
        $ cd ../shorewall-common-4.1.3
        $ USER=<your user id> GROUP=None ./install.sh

        The 'shorewall' program is installed in /bin/ (a.k.a, /usr/bin/).

2007-11-23 Shorewall 4.0.6

    Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.0.6.

    1)  In a DNAT or REDIRECT rule, if no serverport was given and the DEST
        PORT(S) list contained a service name containing a hyphen ("-") then
        an ERROR was generated.

        Example -- Rules file:

            DNAT    net     loc:$WINDOWS_IP tcp     https,pptp,ms-wbt-server,4125

        Results in:

            ERROR: Invalid port range (ms:wbt:server) : rules (line 49)

        Problem was introduced in Shorewall 4.0.5 and does not occur in
        earlier releases.

    2)  If a long destination port list needed to be broken at a port pair,
        the generated rule contained an extra comma which resulted in an
        iptables-restore failure.

    3)  Several problems involving port ranges and port lists in REDIRECT
        rules have been corrected.

    4)  Shorewall-perl no longer requires an address in the GATEWAY column
        of /etc/shorewall/tunnels. If the column is left empty (or contains
        '-') then 0.0.0.0/0 is assumed.

    5)  Previously with Shorewall-perl, redirecting both STDOUT and STDERR
        to the same file descriptor resulted in scrambled output between
        the two. The error messages were often in the middle of the
        regular output far ahead of the point where the error occurred.

        This problem was possible in the Debian Shorewall init script
        (/etc/init.d/shorewall) which redirects output to the
        Debian-specific /var/log/shorewall-init.log file in this way:

            $SRWL $SRWL_OPTS start >> $INITLOG 2>&1 && ...

    6)  With both compilers, when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, unpredictable
        results could occur when marking in the PREROUTING or OUTPUT
        chains. When a rule specified a mark value > 255, the compilers
        were using the '--or-mark' operator rather than the '--set-mark'
        operator. Consequently, when a packet matched more than one
        rule, the resulting routing mark was the logical product of the
        mark values in the matching rules rather than the mark value from
        the last matching rule.

        Example:

            0x100   192.168.1.44    0.0.0.0/0
            0x200   0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       tcp     25

        A TCP packet from 192.168.1.44 with destination port 25 would have
        a  mark value of 0x300 rather than the expected value of 0x200.

    7)  Previously, a 'start -f' on Shorewall Lite would produce the
        following distressing output before starting the firewall:

        make: *** No rule to make target `/firewall', needed by
        `/var/lib/shorewall-lite/restore'.  Stop.

        Furthermore, the Makefile for both Shorewall and Shorewall Lite
        failed to take into account the /etc/shorewall/vardir file.

        This has been corrected. As part of the fix, both /sbin/shorewall
        and /sbin/shorewall-lite support a "show vardir" command that
        displays the VARDIR setting.

    8)  Shorewall-perl was previously ignoring the USER/GROUP column of the
        tcrules file.

    9)  Supplying the name of a built-in chain in the 'refresh' command
        caused entries in the chain to be duplicated. Since this is a
        feature of iptables-restore with the '-n' option, built-in chains
        in the 'refresh' list will now be rejected.

    Known Problems Remaining.

    1)  The 'refresh' command doesn't refresh the mangle table. So changes
        made to /etc/shorewall/providers and/or /etc/shorewall/tcrules may
        not be reflected in the running ruleset.

    Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.6.

    1)  Shorewall-perl now uses the '--physdev-is-bridged' option when it
        is available. This option will suppress messages like the following:

        kernel: physdev match: using --physdev-out in the OUTPUT, FORWARD and
        POSTROUTING chains for non-bridged traffic is not supported
        anymore.

        This change only affects users who use bport/bport4 zones in a
        briged configuration and requires that capabilities files be
        regenerated using Shorewall-common or Shorewall-lite 4.0.6.

    2)  Shorewall-perl now allows you to embed Shell or Perl scripts in
        all configuration files except /etc/shorewall/params and
        /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf (As always, you can continue to
        include arbitrary shell code in /etc/shorewall/params).

        To embed a one-line script, use one of the following:

            SHELL <shell script>
            PERL <perl script>

        For multi-line scripts, use:

            BEGIN SHELL
            <shell script>
            END SHELL

            BEGIN PERL
            <perl script>
            END PERL

        For SHELL scripts, the output from the script is processed as if it
        were part of the file.

        Example 1 (Shell): To generate SMTP/ACCEPT rules from zones a b c d
        and e to the firewall:

            Either:

                BEGIN SHELL
                for z in a b c d e; do
                    echo SMTP/ACCEPT $z fw tcp 25
                done
                END SHELL

            or

                SHELL for z in a b c d e; do echo SMTP/ACCEPT $z fw tcp 25; done

        Either is equivalent to:

            SMTP/ACCEPT a fw tcp 25
            SMTP/ACCEPT b fw tcp 25
            SMTP/ACCEPT c fw tcp 25
            SMTP/ACCEPT d fw tcp 25
            SMTP/ACCEPT e fw tcp 25

        With a Perl script, if you want to output text to be processed as
        if it were part of the file, then pass the text to the shorewall()
        function.

        Example 2 (Perl): To generate SMTP/ACCEPT rules from zones a b c d
        and e to the firewall:

              BEGIN PERL
              for ( qw/a b c d e/ ) {
                  shorewall "SMTP/ACCEPT $_ fw tcp 25";
              }
              END PERL

        PERL scripts have access to any context accumulated in earlier PERL
        scripts. All such embedded Perl, as well as conventional Perl
        extension scripts are placed in the Shorewall::User package. That
        way, your global variables and functions won't conflict with any of
        Shorewall's.

        To allow you to load Perl modules and initialize any global state,
        a new 'compile' compile-time extension script has been added. It is
        called early in the compilation process.

        For additional information, see

        - http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.html#Embedded

    3)  To complement Embedded Perl scripts, Shorewall 4.0.6 allows Perl
        scripts to create filter chains using
        Shorewall::Chains::new_manual_chain() and then use the chain as a
        target in subsequent entries in /etc/shorewall/rules.

        See http://www.shorewall.net/ManualChains.html for information.

    4)  The 'hits' command now accepts a -t option which limits the report
        to those log records generated today.

    5)  A DONT_LOAD option has been added to shorewall.conf. If there are
        kernel modules that you don't wish to have loaded, you can list
        them in this entry as a comma-separated list.

        Example:

            DONT_LOAD=nf_conntrack_sip,nf_nat_sip

    6)  Shorewall-perl now supports the --random option of the iptables
        SNAT, MASQUERADE, DNAT and REDIRECT targets. Please note that
        iptables support for this option is currently broken for the DNAT
        and REDIRECT targets; I've sent a patch to the Netfilter team.

        For MASQUERADE, simply place the word 'random' in the ADDRESS
        column. This causes Netfilter to randomize the source port seen by
        the remote host.

         Example:

            #INTERFACE      SOURCE  ADDRESS
            eth0            eth1    random

        For SNAT, follow the port list by ":random".

        Example:

            #INTERFACE      SOURCE  ADDRESS
            eth0            eth1    206.124.146.179:10000-10999:random

        For DNAT, follow the port list by ":random".

        Example:

            #ACTION SOURCE  DEST                            PROTO   DEST
            #                                               PORT(S)
            DNAT    net     loc:192.168.1.4:40-50:random    tcp     22

        For REDIRECT, you must use the fully-qualified form of the DEST:

            #ACTION   SOURCE        DEST                    PROTO   DEST
            #                                               PORT(S)
            REDIRECT        net     $FW::40-50:random       tcp     22

        Note that ':random' is only effective with SNAT, DNAT and REDIRECT
        when a port range is specified in the ADDRESS/DEST column. It is
        ignored by iptables/iptables-restore otherwise.

2007-10-22 Shorewall 4.0.5

    Problems corrected in Shorewall 4.0.5.

    1)  Previously, Shorewall-perl misprocessed $FW::<port> in the DEST
        column of a REDIRECT rule, generating an error. '$FW::<port>' now
        produces the same effect as '<port>'.

    2)  If the PROTOCOL (PROTO) column contained 'TCP' or 'UDP' and SOURCE
        PORT(S) or DEST PORT(S) were given, then Shorewall-perl rejected
        the entry with the error:

        ERROR: SOURCE/DEST PORT(S) not allowed with PROTO TCP : /etc/shorewall/rules

        The rule was accepted if 'tcp' or 'udp' was used instead.

    3)  Shorewall-shell now removes any default bindings of ipsets before
        attempting to reload them. Previously, default bindings were not
        removed with the result that the ipsets could not be destroyed.

    Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.5.

    1)  Two new options have been added to /etc/shorewall/hosts
        (Shorewall-perl only).

        broadcast: Permits limited broadcast (destination 255.255.255.255)
                   to the zone.

        destonly: Normally used with the Multi-cast range. Specifies that
                  traffic will be sent to the specified net(s) but that
                  no traffic will be received from the net(s).

        Example:

        wifi        eth1:192.168.3.0/24             broadcast
        wifi        eth1:224.0.0.0/4                destonly

        In that example, limited broadcasts from the firewall with a source
        IP in the 192.168.3.0/24 range will be acccepted as will multicasts
        (with any source address).

    2)  A MULTICAST option has been added to shorewall.conf. This option
        will normally be set to 'No' (the default). It should be set to
        'Yes' under the following circumstances:

        a) You have an interface that has parallel zones defined via
           /etc/shorewall/hosts.
        b) You want to forward multicast packets to two or more of those
           parallel zones.

        In such cases, you will configure a 'destonly' network on each
        zone receiving multicasts.

        The MULTICAST option is only recognized by Shorewall-perl and is
        ignored by Shorewall-shell.

    3)  As announced in the Shorewall 4.0.4 release notes, Shorewall-perl
        no longer supports the 'detectnets' option. Specifying that option
        now results in the following message:

        WARNING: Support for the 'detectnets' option has been removed

        It is suggested that 'detectnets' be replaced by
        'routefilter,logmartians'. That will produce the same filtering
        effect as 'detectnets' while eliminating 1-2 rules per connection.

        One user has asked how to retain the output of 'shorewall show
        zones' if the 'detectnets' option is removed. While I don't advise
        doing so, you can reproduce the current 'shorewall show' behavior
        as follows.

        Suppose that you have a zone named 'wifi' that produces the
        following output with 'detectnets':

        wifi (ipv4)
          eth1:192.168.3.0/24

        You can reproduce this behavior as follows:

        /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

        -   eth1    detect  ...

        /etc/shorewall/hosts:

        wifi        eth1:192.168.3.0/24     broadcast

        If you send multicast to the 'wifi' zone, you also need this entry
        in your hosts file:

        wifi        eth1:224.0.0.0/4                destonly

    4)  (Shorewall-perl only) The server port in a DNAT or REDIRECT rule
        may now be specified as a service name from
        /etc/services. Additionally:

        a) A port-range may be specified as the service port expressed in
           the format <low port>-<high port>. Connections are assigned to
           server ports in round-robin fashion.

        b) The compiler only permits a server port to be specified if the
           protocol is tcp or udp.

        c) The compiler ensures that the server IP address is valid (note
           that it is still not permitted to specify the server address as a
           DNS name).

    5)  (Shorewall-perl only) Users are complaining that when they migrate
        to Shorewall-perl, they have to restrict their port lists to 15
        ports. In this release, we relax that restriction on destination
        port lists. Since the SOURCE PORT(s) column in the configuration
        files is rarely used, we have no plans to relax the restriction in
        that column.

    6)  There have been several cases where iptables-restore has failed
        while executing a COMMIT command in the .iptables_restore_input
        file. This gives neither the user nor Shorewall support much to go
        on when analyzing the problem. As a new debugging aid, the meaning
        of 'trace' and 'debug' have been changed.

        Traditionally, /sbin/shorewall and /sbin/shorewall-lite have
        allowed either 'trace' or 'debug' as the first run-line
        parameter. Prior to 4.0.5, the two words produced the same effect.

        Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.5, the two words have different
        effects when Shorewall-perl is used.

        trace - Like the previous behavior.

                In the Shorewall-perl compiler, generate a stack trace
                on WARNING and ERROR messages.

                In the generated script, sets the shell's -x option to
                trace execution of the script.

        debug - Ignored by the Shorewall-perl compiler.

                In the generated script, causes the commands in
                .iptables_restore_input to be executed as discrete iptables
                commands. The failing command can thus be identified and a
                diagnosis of the cause can be made.

