shorewall_code/Shorewall-docs2/Accounting.xml

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    <title>Shorewall Traffic Accounting</title>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>Tom</firstname>

        <surname>Eastep</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <pubdate>2005-08-28</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2003-2005</year>

      <holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
      1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
      no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
      Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      <quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
      License</ulink></quote>.</para>
    </legalnotice>
  </articleinfo>

  <para>Shorewall accounting rules are described in the file
  /etc/shorewall/accounting. By default, the accounting rules are placed in a
  chain called <quote>accounting</quote> and can thus be displayed using
  <quote>shorewall show accounting</quote>. All traffic passing into, out of
  or through the firewall traverses the accounting chain including traffic
  that will later be rejected by interface options such as
  <quote>tcpflags</quote> and <quote>maclist</quote>. If your kernel doesn't
  support the connection tracking match extension (Kernel 2.4.21) then some
  traffic rejected under <quote>norfc1918</quote> will not traverse the
  accounting chain.</para>

  <para>The columns in the accounting file are as follows:</para>

  <itemizedlist>
    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">ACTION </emphasis>- What to do when a match
      is found. Possible values are:</para>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>COUNT- Simply count the match and continue trying to match the
          packet with the following accounting rules</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>DONE- Count the match and don't attempt to match any following
          accounting rules.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para><emphasis>&lt;chain&gt;</emphasis> - The name of a chain to
          jump to. Shorewall will create the chain automatically. If the name
          of the chain is followed by <quote>:COUNT</quote> then a COUNT rule
          matching this rule will automatically be added to &lt;chain&gt;.
          Chain names must start with a letter, must be composed of letters
          and digits, and may contain underscores (<quote>_</quote>) and
          periods (<quote>.</quote>). Beginning with Shorewall version 1.4.8,
          chain names man also contain embedded dashes (<quote>-</quote>) and
          are not required to start with a letter.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">CHAIN</emphasis> - The name of the chain
      where the accounting rule is to be added. If empty or <quote>-</quote>
      then the <quote>accounting</quote> chain is assumed.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">SOURCE</emphasis> - Packet Source. The name
      of an interface, an address (host or net) or an interface name followed
      by <quote>:</quote> and a host or net address.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">DESTINATION</emphasis> - Packet Destination
      Format the same as the SOURCE column.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">PROTOCOL</emphasis> - A protocol name (from
      <filename>/etc/protocols</filename>), a protocol number or "ipp2p". For
      "ipp2p", your kernel and iptables must have ipp2p match support from
      <ulink url="http://www.netfilter.org">Netfilter
      Patch_o_matic_ng</ulink>.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">DEST PORT</emphasis> - Destination Port
      number. Service name from <filename>/etc/services</filename> or port
      number. May only be specified if the protocol is TCP or UDP (6 or 17).
      If the PROTOCOL is "ipp2p", then this column is interpreted as an ipp2p
      option without the leading "--" (default "ipp2p"). For a list of value
      ipp2p options, as root type <command>iptables -m ipp2p
      --help</command>.</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">SOURCE PORT</emphasis>- Source Port number.
      Service name from /etc/services or port number. May only be specified if
      the protocol is TCP or UDP (6 or 17).</para>
    </listitem>

    <listitem>
      <para><emphasis role="bold">USER/GROUP</emphasis> - This column may only
      be non-empty if the CHAIN is OUTPUT. The column may contain:</para>

      <programlisting> [!][&lt;user name or number&gt;][:&lt;group name or number&gt;]</programlisting>

      <para>When this column is non-empty, the rule applies only if the
      program generating the output is running under the effective
      &lt;user&gt; and/or &lt;group&gt; specified (or is NOT running under
      that id if "!" is given).</para>

      <para>Examples:</para>

      <simplelist>
        <member>joe #program must be run by joe</member>

        <member>:kids #program must be run by a member of the 'kids'
        group.</member>

        <member>!:kids #program must not be run by a member of the 'kids'
        group</member>
      </simplelist>
    </listitem>
  </itemizedlist>

  <para>In all columns except ACTION and CHAIN, the values
  <quote>-</quote>,<quote>any</quote> and <quote>all</quote> are treated as
  wild-cards.</para>

  <para>The accounting rules are evaluated in the Netfilter
  <quote>filter</quote> table. This is the same environment where the
  <quote>rules</quote> file rules are evaluated and in this environment, DNAT
  has already occurred in inbound packets and SNAT has not yet occurred on
  outbound ones.</para>

  <para>Accounting rules are not stateful -- each rule only handles traffic in
  one direction. For example, if eth0 is your internet interface and you have
  a web server in your DMZ connected to eth1 then to count HTTP traffic in
  both directions requires two rules:</para>