        Users of Shorewall-lite will see the following change when using a
        script that was compiled with Shorewall-perl 4.0.5 or later.

        trace - In the generated script, sets the shell's -x option to
                trace execution of the script.

        debug - In the generated script, causes the commands in
                .iptables_restore_input to be executed as discrete iptables
                commands. The failing command can thus be identified and a
                diagnosis of the cause can be made.

        In all other cases, 'debug' and 'trace' remain synonymous. In
        particular, users of Shorewall-shell will see no change in
        behavior.

        WARNING: The 'debug' feature in Shorewall-perl is strictly for
        problem analysis. When 'debug' is used:

        a) The firewall is made 'wide open' before the rules are applied.
        b) The routestopped file is not consulted and the rules are applied
           in the canonical iptables-restore order (ASCIIbetical by chain).
           So if you need critical hosts to be always available during
           start/restart, you may not be able to use 'debug'.

    7)  /usr/share/shorewall-perl/buildports.pl,
        /usr/share/shorewall-perl/FallbackPorts.pm and
        /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm have been removed.

        Shorewall now resolves protocol and port names as using Perl's
        interface to the the standard C library APIs getprotobyname() and
        getservbyname().

        Note 1:

               The protocol names 'tcp', 'TCP', 'udp', 'UDP', 'all', 'ALL',
               'icmp' and 'ICMP' are still resolved by Shorewall-perl
               itself.

        Note 2:

               Those of you running Shorewall-perl under Cygwin may wish to
               install "real" /etc/protocols and /etc/services files
               in place of the symbolic links installed by Cygwin.

    8)  The contents of the Shorewall::*::$VERSION variables are now a
        only of interest for Perl programs that are using the modules and
        specifying a minimum version (e.g., "use Shorewall::Config
        4.0.5;"). Each module continues to carry a separate version which
        indicates the release of Shorewall-perl when the module was last
        modified

2007-10-02 Shorewall 3.4.7

    Problems Corrected in Shorewall 3.4.7

    1)  A bug prevented proper handling of PREROUTING marks when
        HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No and the track option was specified in
        /etc/shorewall/providers.

    2) Previously, if the following sequence of routing rules was
       specified, then the first rule would always be omitted.

       #SOURCE    DEST      PROVIDER     PRIORITY
       $SRC_A     $DESTIP1  ISP1         1000
       $SRC_A     $DESTIP2  SOMEISP      1000
       $SRC_A     -         ISP2         1000

       The reason for this omission was that Shorewall uses a
       delete-before-add approach and attempting to delete the third rule
       resulted in the deletion of the first one instead.

       This problem occurred with both compilers.

    3) When using Shorewall-shell, provider numbers were not recognized in
       the PROVIDER column of /etc/shorewall/route_rules.

2007-09-28 Shorewall 4.0.4

    Problems Corrected in Shorewall 4.0.4

    1)  If no interface had the 'blacklist' option, then when using
        Shorewall-perl, the 'start' and 'restart' command failed:

            ERROR: No filter chain found with name blacklst

        New Shorewall-perl 4.0.3 packages were released that corrected this
        problem; it is included here for completeness.

    2)  If no interface had the 'blacklist' option, then when using
        Shorewall-perl, the generated script would issue this harmless
        message during 'shorewall refresh':

            chainlist_reload: Not found

    3)  If /bin/sh was a light-weight shell such as ash or dash, then
        'shorewall refresh' failed.

    4)  During start/restart, the script generated by Shorewall-perl was
        clearing the proxy_arp flag on all interfaces; that is not the
        documented behavior.

    5)  If the module-init-tools package was not installed and
        /etc/shorewall/modules did not exist or was non-empty, then
        Shorewall-perl would fail with the message:

           ERROR: Can't run lsmod : /etc/shorewall/modules (line 0)

    6)  Shorewall-perl now makes a compile-time check to insure that
        iptables-restore exists and is executable. This check is made when
        the compiler is being run by root and the -e option is not
        given.

        Note that iptables-restore must reside in the same directory as the
        iptables executable specified by IPTABLES in shorewall.conf or
        located by the PATH in the event that IPTABLES is not specified.

    7)  When using Shorewall-perl, if an action was invoked with more than
        10 different combinations of log-levels/tags, some of those
        invocations would have incorrect logging.

    8)  Previously, when 'shorewall restore' was executed, the
        iptables-restore utility was always located using the PATH setting
        rather than the IPTABLES setting.

        With Shorewall-perl, the IPTABLES setting is now used to locate
        this utility during 'restore' as it is during the processing of
        other commands.

    9)  Although the shorewall.conf manpage indicates that the value
        'internal' is allowed for TC_ENABLED, that value was previously
        rejected ('Internal' was accepted).

    10) The meaning of the 'loose' provider option was accidentally reversed
        in Shorewall-perl. Rather than causing certain routing rules to be
        omitted when specified, it actually caused them to be added (these
        rules were omitted when the option was NOT specified).

    11) If the 'bridge' option was specified on an interface but there were
        no bport zones, then traffic originating on the firewall was not
        passed through the accounting chain.

    12) In commands such as:

           shorewall compile <directory>
           shorewall restart <directory>
           shorewall check <directory>

        if the name of the <directory> contained a period ("."), then
        Shorewall-perl would incorrectly substitute the current working
        directory for the name.

    13) Previously, if the following sequence of routing rules was
        specified, then the first rule would always be omitted.

        #SOURCE    DEST      PROVIDER     PRIORITY
        $SRC_A     $DESTIP1  ISP1         1000
        $SRC_A     $DESTIP2  SOMEISP      1000
        $SRC_A     -         ISP2         1000

        The reason for this omission was that Shorewall uses a
        delete-before-add approach and attempting to delete the third rule
        resulted in the deletion of the first one instead.

        This problem occurred with both compilers.

    14) When using Shorewall-shell, provider numbers were not recognized in
        the PROVIDER column of /etc/shorewall/route_rules.

    15) An off-by-one problem in Shorewall-perl caused the value 255 to be
        rejected in the MARK column of /etc/shorewall/tcclasses.

    16) When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, marks with values > 255 must be a
        multiple of 256. That restriction was being enforced by
        Shorewall-shell but not by Shorewall-perl. Shorewall-perl now also
        enforces this restriction.

    17) Using REDIRECT with a parameterized macro (e.g., DNS/REDIRECT)
        failed with an "Unknown interface" error when using Shorewall-perl.

    Other Changes in Shorewall 4.0.4

    1)  The detection of 'Repeat Match' has been improved. 'Repeat Match'
        is not a match at all but rather is a feature of recent versions of
        iptables that allows a particular match to be used multiple times
        within a single rule.

        Example:

          -A foo -m physdev --physdev-in eth0 -m physdev --physdev-out ...

        When using Shorewall-shell, the availability of 'Repeat Match' can
        speed up compilation very slightly.

    2)  Apparently recent Fedora releases are broken. The
        following sequence of commands demonstrates the problem:

        ip rule add from 1.1.1.1 to 10.0.0.0/8 priority 1000 table 5
        ip rule add from 1.1.1.1 to 0.0.0.0/0 priority 1000 table main
        ip rule del from 1.1.1.1 to 0.0.0.0/0 priority 1000

        The third command should fail but doesn't; instead, it incorrectly
        removes the rule added by the first command.
        To work around this issue, you can set DELETE_THEN_ADD=No in
        shorewall.conf which prevents Shorewall from deleting ip rules
        before attempting to add a similar rule.

    3)  When using Shorewall-perl, the following message is now issued if
        the 'detectnets' option is specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

        WARNING: Support for the 'detectnets' option will be removed from
        Shorewall-perl in version 4.0.5; better to use 'routefilter' and
        'logmartians

        The 'detect' options has always been rather silly. On input, it
        duplicates the function of 'routefilter'. On output, it is a no-op
        since traffic that doesn't match a route out of an interface won't
        be sent through that interface (duh!).

        Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.5, the warning message will read:

        WARNING: Support for the 'detectnets' option has been removed

2007-09-01 Shorewall 4.0.3

    Problems Corrected in 4.0.3

    1) Using the LOG target in the rules file could result in two LOG
       rules being generated by Shorewall-shell. Additionally, using an IP
       address range in a rule that performed logging could result in an
       invalid iptables command.

    2)  Shorewall now loads the act_police kernel module needed by traffic
        shaping.

    3)  Previously, "shorewall show -f capabilities" and "shorecap" omitted
        the "TCPMSS Match" capability. This made it appear to a compiler
        using a capabilities file that the TCPMSS Match capability was not
        available.

    4)  Previously, Shorewall would truncate long log prefixes to 29
        characters. This resulted in there being no space between the log
        prefix and the IN= part of the message.

        Example: fw2net:LOG:HTTPSoutIN= OUT=eth0

        Beginning with this release, Shorewall will truncate the prefix to
        28 bytes and add a trailing space.

        Example: fw2net:LOG:HTTPSou IN= OUT=eth0

    5)  Previously, if:

        - FASTACCEPT=No
        - The policy from Z1 to Z2 was CONTINUE
        - Neither Z1 nor Z2 had parent zones
        - There were no Z1->Z2 rules

        then connections from Z2->Z1 would fail even if there were
        rules/policies allowing them. This has been
        corrected.

    6)  The 'shorewall add' and 'shorewall delete' command would fail when:

        - The running configuration was compiled with Shorewall-perl.
        - The name of the interface specified in the command contained an
          embedded special character such as '.' or '-'.

        This problem was the result of the change in Shorewall 4.0.2 that
        removed the legacy mapping of interface names when embedding such
        names in a Netfilter chain name. To correct the problem, the
        pre-4.0.2 name mapping is restored when DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes.

    5)  A bug in Shorewall-shell prevented proper handling of PREROUTING
        marks when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No and the track option was specified
        in /etc/shorewall/providers.

    6)  With Shorewall-perl, if EXPORTPARAMS=Yes then INCLUDE directives in
        the params file would fail at script execution time with "INCLUDE:
        not found". This has been corrected.

    7)  Shorewall-perl was mis-sorting the zone list when zones were nested
        more than one deep.

    8)  Stale references to http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm have
        been removed from the config files (including samples). That URL
        has been replaced by the online manpages.

    Other Changes in 4.0.3

    1)  A script generated by Shorewall-perl now tries to modify/restore
        /etc/iproute2/rt_tables only if the file is writable. This prevents
        run-time errors when /etc is mounted read-only.

        A new KEEP_RT_TABLES option has been added to shorewall.conf. When
        set to Yes, this option prevents Shorewall from altering the
        /etc/iproute2/rt_tables database. The KEEP_RT_TABLES option is only
        recognized by Shorewall-perl and is ignored by Shorewall-shell.

    2)  Shorewall-perl now requires the FindBin Perl module.

    3)  When an optional provider is not available, a script generated by
        Shorewall-perl will no longer add the corresponding
        routing rules.

    4)  A new 'isusable' extension script has been added. This script
        allows you to extend the availability test that Shorewall performs
        on optional providers.

        Here's an example that uses ping to ensure that the default
        gateways through eth0 and eth1 are reachable:

        case $1 in
            eth0)
                ping -c 4 -I eth0 206.124.146.254 > /dev/null 2>&1
                return
               ;;
            eth1)
                ping -c 4 -I eth1 192.168.12.254 > /dev/null 2>&1
                return
                ;;
            *)
                # Assume we don't need to do any additional testing
                # for this interface beyond Shorewall's
                return 0
                ;;
        esac

        Additional information is available at
        http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_extension_scripts.htm.

    5)  Processing of the message log in the 'show log', 'logwatch' and
        'dump' commands has been speeded up thanks to a suggestion by
        Andrew Suffield.

    6)  Beginning with Shorewall 4.0, the shorewall 'stop', and 'clear'
        commands were processed by the generated script from the
        last successful 'start', 'restart' or 'refresh' command. This had
        the side effect that updates to the /etc/shorewall/routestopped
        file did not take effect until one of those three commands was
        successfully processed.

        Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.3, the old 3.x behavior is restored as
        the default and the 4.0 behavior is enabled using the '-f' command
        option.

        Example: shorewall stop -f

        is only recognized by Shorewall-perl and causes Shorewall to set
        the MSS field in forwarded TCP SYN packets going in or out the
        interface to the value that you specify.

        Example:

        #ZONE       INTERFACE       BROADCAST       OPTIONS
        vpn         ppp0            -               mss=1400

        The mss option only affects incoming traffic that has not been
        decrypted by IPSEC and outgoing traffic that will not subsequently
        be encrypted by IPSEC. The MSS for IPSEC traffic is managed by the
        'mss' option in /etc/shorewall/zones.

    8)  Shorewall now detects the presence of the 'hashlimit match'
        capability. There is no builtin support yet for hashlimit but
        detection allows extension scripts for user-supplied actions to
        determine if the capability exists.

        With Shorewall-shell, $HASHLIMIT_MATCH will be non-empty if the
        capability exists.

        With Shorewall-perl, $capabilities{HASHLIMIT_MATCH} will be true in
        a boolean context if the capability exists. Shorewall-perl users
        may also code the following in their extension script:

        use Shorewall::Config;

        require_capability( 'HASHLIMIT_MATCH',      #Capability
                            'My hashlimit action' , #Feature requiring
                                                    #capability
                            's' );                  #Feature is singular
                                                    #(if plural, pass the
                                                      empty string)

        That call would procduce the following fatal error if the
        capability isn't available:

        ERROR: My hashlimit action requires the Hashlimit match capability
               in your kernel and iptables

    9)  NFQUEUE support has been added to Shorewall-perl.

        NFQUEUE may appear in actions, macros, rules and as a policy.
        When NFQUEUE is used by itself, queue number zero is assumed. To
        specify a queue number, follow NFQUEUE by a slash ("/") and the
        queue number.

        Examples (/etc/shorewall/rules):

        NFQUEUE             loc     net     tcp #Queue number 0
        NFQUEUE/22          loc     net     udp #Queue number 22
        NFQUEUE/22:info     loc     net     gre #With logging

        An NFQUEUE_DEFAULT option has been added to shorewall.conf for
        specifying the default action to use with NFQUEUE policies.

        Use of NFQUEUE requires the NFQUEUE Target capability in your
        kernel/iptables. If you intend to use NFQUEUE with Shorewall-lite,
        then you must install Shorewall-lite 4.0.3 in order to build a
        capabilities file that includes NFQUEUE Target. If your
        capabilities file was generated by a Shorewall/Shorewall-lite
        version earlier that 4.0.3, you will receive a warning during
        compilation.

    10) The 'refresh' command can now refresh chains other than 'blacklst'.

        The syntax of the command is now:

            shorewall refresh [ <chain> ... ]

        If no <chain> is given then 'blacklst' is assumed. Otherwise, the
        Shorewall-perl compiler compiles a script whose 'refresh' command
        refreshes the listed <chain>(s).

        The listed chains are assumed to be in the filter table. You can
        refresh chains in other tables by prefixing the chain name with the
        table name followed by ":" (e.g., nat:net_dnat). Chain names which
        follow are assumed to be in that table until the end of the list or
        until an entry in the list names another table.

        This feature requires Shorewall-perl 4.0.3 as well as
        Shorewall-common 4.0.3.

2007-08-19 Shorewall 3.4.6

    Problems Corrected in 3.4.6.

    1)  If the "Mangle FORWARD Chain" capability was supported, entries in
        the /etc/shorewall/ecn file would cause invalid iptables
        commands to be generated.

    2)  Certain errors occurring during
        start/restart/safe-start/safe-restart/try processing could cause
        the lockfile to be left behind. This resulted in a 60-second delay
        the next time one of these commands was run.

    3)  It was not previously possible to define traffic shaping on a
        bridge port; the generated script complained that the
        interface was not up and configured.

    4)  Previously, using a port list in the DEST PORT(S) column of the
        rules file or in an action file caused an invalid iptables command
        to be generated.

    5)  Using the LOG target in the rules file could result in two LOG
        rules being generated. Additionally, using an IP address range in a
        rule that performed logging could result in an invalid iptables
        command.

    6)  Shorewall now loads the act_police kernel module needed by traffic
        shaping.

    7)  Previously, "shorewall show -f capabilities" and "shorecap" omitted
        the "TCPMSS Match" capability. This made it appear to a compiler
        using a capabilities file that the TCPMSS Match capability was not
        available.

    8)  Previously, Shorewall would truncate long log prefixes to 29
        characters. This resulted in there being no space between the log
        prefix and the IN= part of the message.

        Example: fw2net:LOG:HTTPSoutIN= OUT=eth0

        Beginning with this release, Shorewall will truncate the prefix to
        28 bytes and add a trailing space.

        Example: fw2net:LOG:HTTPSou IN= OUT=eth0

    9)  Previously, if:

        - FASTACCEPT=No
        - The policy from Z1 to Z2 was CONTINUE
        - Z1 and Z2 were orphans (neither had parent zones)
        - There were no Z1->Z2 rules

        then connections from Z2->Z1 would fail even if there were
        rules/policies allowing them. This has been
        corrected.

    Other changes in 3.4.6.

    1)  Processing of the message log in the 'show log', 'logwatch' and
        'dump' commands has been speeded up thanks to a suggestion by
        Andrew Suffield.

2007-08-10 Shorewall 4.0.2

    Problems corrected in 4.0.2

    1)  The Shorewall-perl compiler was still generating invalid
        iptables-restore input from entries in /etc/shorewall/ecn.

    2)  When using Shorewall-perl, unless an interface was specified as
        'optional' in the interfaces file, the 'restore' command would
        fail if the routes through the interface or the addresses on the
        interface could not be detected.

        Route detection occurs when the interface is named in the SOURCE
        column of the masq file. Address detection occurs when
        DETECT_DNAT_IPADDRS=Yes and the interface is the SOURCE for a DNAT
        or REDIRECT rule or when 'maclist' is specified for the interface.

        Since the 'restore' command doesn't use the detected information,
        detection is now skipped if the command is 'restore'.

    3)  It was not previously possible to define traffic shaping on a
        bridge port; the generated script complained that the
        interface was not up and configured.

    4)  When Shorewall-shell was not installed, certain options in
        /etc/shorewall/interfaces and /etc/shorewall/hosts would cause the
        'add' and 'delete' commands to fail with a missing library error.

              OPTION               FILE
              maclist              interfaces,hosts
              proxyarp             interfaces

    5)  The /var/lib/shorewall/zones file was being overwritten during
        processing of the 'refresh' command by a script generated with
        Shorewall-perl. The result was that hosts previously added to
        dynamic zones could not be deleted after the 'refresh'.

    6)  If the file named as the output file in a Shorewall-perl 'compile'
        command was a symbolic link, the generated error message
        erroneously stated that the file's parent directory was a symbolic
        link.

        As part of this change, cosmetic changes were made to a number of
        other error messages.

    7)  Some intra-zone rules were missing when a zone involved multiple
        interfaces or when a zone included both IPSEC and non-IPSEC
        networks.

    8)  Shorewall was not previously loading the xt_multiport kernel
        module.

    9)  The Russian and French translations no longer have English headings
        on notes, cautions, etc..

    10) Previously, using a port list in the DEST PORT(S) column of the
        rules file or in an action file could cause an invalid iptables
        command to be generated by Shorewall-shell.

    11) If there were no bridges in a configuration, Shorewall-perl would
        ignore the CHAIN column in /etc/shorewall/accounting.

    Other changes in 4.0.2

    1)  Shorewall-perl now detects when a port range is included in a list
        of ports and iptables/kernel support for Extended Multi-port Match
        is not available. This avoids an iptables-restore failure at
        run-time.

    2)  Most chains created by Shorewall-shell have names that can be
        embedded within shell variable names. This is a workaround for
        limitations in the shell programming language which has no
        equivalent to Perl hashes. Often chain names must have the name of
        a network interface encoded in them. Given that interface names can
        contain characters that are invalid in a shell variable name,
        Shorewall-shell performs a name mapping which was carried forward to
        Shorewall-perl:

        - Trailing '+' is dropped.
        - The characters ".", "-", "%' and "@" are translated to "_".

        This mapping has been elminated in the 4.0.2 release of Shorewall-
        perl. So where before you would see chain "eth0_0_in", you may now
        see the same chain named "eth0.0_in". Similarly, a chain previously
        named "ppp_fwd" may now be called "ppp+_fwd".

    3)  Shorewall-perl now uses the contents of the BROADCAST column in
        /etc/shorewall/interfaces when the Address Type match capability is
        not available.

2007-07-30 Shorewall 4.0.1

    Problems corrected in 4.0.1.

    1)  The Shorewall Lite installer was producing an empty shorewall-lite
        manpage. Since the installer runs as part of creating the RPM, the
        RPM also suffered from this problem. The 4.0.0 Shorewall-lite
        packages were re-uploaded with this problem corrected.

    2)  The Shorewall Lite uninstaller incorrectly removed /sbin/shorewall
        rather than /sbin/shorewall-lite.

    3)  Both the Shorewall and Shorewall Lite uninstallers did a "shorewall
        clear" if Shorewall [Lite] was running. Now, the Shorewall Lite
        uninstaller correctly does "shorewall-lite clear" and both
        uninstallers only perform the 'clear' operation if the other
        product is not installed. This prevents the removal of one of the
        two products from clearing the firewall configuration established
        by the other one.

    4)  The 'ipsec' OPTION in /etc/shorewall/hosts was mis-handled by
        Shorewall-perl. If the zone type was changed to 'ipsec' or
        'ipsec4' and the 'ipsec' option removed from the hosts file entry,
        the configuration worked properly.

    5)  If a CLASSID was specified in a tcrule and TC_ENABLED=No, then
        Shorewall-perl produced the following:

        Compiling...
        Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Tc.pm line 285, <$currentfile> line 18.
           ERROR: Class Id n:m is not associated with device eth0 : /etc/shorewall/tcrules (line 18)

    6)  If IPTABLES was not specified in shorewall.conf, Shorewall-perl was
        locating the binary using the PATH environmental variable rather
        than the PATH setting in shorewall.conf.  If no PATH was available
        when Shorewall-perl was run and IPTABLES was not set in
        shorewall.conf, the following messages were issued:

        Use of uninitialized value in split at /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Config.pm line 1054.
           ERROR: Can't find iptables executable
           ERROR: Shorewall restart failed

    7)  If the "Mangle FORWARD Chain" capability was supported, entries in
        the /etc/shorewall/ecn file would cause invalid iptables commands
        to be generated. This problem occurred with both compilers.

    8)  Shorewall now starts at reboot after an upgrade from shorewall <
        4.0.0. Previously, Shorewall was not started automatically at
        reboot after an upgrade using the RPMs.

    9)  Shorewall-perl was generating invalid iptables-restore input when a
        log level was specified with the dropBcast and allowBcast builtin
        actions and when a log level followed by '!' was used with any
        builtin actions.

    10) Shorewall-perl was incorrectly rejecting 'min' as a valid unit of
        time in rate-limiting specifications.

    11) Certain errors occurring during
        start/restart/safe-start/safe-restart/try processing could cause
        the lockfile to be left behind. This resulted in a 60-second delay
        the next time one of these commands was run.

    Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.1.

    1)  A new EXPAND_POLICIES option is added to shorewall.conf. The
        option is recognized by Shorewall-perl and is ignored by
        Shorewall-shell.

        Normally, when the SOURCE or DEST columns in shorewall-policy(5)
        contains 'all', a single policy chain is created and the policy is
        enforced in that chain. For example, if the policy entry is

                 #SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG
                 #                   LEVEL
                 net     all  DROP   info

        then the chain name is 'net2all' which is also the chain named in
        Shorewall log messages generated as a result of the policy. If
        EXPAND_POLICIES=Yes, then Shorewall-perl will create a separate
        chain for each pair of zones covered by the policy. This makes the
        resulting log messages easier to interpret since the chain in the
        messages will have a name of the form 'a2b' where 'a' is the SOURCE
        zone and 'b' is the DEST zone. See
        http://linuxman.wikispaces.com/PPPPPPS for more information.

    2)  The Shorewall-perl dependency on the "Address Type Match"
        capability has been relaxed. This allows Shorewall 4.0.1 to be used
        on releases like RHEL4 that don't support that capability.

    3)  Shorewall-perl now detects dead policy file entries that result
        when an entry is masked by an earlier entry. Example:

             all     all      REJECT    info
             loc     net      ACCEPT

    4)  Recent kernels are apparently hard to configure and we have been
        seeing a lot of problem reports where the root cause is the lack of
        state match support in the kernel. This problem is difficult to
        diagnose when using Shorewall-perl so the generated shell program
        now checks specifically for this problem and terminates with an
        error if the capability doesn't exist.

2007-07-20 Shorewall 4.0.0

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                       R E L E A S E  H I G H L I G H T S
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1) This is the first Shorewall release that fully integrates the new
       Shorewall-perl compiler. See the "New Features" section below.