  <programlisting>        #ACTION CHAIN   SOURCE  DESTINATION     PROTOCOL        DEST            SOURCE
        #                                                       PORT            PORT
        DONE    -       eth0    eth1            tcp             80
        DONE    -       eth1    eth0            tcp             -               80</programlisting>

  <para>Associating a counter with a chain allows for nice reporting. For
  example:</para>

  <programlisting>        #ACTION         CHAIN   SOURCE  DESTINATION     PROTOCOL        DEST            SOURCE
        #                                                               PORT            PORT
        web:COUNT       -       eth0    eth1            tcp             80
        web:COUNT       -       eth1    eth0            tcp             -               80
        web:COUNT       -       eth0    eth1            tcp             443
        web:COUNT       -       eth1    eth0            tcp             -               443
        DONE            web</programlisting>

  <para>Now <quote>shorewall show web</quote> will give you a breakdown of
  your web traffic:</para>

  <programlisting>     [root@gateway shorewall]# shorewall show web
     Shorewall-1.4.6-20030821 Chain web at gateway.shorewall.net - Wed Aug 20 09:48:56 PDT 2003
     
     Counters reset Wed Aug 20 09:48:00 PDT 2003

     Chain web (4 references)
     pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
       11  1335            tcp  --  eth0   eth1    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
       18  1962            tcp  --  eth1   eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:80
        0     0            tcp  --  eth0   eth1    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
        0     0            tcp  --  eth1   eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:443
       29  3297 RETURN     all  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
       [root@gateway shorewall]#</programlisting>

  <para>Here is a slightly different example:</para>

  <programlisting>        #ACTION         CHAIN   SOURCE  DESTINATION     PROTOCOL        DEST            SOURCE
        #                                                               PORT            PORT
        web             -       eth0    eth1            tcp             80
        web             -       eth1    eth0            tcp             -               80
        web             -       eth0    eth1            tcp             443
        web             -       eth1    eth0            tcp             -               443
        COUNT           web     eth0    eth1
        COUNT           web     eth1    eth0</programlisting>

  <para>Now <quote>shorewall show web</quote> simply gives you a breakdown by
  input and output:</para>

  <programlisting>     [root@gateway shorewall]# shorewall show accounting web
     Shorewall-1.4.6-20030821 Chains accounting web at gateway.shorewall.net - Wed Aug 20 10:27:21 PDT 2003

     Counters reset Wed Aug 20 10:24:33 PDT 2003

     Chain accounting (3 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
         8767  727K web        tcp  --  eth0   eth1    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
            0     0 web        tcp  --  eth0   eth1    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
        11506   13M web        tcp  --  eth1   eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:80
            0     0 web        tcp  --  eth1   eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:443

     Chain web (4 references)
         pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
         8767  727K            all  --  eth0   eth1    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
        11506   13M            all  --  eth1   eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
     [root@gateway shorewall]#</programlisting>

  <para>Here's how the same example would be constructed on an HTTP server
  with only one interface (eth0).</para>

  <caution>
    <para>READ THE ABOVE CAREFULLY -- IT SAYS <emphasis
    role="bold">SERVER</emphasis>. If you want to account for web browsing,
    you have to reverse the rules below.</para>
  </caution>

  <programlisting>        #ACTION         CHAIN   SOURCE  DESTINATION     PROTOCOL        DEST            SOURCE
        #                                                               PORT            PORT
        web             -       eth0    -               tcp             80
        web             -       -       eth0            tcp             -               80
        web             -       eth0    -               tcp             443
        web             -       -       eth0            tcp             -               443
        COUNT           web     eth0
        COUNT           web     -       eth0</programlisting>

  <para>Note that with only one interface, only the SOURCE (for input rules)
  or the DESTINATION (for output rules) is specified in each rule.</para>

  <para>Here's the output:</para>

  <programlisting>     [root@mail shorewall]# shorewall show accounting web Shorewall-1.4.7
     Chains accounting web at mail.shorewall.net - Sun Oct 12 10:27:21 PDT 2003

     Counters reset Sat Oct 11 08:12:57 PDT 2003

     Chain accounting (3 references)
      pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
      8767  727K web        tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:80
     11506   13M web        tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:80
         0     0 web        tcp  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp dpt:443
         0     0 web        tcp  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0          tcp spt:443

     Chain web (4 references)
      pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination
      8767  727K            all  --  eth0   *       0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
     11506   13M            all  --  *      eth0    0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0
     [root@mail shorewall]#</programlisting>

  <para>For an example of integrating Shorewall Accounting with MRTG, see
  <ulink
  url="http://www.nightbrawler.com/code/shorewall-stats/">http://www.nightbrawler.com/code/shorewall-stats/</ulink>.</para>
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