    2) You are now offered a choice as to which compiler(s) you install. In
       4.0.0, there are the following packages:

       - Shorewall-common ( common files )
       - Shorewall-shell ( the shell-based compiler )
       - Shorewall-perl (the Perl-based compiler )

       You must install at least one of the compiler packages (you may
       install them both) along with Shorewall-common.

       YOU DO NOT NEED TO UNINSTALL ANY OF YOUR CURRENT PACKAGES.

       See the Migration Considerations below for further information.

    3) The facilities for supporting bridge/firewalls under earlier
       releases are deprecated and their documentation is omitted from the
       4.0 distribution. New bridge support is implemented in the
       Shorewall-perl compiler. This support utilizes the reduced-function
       physdev match support available in Linux kernel 2.6.20 and later.

    Problems corrected in 4.0.0 Final.

    1)  The shorewall-lite install.sh may now be run multiple times from
        the same directory. Previously, the manpages were gzipped in-place
        which made it impossible to rerun the script.

    2)  If shorewall.conf contained SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell (which it can
        on Shorewall 3.4.2-4 systems) and the shorewall-shell RPM was
        removed, subsequent "shorewall [re]start" operations failed. When
        shorewall-shell is removed, the shorewall.conf file is modified to
        specify SHOREWALL_COMPILER= and the original is saved in
        shorewall.conf.rpmsave.

    3)  The contents of the LOG LEVEL column in /etc/shorewall/policy are
        now validated at compile time by Shorewall-perl.

    Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.0 Final.

    1)  The Perl modules in /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/ have been
        consolidated somewhat, leading to slightly faster compilation.

    Migration Considerations:

    1)  Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.0, there is no single 'shorewall'
        package. Rather there are two compiler packages (shorewall-shell
        and shorewall-perl) and a set of base files (shorewall-common)
        which are required by either compiler package.

        Although the names of the packages are changing, you can upgrade
        without having to uninstall/reinstall.

        To repeat: YOU DO NOT NEED TO UNINSTALL ANY EXISTING PACKAGE.

        If you attempt to upgrade using the shorewall-common RPM, you get
        this result:
        gateway:~ # rpm -Uvh shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
        error: Failed dependencies:
            shorewall_compiler is needed by shorewall-common-4.0.0-1.noarch
        gateway:~ #

        You must either:

            rpm -Uvh shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm \
                shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm

        or

            rpm -Uvh shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm \
                shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm \
                shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm

        If you don't want to use shorewall-perl exclusively then use the
        second command above then

            rpm -e shorewall-shell

        If you are upgrading using the tarball, you must install
        shorewall-shell and/or shorewall-perl before you upgrade
        using shorewall-common. Otherwise, the install.sh script fails with:

             ERROR: No Shorewall compiler is installed

        The shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl packages are installed from
        the tarball in the expected way; untar the package, and run the
        install.sh script.

        Example 1: You have 'shorewall' installed and you want to continue
        to use the shorewall-shell compiler.

            tar -jxf shorewall-common-4.0.0.tar.bz2
            tar -jxf shorewall-shell-4.0.0.tar.bz2

            cd shorewall-shell-4.0.0
            ./install.sh
            cd ../shorewall-common-4.0.0
            ./install.sh
            shorewall check
            shorewall restart

        Example 2: You have shorewall 3.4.4 and shorewall-perl 4.0.0-Beta7
        installed and you want to upgrade to 4.0. You do not need the
        shell-based compiler.

            tar -jxf shorewall-common-4.0.0.tar.bz2
            tar -jxf shorewall-perl-4.0.0.tar.bz2

            cd shorewall-perl-4.0.0
            ./install.sh
            cd ../shorewall-common-4.0.0
            ./install.sh
            shorewall check
            shorewall restart

            Be sure to modify shorewall.conf if it still has
            SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell.

    2)  The ROUTE_FILTER and LOG_MARTIANS options in shorewall.conf work
        slightly differently in Shorewall 4.0.0. In prior releases, leaving
        these options empty was equivalent to setting them to 'No' which
        caused the corresponding flag in /proc to be reset for all
        interfaces. Beginning in Shorewall 4.0.0, leaving these options
        empty causes Shorewall to leave the flags in /proc as they are. You
        must set the option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior.

    3)  The -f option is no longer the default when Shorewall is started at
        boot time (usually via /etc/init.d/shorewall). With Shorewall-perl,
        "shorewall start" is nearly as fast as "shorewall restore" and
        "shorewall start" uses the current configuration which avoids
        confusion.

        If you plan on continuing to use Shorewall-shell and you want to
        use the "-f" option at boot time, then you must add the following
        to /etc/sysconfig/shorewall or /etc/default/shorewall:

           OPTIONS="-f"

        If you currently have neither of those files, you will need to
        create one of them.

    4)  This issue will only affect you if you use Shorewall Lite and have
        modified /usr/share/configpath to specify a different LITEDIR.

        The implementation of LITEDIR has always been
        unsatisfactory. Furthermore, there have been other cases where
        people have asked to be able to designate the state directory
        (default /var/lib/shorewall[-lite]).

        To meet these objectives:

        a)  The LITEDIR variable has been eliminated in
            /usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/configpath.

        b)  A new file /etc/shorewall[-lite]/vardir has been added. This
            file is not created by default but may be added as needed. It
            is expected to contain a single variable assignment:

               VARDIR=<directory>

            Example:

               VARDIR=/root/shorewall

        To change VARDIR, copy the old directory to the new one before you
        restart Shorewall[-lite].

        To use this feature with Shorewall-lite, all packages involved
        (compiler, shorewall-common and shorewall-lite) must be version
        4.0.0-RC2 or later.

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                             N E W  F E A T U R E S
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    1)  Shorewall-perl

        This Shorewall package includes a complete rewrite of the compiler
        in Perl.

        I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate package for several reasons:

        a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even
           Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint.

        b) Because of the gross incompatibilities between the new compiler and the
           old (see below), migration to the new compiler must be voluntary.
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          T H E   G O O D   N E W S:
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        a) The compiler has a small disk footprint.
        b) The compiler is very fast.
        c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore;
           so the script is very fast.
        d) The new compiler does a much better job of validating the
           configuration and catches many errors that resulted in run-time
           failures with the old compiler.
        e) Use of the Shorewall-perl is optional! The old slow clunky
           Bourne-shell compiler is still available.
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          T H E   B A D   N E W S:
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        There are a number of incompatibilities between the Perl-based compiler
        and the Bourne-shell one.

        a) The Perl-based compiler requires the following capabilities in your
           kernel and iptables.

           - addrtype match
           - multiport match

           These capabilities are in current distributions.

        b) Now that Netfilter has features to deal reasonably with port lists,
           I see no reason to duplicate those features in Shorewall. The
           Bourne-shell compiler goes to great pain (in some cases) to
           break very long port lists ( > 15 where port ranges in lists
           count as two ports) into individual rules. In the new compiler, I'm
           avoiding the ugliness required to do that. The new compiler just
           generates an error if your list is too long. It will also produce
           an error if you insert a port range into a port list and you don't
           have extended multiport support.

        c) The old BRIDGING=Yes support has been replaced by new bridge
           support that uses the reduced 'physdev match' capabilities found
           in kernel 2.6.20 and later. This new implementation may be used
           where it is desired to control traffic through a bridge.

           The new implementation includes the following features:

           a)  A new "Bridge Port" zone type is defined. Specify 'bport' or
               'bport4' in the TYPE column of /etc/shorewall/zones.

               Bridge Port zones should be a sub-zone of a regular ipv4 zone
               that represents all hosts attached to the bridge.

           b)  A new 'bridge' option is defined for entries in
               /etc/shorewall/interfaces. Bridges should have this option
               specified, even if you don't want to filter traffic going
               through the bridge.

           c)  Bridge ports must now be defined in
               /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The INTERFACE column contains
               both the bridge name and the port name separated by a colon
               (e.g., "br0:eth1"). No OPTIONS are allowed for bridge
               ports. The bridge must be defined before its ports and must
               have the 'bridge' option.

           Bridge Port (BP) zones have a number of limitations:

           a)  Each BP zone may only be associated with ports on a single
               bridge.

           b)  BP zones may not be associated with interfaces that are not
               bridge ports.

           c)  You may not have policies or rules where the DEST is a BP
               zone but the source is not a BP zone. If you need such
               rules, you must use the BP zone's parent zone as the DEST
               zone.

           Example (Bridge br0 with ports eth1 and tap0):

           /etc/shorewall/zones:

            fw      firewall
            net     ipv4
            loc     ipv4
            lan:loc bport
            vpn:loc bport

           /etc/shorewall/interfaces:

            net     eth0    -       ...
            loc     br0     -       ...
            lan     eth1
            vpn     tap0

           When using the /etc/shorewall/hosts file to define a bport4
           zone, you specify only the port name:

           Example:

           /etc/shorewall/zones:

            fw      firewall
            net     ipv4
            loc     ipv4
            lan:loc bport
            vpn:loc bport

           /etc/shorewall/hosts

            lan     eth1:192.168.2.0/24     ...

           The structure of the accounting rules changes slightly when
           there are bridges defined in the Shorewall
           configuration. Because of the restrictions imposed by Netfilter
           in kernel 2.6.21 and later, output accounting rules must be
           segregated from forwarding and input rules.

           To accomplish this separation, Shorewall-perl creates two
           accounting chains:

           - accounting - for input and forwarded traffic.
           - accountout - for output traffic.

           If the CHAIN column contains '-', then:

           - If the SOURCE column in a rule includes the name of the
             firewall zone (e.g., $FW), then the rule is add only
             to the accountout chain.

           - Otherwise, if the DEST in the rule is any or all or 0.0.0.0/0,
             then the rule is added to both accounting and accountout.

           - Otherwise, the rule is added to accounting only.

           See http://www.shorewall.net/bridge-Shorewall-perl.html for
           additional information about the new bridge support.

        d) The BROADCAST column in the interfaces file is essentially unused;
           if you enter anything in this column but '-' or 'detect', you will
           receive a warning.

        e) Because the compiler is written in Perl, some of your extension
           scripts from earlier versions will no longer work because
           Shorewall-perl runs those extension scripts at compile-time rather
           than at run-time.

           Compile-time scripts are:

               initdone
               maclog
               All per-chain scripts including those associated with actions.

           Compile-time extension scripts are executed using the Perl 'eval
           `cat <file>`' mechanism. Be sure that each script returns a
           'true' value; otherwise, the compiler will assume that the
           script failed and will abort the compilation.

           All scripts will need to begin with the following line:

               use Shorewall::Chains;

           For more complex scripts, you may need to 'use' other Shorewall
           Perl modules -- browse /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/ to
           see what's available.

           When a script is invoked, the $chainref scalar variable will hold a
           reference to a chain table entry.

               $chainref->{name}  contains the name of the chain
               $chainref->{table} holds the table name

               To add a rule to the chain:

                  add_rule( $chainref, <the rule> );

               Where

                  <the rule> is a scalar argument holding the rule text. Do
                  not include "-A <chain name>"

               Example:

                  add_rule( $chainref, '-j ACCEPT' );

               To insert a rule into the chain:

                  insert_rule( $chainref, <rulenum>, <the rule> );

               The log_rule_limit function works like it does in the shell
               compiler with two exceptions:

                  - You pass the chain reference rather than the name of
                    the chain.
                  - The commands are 'add' and 'insert' rather than '-A'
                    and '-I'.
                  - There is only a single "pass as-is to iptables"
                    argument (so you must quote that part).

               Example:

                  log_rule_limit(
                                 'info' ,
                                  $chainref ,
                                  $chainref->{name},
                                  'DROP' ,
                                  '',      #Limit
                                  '' ,     #Log tag
                                  'add',   #Command
                                  '-p tcp' #Pass as-is
                                 );

           Note that in the 'initdone' script, there is no default chain
           ($chainref). You can objtain a reference to a standard chain by:

               my $chainref = $chain_table{<table>}{<chain name>};

           Example:

               my $chainref = $chain_table{'filter'}{'INPUT'};

           The continue script is eliminated. That script was designed to
           allow you to add special rules during [re]start. Shorewall-perl
           doesn't need such rules.

           See http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_extension_scripts.htm
           for further information about extension scripts under
           Shorewall-perl.

        f) The 'refresh' command now works like 'restart' with the
           following exceptions:

           - The refresh command is rejected if Shorewall is not running.
           - The refresh command only rebuilds the 'blacklst' chain.
           - A directory name may not be specified in the refresh command.

        g) The /etc/shorewall/tos file now has zone-independent SOURCE and
           DEST columns as do all other files except the rules and policy
           files.

           The SOURCE column may be one of the following:

               [all:]<address>[,...]
               [all:]<interface>[:<address>[,...]]
               $FW[:<address>[,...]]

           The DEST column may be one of the following:

               [all:]<address>[,...]
               [all:]<interface>[:<address>[,...]]

           This is a permanent change. The old zone-based rules have never
           worked right and this is a good time to replace them. I've tried
           to make the new syntax cover the most common cases without
           requiring change to existing files. In particular, it will
           handle the tos file released with Shorewall 1.4 and earlier.

        h) Shorewall is now out of the ipset load/reload business. With
           scripts generated by the Perl-based Compiler, the Netfilter
           ruleset is never cleared. That means that there is no
           opportunity for Shorewall to load/reload your ipsets since that
           cannot be done while there are any current rules using ipsets.

           So:

            i)   Your ipsets must be loaded before Shorewall starts. You
                 are free to try to do that with the following code in
                 /etc/shorewall/start:

                 if [ "$COMMAND" = start ]; then
                    ipset -U :all: :all:
                    ipset -F
                    ipset -X
                    ipset -R < /my/ipset/contents
                 fi

                 The file '/my/ipset/contents' (not its real name of
                 course) will normally be produced using the ipset -S
                 command.

                 The above will work most of the time but will fail in a
                 'shorewall stop' - 'shorewall start' sequence if you
                 use ipsets in your routestopped file (see below).

            ii)  Your ipsets may not be reloaded until Shorewall is stopped
                 or cleared.

            iii) If you specify ipsets in your routestopped file then
                 Shorewall must be cleared in order to reload your ipsets.

           As a consequence, scripts generated by the Perl-based compiler
           will ignore /etc/shorewall/ipsets and will issue a warning if
           you set SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf.

        i) Because the configuration files (with the exception of
           /etc/shorewall/params) are now processed by the Perl-based
           compiler rather than by the shell, only the basic forms of Shell
           expansion ($variable and ${variable}) are supported. The more
           exotic forms such as ${variable:=default} are not
           supported. Both variables defined in /etc/shorewall/params and
           environmental variables (exported by the shell) can be used in
           configuration files.

        j) USE_ACTIONS=No is not supported. That option is intended to
           minimize Shorewall's footprint in embedded applications. As a
           consequence, Default Macros are not supported.

        k) DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD=Yes is not supported. The entire ruleset is
           atomically loaded with one execution of iptables-restore.

        l) MAPOLDACTIONS=Yes is not supported. People should have converted
           to using macros by now.

        m) The pre Shorewall-3.0 format of the zones file is not supported;
           neither is the /etc/shorewall/ipsec file.

        n) BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No is not permitted with FASTACCEPT=Yes. This
           combination doesn't work in previous versions of Shorewall so
           the Perl-based compiler simply rejects it.

        o) Shorewall-perl has a single rule generator that is used for all
           rule-oriented files. So it is important that the syntax is
           consistent between files.

           With shorewall-shell, there is a special syntax in the SOURCE
           column of /etc/shorewall/masq to designate "all traffic entering
           the firewall on this interface except...".

           Example:

           #INTERFACE       SOURCE                  ADDRESSES
           eth0             eth1!192.168.4.9        ...

           Shorewall-perl uses syntax that is consistent with the rest of
           Shorewall:

           #INTERFACE       SOURCE                  ADDRESSES
           eth0             eth1:!192.168.4.9       ...

        p) The 'allowoutUPnP' built-in action is no longer supported. The
           Netfilter team have removed support for '-m owner --owner-cmd'
           which that action depended on.

        q) The treatment of the following interface options has changed under
           Shorewall-perl.

           - arp_filter
           - routefilter
           - logmartians
           - proxy_arp
           - sourceroute

           With the Shorewall-shell compiler, Shorewall resets these options
           on all interfaces then sets the option on those interfaces
           for which the option is defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.

           Under Shorewall-perl, these options can be specified with the value
           0 or 1 (e.g., proxy_arp=0). If no value is specified, the value 1
           is assumed. Shorewall will modify only the setting of those
           interfaces for which the option is specified and will set the
           option to the given value.

           A fatal compilation error is also generated if you specify one of
           these options with a wildcard interface (one ending with '+').

        r) The LOG_MARTIANS and ROUTE_FILTER options are now tri-valued in
           Shorewall-perl.

            Yes -  Same as before
            No  -  Same as before except that it applies regardless of
                   whether any interfaces have the logmartians/routefilter
                   option
            Keep - Shorewall ignores the option entirely (which is the
            default).

        s)  Shorewall-perl support nn 'optional' option has been added to
            /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option is recognized by
            Shorewall-perl but not by Shorewall-shell. When 'optional' is
            specified for an interface, Shorewall will be silent when:

            - a /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ entry for the interface cannot be
              modified (including for proxy ARP).

            - The first address of the interface cannot be obtained.

            I specify 'optional' on interfaces to Xen virtual machines that
            may or may not be running when Shorewall is [re]started.

            CAUTION: Use 'optional' at your own risk. If you [re]start
            Shorewall when an 'optional' interface is not available and then
            do a 'shorewall save', subsequent 'shorewall restore' and
            'shorewall -f start' operations will instantiate a ruleset that
            does not support that interface, even if it is available at the
            time of the restore/start.

         t) Shorewall-perl validates all IP addresses and addresses ranges
            in rules. DNS names are resolved and an error is issued for any
            name that cannot be resolved.
         u) Shorewall-perl checks configuration files for the presense of
            characters that can cause problems if they are allowed into the
            generated firewall script:

            - Double Quotes. These are prohibited except in the
              shorewall.conf and params files.

            - Single Quotes. These are prohibited except in the
              shorewall.conf and params files and in COMMENT lines.

            - Single back quotes. These are prohibited except in the
              shorewall.conf and params files.

            - Backslash. Probibited except as the last character on a line
              to denote line continuation.

         v) Under Shorewall-perl, macros may invoke other macros with the
            restriction that such macros may not be invoked within an action
            body.

            When marcros are invoked recursively, the parameter passed to an
            invocation are automatically propagated to lower level macros.

             Macro invocations may be nested to a maximum level of 5.
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          P R E R E Q U I S I T E S
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
        - Perl (I use Perl 5.8.8 but other versions should work fine)
        - Perl Cwd Module
        - Perl File::Basename Module
        - Perl File::Temp Module
        - Perl Getopt::Long Module
        ------------------------------------------------------------------------
                   U S I N G   T H E   N E W   C O M P I L E R
        If you only install one compiler, then that compiler will be used.

        If you install both compilers, then the compiler actually used depends
        on the SHOREWALL_COMPILER setting in shorewall.conf.

        The value of this new option can be either 'perl' or 'shell'.

        If you add 'SHOREWALL_COMPILER=perl' to /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
        then by default, the new compiler will be used on the system. If you
        add it to shorewall.conf in a separate directory (such as a
        Shorewall-lite export directory) then the new compiler will only be
        used when you compile from that directory.

        If you only install one compiler, it is suggested that you do not set
        SHOREWALL_COMPILER.

        You can also select the compiler to use on the command line using the
        'C option:

           '-C shell' means use the shell compiler
           '-C perl' means use the perl compiler

        The -C option overrides the setting in shorewall.conf.

        Example:

            shorewall restart -C perl

    2)  Thanks to Paul Gear, an IPPServer macro has been added. Be sure to
        read the comments in the macro file before trying to use this
        macro.

    3)  Eariler generations of Shorewall Lite required that remote root
        login via ssh be enabled in order to use the 'load' and 'reload'
        commands.

        Beginning with this release, you may define an alternative means
        for accessing the remote firewall system.

        Two new options have been added to shorewall.conf:

            RSH_COMMAND
            RCP_COMMAND

        The default values for these are as follows:

            RSH_COMMAND: ssh ${root}@${system} ${command}
            RCP_COMMAND: scp ${files} ${root}@${system}:${destination}

        Shell variables that will be set when the commands are envoked are
        as follows:

           root  - root user. Normally 'root' but may be overridden using
                   the '-r' option.

           system - The name/IP address of the remote firewall system.

           command - For RSH_COMMAND, the command to be executed on the
                     firewall system.

           files   - For RCP_COMMAND, a space-separated list of files to
                     be copied to the remote firewall system.

           destination - The directory on the remote system that the files
                         are to be copied into.

    4)  The accounting, masq, rules and tos files now have a 'MARK' column
        similar to the column of the same name in the tcrules file. This
        column allows filtering by MARK and CONNMARK value (CONNMARK is
        only accepted under Shorewall Perl).

    5)  SOURCE and DEST are now reserved zone names to avoid problems with
        bi-directional macro definitions which use these as names as key
        words.

    6)  The "shorewall show zones" command now flags zone members that have
        been added using "shorewall add" by preceding them with a plus sign
        ("+").

        Example:

        Shorewall 3.9.4 Zones at gateway - Mon May 14 07:48:16 PDT 2007

        fw (firewall)
        net (ipv4)
            eth0:0.0.0.0/0
        loc (ipv4)
            br0:0.0.0.0/0
            eth4:0.0.0.0/0
            eth5:0.0.0.0/0
            +eth1:0.0.0.0/0
        dmz (ipv4)
            eth3:0.0.0.0/0
        vpn (ipv4)
            tun+:0.0.0.0/0

        In the above output, "eth1:0.0.0.0/0" was dynamically added to the
        'loc' zone. As part of this change, "shorewall delete" will only
        delete entries that have been added dynamically. In earlier
        versions, any entry could be deleted although the ruleset was only
        changed by deleting entries that had been added dynamically.

    7)  The 'shorewall version' command now lists the version of the
        installed compiler(s) if the -a option is used:

        gateway:/bulk/backup # shorewall version -a
        4.0.0-Beta1
        Shorewall-shell 4.0.0-Beta1
        Shorewall-perl 4.0.0-Beta1
        gateway:/bulk/backup #

    8)  The Perl compiler is externalized. Both the compiler.pl program
        and the Perl Module interface are documented.

        The compiler program is /usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl:

            compiler.pl [ <option> ... ] [ <filename> ]

        If a <filename> is given, then the configuration will be compiled
        output placed in the named file. If <filename> is not given, then
        the configuration will simply be syntax checked.

        Options are:

        -v <verbosity>
        --verbosity=<verbosity>

            The <verbosity> is a number between 0 and 2 and corresponds to
            the VERBOSITY setting in shorewall.conf. This setting controls
            the verbosity of the compiler itself.

        -e
        --export

            If given, the configuration will be compiled for export to
            another system.

        -d <directory>
        --directory=<directory>

            If this option is omitted, the configuration in /etc/shorewall
            is compiled/checked. Otherwise, the configuration in the named
            directory will be compiled/checked.

        -t
        --timestamp

            If given, each progress message issued by the compiler and by
            the compiled program will be timestamped.

        --debug

            If given, when a warning or error message is issued, it is
            supplimented with a stack trace. Requires the Carp Perl
            module.

        Example (compiles the configuration in the current directory
                 generating a script named 'firewall' and using VERBOSITY
                 2).

           /usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl -v 2 -d . firewall

        Note: For compatibility with the Shorewall 3.4.2 and 3.4.3
        releases, options not passed on the run-line get their values from
        environmental variables:

               Option                 Variable

               --verbosity            VERBOSE
               --export               EXPORT
               --directory            SHOREWALL_DIR
               --timestamp            TIMESTAMP

        The Perl Module is externalized as follows:

            use lib '/usr/share/shorewall-perl';
            use Shorewall::Compiler;

                compiler $filename, $directory, $verbose, $options

        The arguments to the compiler function are as follows:

            $filename -   Name of the compiled script to be created.
                          If the arguments evaluates to false, the
                          configuration is syntax checked

            $directory -  The directory containing the configuration.
                          If passed as '', then /etc/shorewall/ is assumed.

            $verbose -    The verbosity level (0-2).

            $options -    A bitmap of options. Shorewall::Compiler
                          exports two constants to help building this
                          argument:

                            EXPORT    = 0x01
                            TIMESTAMP = 0x02

        The compiler raises an exception with 'die' if it encounters an
        error; $@ contains the 'ERROR' messages describing the problem.

        The compiler function can be called repeatedly with different
        inputs.

    9)  When TC_ENABLED=Internal, Shorewall-perl now validates classids in
        the MARK/CLASSIFY column of /etc/shorewall/tcrules against the
        classes generated by /etc/shorewall/tcclasses.

    10) During installation, Shorewall generates the Perl module
        /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm, using your
        /etc/protocols and /etc/services as input.

        To re-generate the module from those two files:

            1. Backup your current /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm
               file.
            2. /usr/share/shorewall-perl/buildports.pl > \
               /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm

        Note: If the buildports.pl program fails to run to a successful
        completion during installation, a fallback version of
        module will be installed. That fallback module was generated from
        the /etc/protocols and /etc/services shipped with Ubuntu Feisty
        Fawn.

        Even if the buildports.pl program runs successfully, the fallback
        module is also installed as
        /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/FallbackPorts.pm. So if you
        encounter problems with the generated module, simply copy the
        fallback module to /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm.

    11) Tuomo Soini has contributed bi-directional macros for various
        tunnel types:

              IPsecah
              GRE
              IPsec
              IPIP
              IPsecnat
              L2TP

    12) The -f option is no longer the default when Shorewall is started at
        boot time (usually via /etc/init.d/shorewall). With Shorewall-perl,
        "shorewall start" is nearly as fast as "shorewall restore" and
        "shorewall start" uses the current configuration which avoids
        confusion.

        To re-generate the module from those two files:

            1. Backup your current /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm
               file.
            2. /usr/share/shorewall-perl/buildports.pl > \
               /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm

        Note: If the buildports.pl program fails to run to a successful
        completion during installation, a fallback version of
        module will be installed. That fallback module was generated from
        the /etc/protocols and /etc/services shipped with Ubuntu Feisty
        Fawn.

        Even if the buildports.pl program runs successfully, the fallback
        module is also installed as
        /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/FallbackPorts.pm. So if you
        encounter problems with the generated module, simply copy the
        fallback module to /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/Ports.pm.

    11) Tuomo Soini has contributed bi-directional macros for various
        tunnel types:

              IPsecah
              GRE
              IPsec
              IPIP
              IPsecnat
              L2TP

    12) The -f option is no longer the default when Shorewall is started at
        boot time (usually via /etc/init.d/shorewall). With Shorewall-perl,
        "shorewall start" is nearly as fast as "shorewall restore" and
        "shorewall start" uses the current configuration which avoids
        confusion.

    13) The implementation of LITEDIR has always been
        unsatisfactory. Furthermore, there have been other cases where
        people have asked to be able to designate the state directory
        (default /var/lib/shorewall[-lite]).

        To meet these objectives:

        a)  The LITEDIR variable has been eliminated in
            /usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/configpath.

        b)  A new file /etc/shorewall[-lite]/vardir has been added. This
            file is not created by default but may be added as needed. It
            is expected to contain a single variable assignment:

               VARDIR=<directory>

            Example:

               VARDIR=/root/shorewall

        To change VARDIR, copy the old directory to the new one before you
        restart Shorewall[-lite].

        To use this feature with Shorewall-lite, all packages involved
        (compiler, shorewall-common and shorewall-lite) must be version
        4.0.0-RC2 or later.

2007-07-15 Shorewall 3.4.5

    Problems Corrected in 3.4.5.

    1)  DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes can now coexist with Shorewall-perl's 'bport'
        zones. Those zones themselves may not be dynamically modified but
        the presence of bport zones no longer causes the 'shorewall add'
        command to fail.

    2)  Shorewall's internal traffic shaper once again works when the 'sed'
        utility is provided by the Busybox package.

    3)  Version 3.4.4 erroneously accepted the values On, Off, on, off, ON
        and OFF for the IP_FORWARDING option. These values were treated
        like 'Keep'. The listed values are now once again flagged as an
        error.

    4)  If 'routeback' and 'detectnets' were specified on an interface,
        limited broadcasts (to 255.255.255.255) and multicasts were dropped
        when forwarded through the interface. This could cause
        broadcast-based and multicast applications to fail when running
        through a bridge with 'detectnets'.

    5)  The 'hits' command works once again.

    6)  IPSECFILE=ipsec (either explicitly or defaulted) works
        now. Previously, processing of the ipsec file was bypassed; often
        with a confusing "missing file" message.

    7)  If DETECT_DNAT_IPADDRS=Yes in shorewall.conf but you did't have conntrack
        match support, then the generated script was missing 'done's.

    Other changes in 3.4.5.

    1)  When a Shorewall release includes detection of an additional
        capability, existing capabilities files become out of
        date. Previously, this condition was not detected.

        Beginning with this release, each generated capabilities file
        contains a CAPVERSION specification which defines the capabilities
        version of the file. If the CAPVERSION in a capabilities file is
        less than the current CAPVERSION, then Shorewall will issue the
        following message:

        WARNING: <file> is out of date -- it does not contain all of
        the capabilities defined by Shorewall version <version>

        where

            <file>    is the name of the capabilities file.
            <version> is the current Shorewall version.

        Existing capabilities files contain no CAPVERSION. When such a file
        is read, Shorewall will issue this message:

        WARNING: <file> may be not contain all of the capabilities defined
        by Shorewall version <version>

    2)  When a directory is specified in a command such as 'start' or
        'compile', Shorewall now reads the shorewall.conf file (if any) in
        that directory before deciding which compiler to use. So if
        SHOREWALL_COMPILER is not specified in
        /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and the -C option was not specified
        on the run-line, then if Shorewall-perl is installed, the additional
        shorewall.conf file is read to see if it specifies a
        SHOREWALL_COMPILER.

    3)  The 'save' command now uses iptables-save from the same directory
        containing iptables. Previously, iptables-save was located via the
        PATH setting.

2007-06-17 Shorewall 3.4.4

    Problems corrected in 3.4.4:

    1)  The commands "shorewall add <interface> <zone>" and "shorewall
        delete <interface> <zone>" no longer produce spurious error
        messages.

    2)  The command "shorewall delete <interface> <zone>" now actually deletes
        entries when it successfully completes.  Previously, it would appear
        to remove an entry, even when removing that entry should fail.

    3)  Setting HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No no longer causes TC_EXPERT flagging.

    4)  When run as root, the 'shorewall load' and 'shorewall reload'
        commands would fail if the LOGFILE setting in
        /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf specified a non-existant file.

    5)  Entries in /etc/shorewall/tcrules that specify both a source and
        destination port fail with the following diagnostic:

        iptables v1.3.3: multiport can only have one option

    6)  Previously, Shorewall-lite did not allow DHCP traffic through an
        interface when the interface was a bridge with 'dhcp' specified
        unless there was a bridge on the administrative system with the
        same name.

    7)  SOURCE and DEST are now flagged as invalid zone name to avoid
        problems with macros that use those names as keywords.

    8)  Previously, Shorewall could *increase* the MSS under some
        circumstances. This possibility is now eliminated, provided that
        the system has TCPMSS match support (be sure to update your
        capabilities files!).

    9)  Firewall zone names other than 'fw' no longer cause a error when
        IPSECFILE is not set or is set to 'ipsec'.

    10) The 'proxyarp' option on an interface was previously ignored when
        the /etc/shorewall/proxyarp file was empty.

    11) Previously, if action 'a' was defined then the following
        rule generated an error:

             a:        z1   z2      ...

        The trailing ":" is now ignored.

    12) Previously, if a RATE/LIMIT was specified on a REJECT rule, the
        generated error messages referred to the rule as a DROP rule.

    13) The 'nolock' keyword was previously ignored on several
        /sbin/shorewall[-lite] commands.

    Other changes in 3.4.4:

    1)  The accounting, masq, rules and tos files now have a 'MARK' column
        similar to the column of the same name in the tcrules file. This
        column allows filtering by MARK value.

    2)  The "shorewall show zones" command now flags zone members that have
        been added using "shorewall add" by preceding them with a plus sign
        ("+").

        Example:

        Shorewall 3.9.4 Zones at gateway - Mon May 14 07:48:16 PDT 2007

        fw (firewall)
        net (ipv4)
            eth0:0.0.0.0/0
        loc (ipv4)
            br0:0.0.0.0/0
            eth4:0.0.0.0/0
            eth5:0.0.0.0/0
            +eth1:0.0.0.0/0
        dmz (ipv4)
            eth3:0.0.0.0/0
        vpn (ipv4)
            tun+:0.0.0.0/0

        In the above output, "eth1:0.0.0.0/0" was dynamically added to the
        'loc' zone. As part of this change, "shorewall delete" will only
        delete entries that have been added dynamically. In earlier
        versions, any entry could be deleted although the ruleset was only
        changed by deleting entries that had been added dynamically.

    3)  Eariler generations of Shorewall Lite required that remote root
        login via ssh be enabled in order to use the 'load' and 'reload'
        commands.

        Beginning with this release, you may define an alternative means
        for accessing the remote firewall system.

        Two new options have been added to shorewall.conf:

            RSH_COMMAND
            RCP_COMMAND

        The default values for these are as follows:

            RSH_COMMAND: ssh ${root}@${system} ${command}
            RCP_COMMAND: scp ${files} ${root}@${system}:${destination}

        Shell variables that will be set when the commands are envoked are
        as follows:

           root  - root user. Normally 'root' but may be overridden using
                   the '-r' option.

           system - The name/IP address of the remote firewall system.

           command - For RSH_COMMAND, the command to be executed on the
                     firewall system.

           files   - For RCP_COMMAND, a space-separated list of files to
                     be copied to the remote firewall system.

           destination - The directory on the remote system that the files
                         are to be copied into.

    4)  You may now select the compiler to use on the command line using
        the '-C' option. This option is available on the following
        commands:

            check
            compile
            export
            load
            reload
            restart
            start
            try
            safe-start
            save-restart

         Example:

            shorewall try -C perl .

2007-06-12 New Host for www.shorewall.net and ftp.shorewall.net

    I'm pleased to announce that Ty Christiansen and the folks at Master Mind
    Productions (http://mastermindpro.com) have volunteered to host
    www.shorewall.net and ftp.shorewall.net.

    The new site is up and running and I've just changed DNS to point to the new
    server. Let me know if you experience any problems.

    Please join me in thanking Ty and Master Mind for their support of the
    Shorewall project.

2007-04-30 Shorewall 3.4.3

`Problems corrected in Shorewall 3.4.3`

    1) The shorecap program was not loading modules correctly.

    2) The CHAIN variable is now set correctly before the 'maclog' script

       is invoked.

    3) The 'shorewall load' and 'shorewall reload' commands redundently

       re-generated the capabilities file when it resided in the export

       directory.

    4) Setting LOGFILE to the value of a shell variable from the params

       file now works.

    5) The 'shorewall-lite restore' command can fail with a 'startup not

       enabled' error.

    6) When ROUTE_FILTER=Yes in shorewall.conf, Shorewall no longer clears

       the rp_filter flag for all interfaces.

    7) When LOG_MARTIANS=Yes in shorewall.conf, Shorewall no longer clears

       the log_martians flag for all interfaces.

    8) The 'shorewall add' and 'shorewall delete' commands no longer fail

       with the message 'ERROR: Only one firewall zone may be defined'.

    9) It was previously impossible to disable martian logging.

    10) IP addresses (aliases) added by ADD_IP_ALIASES and ADD_SNAT_ALIASES

        are now correctly deleted when Shorewall stops.

    11) The 'shorewall add' and 'shorewall delete' commands no longer fail

        with the error 'Only one firewall zone may be defined'.

    12) The special 'detect' value now works correctly in the ADDRESSES

        column of /etc/shorewall/masq.

    Other changes in Shorewall 3.4.3

    1) A LOCKFILE option has been added to shorewall.conf. This file is

       used to serialize updates to the active firewall configuration.

       If not specified, the defaults are:

> `Shorewall - /var/lib/shorewall/lock`

> `Shorewall Lite - /var/lib/shorewall-lite/lock`

2007-04-08 Shorewall 3.2.10

    Problems Corrected in 3.2.10

    1)  Previously, if a 'start' or 'restart' command failed during the
        compilation step, /sbin/shorewall erroneously returned an exit
        status of zero.

    2)  If IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes was in effect, then sub-zones received the
        implicit CONTINUE policy for their intra-zone traffic (rather than
        the implicit ACCEPT policy for such traffic). This could cause
        intra-zone traffic to be rejected by rules in one of the parent
        zones.

    3) The "shorewall-[lite] [re]start and stop" commands reset the
       proxy_arp flag on all interfaces on the system making it impossible
       to control proxy arp manually with Shorewall installed. With this
       change, shorewall will only clear proxy arp if there were entries in
       /etc/shorewall/proxyarp the last time that Shorewall was
       [re]started.

    4)  The /usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/modules file has been updated for
        kernel 2.6.20.

    5)  The /proc/net/ip_conntrack pseudo-file has been inexplicably
        renamed /proc/net/nf_conntrack in kernel 2.6.20. The lib.cli
        library has been updated to look for both files.

    6)  Tunnels of type 'ipsecnat' failed to work properly due to a missing
        rule.

    7)  The 'shorecap' program was not loading modules correctly.

2007-04-01 Shorewall 3.4.2

    Problems corrected in Shorewall 3.4.2

    1)  The /usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/modules file has been updated for
        kernel 2.6.20.

    2)  The /proc/net/ip_conntrack pseudo-file has been inexplicably
        renamed /proc/net/nf_conntrack in kernel 2.6.20. The lib.cli
        library has been updated to look for both files.

    3)  Shoreall 3.4 was not consistent with respect to its treatment of
        log level 'none' and 'none!' and built-in actions. In particular,
        specifying 'none' with the Limit action produced a run-time error.
        Shorewall now correctly suppresses generation of log messages when
        a log level of 'none' or 'none!' is given to a built-in action.

    4)  Tunnels of type 'ipsecnat' would sometimes fail to work because of
        a missing rule.

2007-03-15 Shorewall 3.4.1

    Problems Corrected in 3.4.1

    1)  The "shorewall-[lite] [re]start and stop" commands reset the
        proxy_arp flag on all interfaces on the system making it impossible
        to control proxy arp manually with Shorewall installed. There was a
         partial fix included in 3.4.0; unfortunately, it did not correct the
        problem completely. Shorewall 3.4.1 includes the rest of the change
        necessarey to only clear proxy arp if there were entries in
        /etc/shorewall/proxyarp the last time that Shorewall was
        [re]started.

    2)  If the log-prefix in a log message exceeded 29 characters,
        'shorewall restart' fails with 'truncate: command not found' and a
        possible segmentation fault in iptables.

    3)  Log messages specifying a log tag had two spaces appended to the
        log prefix. This could cause mysterious "log-prefix truncated"
        messages.

    4)  When nested zones were defined in the /etc/shorewall/zones file and
        IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes was given in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf,
        shell error messages ( usually '<zone>: not found' ) during
        compilation resulted.

    5)  Use of CONTINUE policies lead to startup errors with a message
        such as the following:

           Applying Policies...
           iptables v1.3.7: Couldn't load target
           `CONTINUE':/usr/local/lib/iptables/libipt_CONTINUE.so: cannot open
           shared object file: No such file or directory

           Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.

              ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -A net2c148 -j CONTINUE"
              Failed

    6)  If there were hosts defined as 'critical' in
        /etc/shorewall/routestopped then problems occured in two cases:

        i) On a Shorewall Lite system when 'shorewall stop' or 'shorewall
        clear' was issued.

        ii) On Shorewall or Shorewall lite system when 'start' or 'restart'
        failed during execution of the compiled script and there was no saved
        configuration ('shorewall[-lite] save' has not been issued).

        The symptoms were that the following shell messages were issued and
        the 'critical' hosts were not enabled:

          /var/lib/shorewall/.start: line nnn: source_ip_range: command not found
          /var/lib/shorewall/.start: line nnm: dest_ip_range: command not found

    Other changes in 3.4.1

    1)  Several changes are included which allow testing of experimental
        versions of Shorewall on systems with 3.4.1 and later 3.4 releases
        installed. Among these changes is the detection and reporting of
        "Address Type Match" which may be used in future 3.4 releases.
        These changes have no effect on normal Shorewall operation.

2007-03-10 Shorewall 3.4.0

    Shorewall 3.4.0

    Release Highlights

    1)  Shorewall can now be tailored to reduce its footprint on embedded
        systems. As part of this change, actions are now completely
        optional.

        See http://www.shorewall.net/Modularization.html for details.

    2)  Exclusion is now possible in /etc/shorewall/hosts. This is required
        for bridge/firewalls under kernel 2.6.20 and later.

        See http://www.shorewall.net/NewBridge.html.

    3)  Shorewall and Shorewall Lite now include man pages. There is a
        man page for shorewall(8), one for shorewall-lite(8) and one for
        each configuration file. As part of this change, all documentation
        has been removed from Shorewall configuration files. This should
        make it easier from users to upgrade from one release to the next
        since the configuration files will only change when column is added
        or renamed.

        See http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/Manpages.html

    4)  Shorewall now remembers the changes that it has made to routing as
        a result of entries in /etc/shorewall/providers and
        /etc/shorewall/route_rules and reverses those changes when
        appropriate.

    Problems Corrected in 3.4.0 Final.

    1)  In the rules file, following the action with "!" is supposed to
        exempt the rule from being suppressed by OPTIMIZE=1. That feature
        was not working.

    2)  If both a macro body and a macro invocation contained an entry in the
        SOURCE or DEST column, then compilation failed with the error:

               merge_macro_source_dest: command not found

    3)  An obscure bug in rule activation having to do with the new
        exclusion feature in /etc/shorewall/hosts has been corrected.

    4) The "shorewall-[lite] [re]start and stop" commands reset the
       proxy_arp flag on all interfaces on the system making it impossible
       to control proxy arp manually with Shorewall installed. With this
       change, shorewall will only clear proxy arp if there were entries in
       /etc/shorewall/proxyarp the last time that Shorewall was
       [re]started.

    New Features in Shorewall 3.4:

    1)  In order to accomodate small embedded applications, Shorewall 3.4
        is now modularized. In addition to the base files, there are
        loadable "libraries" that may be included or omitted from an
        embedded system as required.

        Loadable Shorewall libraries reside in /usr/share/shorewall/ and
        have names that begin with "lib.". The following libraries are
        included in Shorewall 3.4:

        - lib.accounting. Must be available if you include entries in
          /etc/shorewall/accounting.

        - lib.actions. Must be available if you do not specify
          USE_ACTIONS=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.

        - lib.base. The base Shorewall library required by all programs,
          including compiled firewall scripts. This library is also
          released as part of Shorewall Lite and is installed in
          /usr/share/shorewall-lite/.

        - lib.cli. Library containing the code common to /sbin/shorewall,
          /sbin/shorewall-lite. This library is also released as part of
          Shorewall Lite and is installed in /usr/share/shorewall-lite/.

        - lib.config. Library containing the code that is common to
          /usr/share/shorewall/compiler and /usr/share/shorewall/firewall.

        - lib.dynamiczones. Must be available if you specify
          DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes in shorewall.conf.

        - lib.maclist. Must be available if you specify the 'maclist'
          option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces or /etc/shorewall/hosts.

        - lib.nat. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/masq, /etc/shorewall/nat or /etc/shorewall/netmap
          or if you use DNAT or REDIRECT rules.

        - lib.providers. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/providers.

        - lib.proxyarp. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/proxyarp or if you specify the 'proxyarp' option
          in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.

        - lib.tc. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and /etc/shorewall/tcclasses.

        - lib.tcrules. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/tcrules.

        - lib.tunnels. Must be available if you have entries in
          /etc/shorewall/tunnels.

        Embedded applications can further decrease the size of the Shorewall
        footprint by:

        - Omitting the macro files.
        - Omitting all unused extension scripts.

        See http://www.shorewall.net/Modularization.html for additional
        details.

    2)  As hinted in the previous bullet, there is a new USE_ACTIONS option
        in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. Shorewall actions can be very
        powerful but they also require a lot of code to implement. Embedded
        applications can omit that code by setting
        USE_ACTIONS=No. Shorewall will ignore all action-related files
        including /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std and
        /etc/shorewall/actions. Builtin actions will still be available for
        use in rules and macros.

        The 'Limit' action has been converted to a builtin so that Limit is
        available even when USE_ACTIONS=No.

        See the next item for more information.

    3)  Prior to Shorewall 3.4, default actions were specified in
        /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std or in /etc/shorewall/actions.

        This approach has two drawbacks:

        a) All DROP policies must use the same default action and all
           REJECT policies must use the same default action.

        b) Now that we have modularized action processing (see the New
           Features section below), we need a way to define default rules
           for a policy that does not involve actions.

        The solution is two-fold:

        - Four new options have been added to the
          /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file that allow specifying the
           default action for DROP, REJECT, ACCEPT and QUEUE.

           The options are DROP_DEFAULT, REJECT_DEFAULT, ACCEPT_DEFAULT and
           QUEUE_DEFAULT.

           DROP_DEFAULT describes the rules to be applied before a
           connection request is dropped by a DROP policy; REJECT_DEFAULT
           describes the rules to be applied if a connection request is
           rejected by a REJECT policy. The other two are similar for
           ACCEPT and QUEUE policies.

           The value assigned to these may be:

            a) The name of an action.
            b) The name of a macro
            c) 'None' or 'none'

           The default values are:

            DROP_DEFAULT="Drop"
            REJECT_DEFAULT="Reject"
            ACCEPT_DEFAULT=none
            QUEUE_DEFAULT=none

           If USE_ACTIONS=Yes, then these values refer to action.Drop and
           action.Reject respectively. If USE_ACTIONS=No, then these values
           refer to macro.Drop and macro.Reject.

           If you set the value of either option to "None" then no default
           action will be used and the default action or macro (if any)
           must be specified in /etc/shorewall/policy

        - The POLICY column in /etc/shorewall/policy has been extended.

           In /etc/shorewall/policy, when the POLICY is DROP, REJECT,
           ACCEPT or QUEUE then the policy may be followed by ":" and one
           of the following:

            a) The word "None" or "none". This causes any default
               action defined in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
               to be omitted for this policy.
            b) The name of an action (requires that USE_ACTIONS=Yes
               in shorewall.conf). That action will be invoked
               before the policy is enforced.
            c) The name of a macro. The rules in that macro will
               be applied before the policy is enforced. This
               does not require USE_ACTIONS=Yes.<
    br>
        Example:

            #SOURCE         DEST            POLICY          LOG
            #                                               LEVEL
            loc             net             ACCEPT
            net             all             DROP:MyDrop     info
            #
            # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
            #
            all             all             REJECT:MyReject info

    4)  For users whose kernel and iptables have Extended MARK Target
        support, it is now possible to logically AND or OR a value into the
        current packet mark by preceding the mark value (and optional mask)
        with an ampersand ("&") or vertical bar ("|") respectively.

        Example: To logically OR the value 4 into the mark value for
        packets from 192.168.1.1:

        #MARK   SOURCE
        |4      192.168.1.1

    5)  Previously, zone names were restricted to five characters in
        length. That limit derives from the --log-prefix in Netfilter log
        messages which must be 29 bytes or less in length. With the
        standard Shorewall LOGFORMAT, that leaves 11 characters for the
        chain name; given that many chain names are of the form
        <zone1>2<zone2>, that gives a maximum zone name length of 5.

        Beginning with this release, the maximum length of a zone name is
        dependent on the LOGFORMAT (the maximum length may never be less
        than 5 but it may be greater than 5). For example, setting
        LOGFORMAT="FW:%s:%s:" will allow zone names of up to 8 characters.

    6)  Netfilter provides support for attachment of comments to Netfilter
        rules. Comments can be up to 255 bytes in length and are visible
        using the "shorewall show <chain>", "shorewall show nat",
        "shorewall show mangle" and "shorewall dump" commands. Comments are
        delimited by '/* ... */" in the output.

        Beginning with Shorewall 3.4, you may place COMMENT lines in the
        /etc/shorewall/rules, /etc/shorewall/tcrules, /etc/shorewall/nat
        and /etc/shorewall/masq files and in action files. The remainder of
        the line is treated as a comment and it will be attached as a
        Netfilter comment to the rule(s) generated by succeding entries
        in the file.

        Note: Do not prefix the comment with "#". Shorewall's two-pass
        compiler strips off "#" comments in the first pass and processes
        COMMENT lines in the second pass. Hence, by the time that COMMENT
        is processed, the "#" and everything following it has been removed
        (see example below).

        To stop the current comment from being attached to further
        rules, simply include COMMENT on a line by itself (so that the
        following rules will have no comment) or specify a new COMMENT.

        If you do not have Comment support in your iptables/kernel (see the
        output of "shorewall[-lite] show capabilities") then COMMENTS are
        ignored with this warning:

         COMMENT ignored --  requires comment support in iptables/Netfilter

        Example from my rules file:

                #SOURCE      SOURCE     DEST       PROTO DEST PORT(S)

                COMMENT Stop Microsoft Noise

                REJECT       loc        net        tcp   137,445
                REJECT       loc        net        udp   137:139

                COMMENT  # Stop comment from being attached to rules below

        The output of "shorewall show loc2net" includes (folded):

        0     0 reject     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
              0.0.0.0/0    multiport dports 137,445 /* Stop Microsoft Noise */
        0     0 reject     udp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
              0.0.0.0/0    udp dpts:137:139 /* Stop Microsoft Noise */

    7)  A new macro (macro.RDP) has been added for Microsoft Remote
        Desktop. This macro was contributed by Tuomo Soini.

    8)  A new 'maclog' extension file has been added. This file is
        processed just before logging based on the setting of
        MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL is done. When the extension is invoked, the CHAIN
        variable will contain the name of the chain where rules should be
        inserted. Remember that if you have specified MACLIST_TABLE=mangle,
        then your run_iptables commands should include "-t mangle".

    9)  The SUBNET column in /etc/shorewall/masq has been renamed SOURCE to
        more accurately describe the contents of the column.

    10) Previously, it was not possible to use exclusion in
        /etc/shorewall/hosts. Beginning with this release, you may now use
        exclusion lists in entries in this file. Exclusion lists are
        discussed at:

           http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Exclusion.

        Example:

            loc     eth0:192.168.1.0/24!192.168.1.4,192.168.1.16/28

        In that example, the 'loc' zone is defined to be the subnet
        192.168.1.0/24 interfacing via eth0 *except* for host 192.168.1.4
        and hosts in the sub-network 192.168.1.16/28.

    11) New "shorewall[-lite] show ip" and "shorewall[-lite] show routing"
        commands have been added. The first produces the same output as "ip
        addr ls". The second produces a report about your routing rules and
        tables.

    12) Beginning with this release, Shorewall and Shorewall Lite will
        share common change logs and release notes.

    13) In Shorewall versions prior to 3.4, multiple jumps to a '2all'
        chain could be generated in succession.

        Example from an earlier shorewall version:

        gateway:~ # shorewall-lite show eth2_fwd
        Shorewall Lite 3.4.0-Beta1 Chains eth2_fwd at gateway - Thu Oct 19 08:54:37 PDT 2006

        Counters reset Thu Oct 19 08:34:47 PDT 2006

        Chain eth2_fwd (1 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source            destination
            0     0 dynamic    all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state INVALID,NEW
            0     0 wifi2all   all  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
            0     0 wifi2all   all  --  *      br0     0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
            0     0 wifi2all   all  --  *      eth3    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
            0     0 wifi2all   all  --  *      tun+    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
        gateway:~ #

        This redundancy may be eliminated by setting OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf.

        gateway:~ # shorewall-lite show eth2_fwd
        Shorewall Lite 3.4.0-Beta1 Chains eth2_fwd at gateway - Thu Oct 19 09:15:24 PDT 2006

        Counters reset Thu Oct 19 09:15:19 PDT 2006

        Chain eth2_fwd (1 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
            0     0 dynamic    all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           state INVALID,NEW
            0     0 wifi2all   all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
        gateway:~ #

        Note that with OPTIMIZE=1, traffic destined for an
        interface/Address that falls outside of all defined zones may now
        be logged out of a '2all' chain rather than out of the FORWARD
        chain.

        The OPTIMIZE setting also controls the suppression of redundant
        wildcard rules (those specifying "all" in the SOURCE or DEST
        column). A wildcard rule is considered to be redundant when it
        has the same ACTION and Log Level as the applicable policy.

        Example:

            /etc/shorewall/policy

            #SOURCE         DEST            POLICY          LEVEL
            loc             net             ACCEPT

            /etc/shorewall/rules

            #ACTION         SOURCE          DEST    PROTO   DEST
            #                                               PORT(S)
            ...
            ACCEPT          all             all     icmp    8

        OPTIMIZE=0

        gateway:~ # shorewall show loc2net
        Shorewall Lite 3.4.0-Beta1 Chains loc2net at gateway - Thu Oct 26 07:55:03 PDT 2006

        Counters reset Thu Oct 26 07:54:58 PDT 2006<
    br>
        Chain loc2net (1 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
          ...
            0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *      !192.168.0.0/22       0.0.0.0/0
            0     0 ACCEPT     icmp --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0           icmp type 8
            0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

        gateway:~

        OPTIMIZE=1

        gateway:~ # shorewall show loc2net
        Shorewall Lite 3.4.0-Beta1 Chains loc2net at gateway - Thu Oct 26 07:57:12 PDT 2006

        Counters reset Thu Oct 26 07:56:38 PDT 2006

        Chain loc2net (1 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
          ...
            0     0 DROP       all  --  *      *      !192.168.0.0/22       0.0.0.0/0
            0     0 ACCEPT     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

        gateway:~

        If you really want a rule that duplicates the policy, follow the
        action with "!":

            #ACTION         SOURCE          DEST    PROTO   DEST
            #                                               PORT(S)
            ...
            ACCEPT!         all             all     icmp    8

    14) IP Address ranges are now allowed in the drop, reject, allow and
        logdrop shorewall[-lite] commands.

    15) Previously, Shorewall has not attempted to undo the changes it has
        made to the firewall's routing as a result of entries in
        /etc/shorewall/providers and /etc/shorewall/routes. Beginning with
        this release, Shorewall will attempt to undo these changes.

        When Shorewall starts or is restarted and there are entries in
        /etc/shorewall/providers, Shorewall will capture the contents
        of /etc/shorewall/rt_tables and will restore that database when
        Shorewall is stopped or restarted. Similarly, the default route
        will be captured the first time that you [re]start Shorewall using
        this version and will be restored under the following conditions:

        a) shorewall stop
        b) shorewall clear
        c) shorewall restart or restore and there are no entries in
           /etc/shorewall/providers.

        Once the default route has been restored, Shorewall will delete
        the saved copy so that it will once again be captured at the next
        shorewall start or shorewall restore.

    16) Shorewall no longer includes policy matches in its generated
        ruleset when no IPSEC zones or IPSEC networks are defined (IPSEC
        networks are defined using the 'ipsec' option in
        /etc/shorewall/hosts).

    17) The Makefile installed in /usr/share/shorewall/configfiles/ is now
        the same one mentioned at
        http://www.shorewall.net/CompiledPrograms.html.

        Once the file is copied into an export directory, you modify the
        setting of the HOST variable to match the name of the remote
        firewall.

        The default target is the "firewall" script so "make" compiles the
        firewall script if any of the configuration files have
        changed. "make install" builds "firewall" if necessary then
        installs it on the remote firewall. "make capabilities" will
        generate the "capabilities" file. "make save" will save the running
        configuration on the remote firewall.

    18) Shorewall and Shorewall Lite now include the following manpages.

                  shorewall-accounting(5)
                  shorewall-actions(5)
                  shorewall-blacklist(5)
                  shorewall.conf(5)
                  shorewall-ecn(5)
                  shorewall-exclusion(5)
                  shorewall-hosts(5)
                  shorewall-interfaces(5)
                  shorewall-lite.conf(5)
                  shorewall-lite(8)
                  shorewall-maclist(5)
                  shorewall-masq(5)
                  shorewall-nat(5)
                  shorewall-nesting(5)
                  shorewall-netmap(5)
                  shorewall-params(5)
                  shorewall-policy(5)
                  shorewall-providers(5)
                  shorewall-proxyarp(5)
                  shorewall-rfc1918(5)
                  shorewall-route_rules(5)
                  shorewall-routestopped(5)
                  shorewall-rules(5)
                  shorewall-tcclasses(5)
                  shorewall-tcdevices(5)
                  shorewall-tcrules(5)
                  shorewall-template(5)
                  shorewall-tos(5)
                  shorewall-tunnels(5)
                  shorewall(8)
                  shorewall-zones(5)

        Now that the manpages are in place, command-specific help has been
        removed since it duplicates information in the man pages.

    19) From the beginning, the Shorewall configuration files in
        /etc/shorewall/ have contained documentary comments. While these
        comments are useful, they present an upgrade problem. Beginning
        with this release, these comments are removed from the
        configuration files themselves and are replaced by the manpages
        described in the preceding release note entry.

    20) Shorewall now uses tc fwmark filters to classify packets for
        traffic shaping when the DEVICE isn't an interface described in
        /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This is in preparation for the upcoming
        change to the way that --physdev-out works in iptables/Netfilter;
        that change is now scheduled for kernel 2.6.20.

    21) If your kernel and iptables have extended multiport support, then
        Shorewall will use that support for the destination port when
        generating rules from entries in the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file.
    22) The 'safe-start' and 'safe-restart' command have been
        improved. Both now accept an optional directory name; if supplied,
        Shorewall will look first in that directory for configuration
        files.

        The commands have also been enhanced to only restore the
        configuration once in the event of a failure. Previously, if there
        was a current 'save' command in effect, then that configuration
        would be restored on a failure and then the last-running
        configuration would be restored.

    23) The 'try' command has been reimplemented with new semantics.

        If Shorewall is started then the firewall state is saved to a
        temporary saved configuration (/var/lib/shorewall/.try). Next, if
        Shorewall is currently started then a restart command is issued;
        otherwise, a start command is performed. if an error occurs during
        the  compliation phase  of  the  restart or start, the command
        terminates without changing the Shorewall state. If an error occurs
        during the restart phase, then a 'shorewall restore' is performed
        using the saved configuration. If an error occurs during the start
        phase, then Shorewall is  cleared. If the start/restart succeeds
        and a timeout is specified then a 'clear' or 'restore' is performed
        after timeout seconds.

    24) The syntax of the 'export' command has been made slightly
        friendlier.

        The old syntax:

            export <directory1> [user@]system:[<directory2>]

        It is now:

            export <directory1> [user@]system[:<directory2>]

        In other words, if you don't need to specify <directory2>, you may
        omit the colon (":") following the system name.

        The old syntax is still accepted -- that is, you can still
        type:

            export firewall2:

        which is equivalent to

            export firewall2

    25) Shorewall commands may be speeded up slightly by using a
        'capabilities' file. The 'capabilities' file was originally
        designed for use with Shorewall Lite and records the
        iptables/Netfilter features available on the target system.

        To generate a capabilities file, execute the following command as
        root:

          shorewall show -f capabilities > /etc/shorewall/capabil
    ities

        When you install a new kernel and/or iptables, be sure to generate
        a new capabilities file.

    26) When syslogd is run with the -C option (which in some
        implementations causes syslogd to log to an in-memory circular
        buffer), /sbin/shorewall will now use the 'logread' command to read
        the log from that buffer. This is for combatibility with OpenWRT.

    27) There is now a ":T" qualifier in /etc/shorewall/tcrules which
        causes the resulting rule to be inserted into the POSTROUTING
        chain.

    28) The program /usr/share/shorewall/wait4ifup can be used to wait for
        a network device (such as a ppp device) to reach the UP state.

            /usr/share/shorewall/wait4ifup <interface> [ <seconds> ]

        The program will wait for up to <seconds> seconds for the
        named <interface> to reach the UP state. If <seconds> is not given,
        60 seconds is assumed.

        The exit status is zero if <interface> comes up within <seconds>
        seconds and non-zero otherwise.

    29) Previously, 'ipsecnat' tunnels allowed AH traffic by default
        (unless 'isecnat:noah' was given). Given that AH is incompatible
        with nat-traversal, 'ipsecnat' now implies 'ipsecnat:noah'.

    30) Shorewall now generates half as many rules as previously in the
        'blacklst' chain when BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL is specified.

    31) Beginning with Shorewall 3.4.0, if EXPORTPARAMS=No in
        shorewall.conf then Shorewall will not process
        /etc/shorewall/params when the compiled script is run. With
        EXPORTPARAMS=No, any shell variables needed at run-time must be set
        in /etc/shorewall/init.

        In a Shorewall/Shorewall Lite environment, this allows
        /etc/shorewall/params to be written to run exclusively
        on the administrative system while /etc/shorewall/init runs
        exclusively on the firewall system.

        So shell variables required at compile time may be set in
        /etc/shorewall/params and those required at run-time may be set in
        /etc/shorewall/init.

        Note 1: If you need shell variables values in your
        /etc/shorewall/stop or /etc/shorewall/stopped script, then you need
        to set their values in /etc/shorewall/stop. /etc/shorewall/init is
        not invoked during processing of the 'stop' and 'clear' commands.

        Note 2: EXPORTPARAMS was actually introduced in Shorewall version
        3.2.9. It is described here for the benefit of those who did not
        install that version.

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