shorewall_code/Shorewall-docsN/Multiple_Zones.xml

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  <articleinfo>
    <title>Routing on One Interface</title>

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

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

    <pubdate>2004-03-15</pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2003</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>

  <section>
    <title>Introduction</title>

    <para>While most configurations can be handled with each of the
    firewall&#39;s network interfaces assigned to a single zone, there are
    cases where you will want to divide the hosts accessed through an
    interface between two or more zones.</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>The interface has multiple addresses on multiple subnetworks.
        This case is covered in the <ulink
        url="Shorewall_and_Aliased_Interfaces.html">Aliased Interface
        documentation</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>You are using some form of NAT and want to access a server by
        its external IP address from the same LAN segment. This is covered in
        <ulink url="FAQ.htm#faq2">FAQs 2 and 2a</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>There are routers accessible through the interface and you want
        to treat the networks accessed through that router as a separate zone.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Some of the hosts accessed through an interface have
        significantly different firewalling requirements from the others so
        you want to assign them to a different zone.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>The key points to keep in mind when setting up multiple zones per
    interface are:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Shorewall generates rules for zones in the order that the zone
        declarations appear in /etc/shorewall/zones.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>The order of entries in /etc/shorewall/hosts is immaterial as
        far as the generated ruleset is concerned.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para><emphasis role="bold">These examples use the local zone but the same
    technique works for any zone.</emphasis> Remember that Shorewall
    doesn&#39;t have any conceptual knowledge of <quote>Internet</quote>,
    <quote>Local</quote>, or <quote>DMZ</quote> so all zones except the
    firewall itself ($FW) are the same as far as Shorewall is concerned. Also,
    the examples use private (RFC 1918) addresses but public IP addresses can
    be used in exactly the same way.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Router in the Local Zone</title>

    <para>Here is an example of a router in the local zone.</para>

    <note>
      <para>the <emphasis role="bold">box called <quote>Router</quote> could
      be a VPN server</emphasis> or other such device; from the point of view
      of this discussion, it makes no difference.</para>
    </note>

    <graphic fileref="images/MultiZone1.png" />

    <section>
      <title>Can You Use the Standard Configuration?</title>

      <para>In many cases, the <ulink url="two-interface.htm">standard
      two-interface Shorewall setup</ulink> will work fine in this
      configuration. It will work if:</para>

      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>The firewall requirements to/from the internet are the same
          for 192.168.1.0/24 and 192.168.2.0/24.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>The hosts in 192.168.1.0/24 know that the route to
          192.168.2.0/24 is through the <emphasis role="bold">router</emphasis>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      <para>All you have to do on the firewall is add a route to
      192.168.2.0/24 through the <emphasis role="bold">router</emphasis> and
      restart Shorewall.</para>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>Will One Zone be Enough?</title>

      <para>If the firewalling requirements for the two local networks is the
      same but the hosts in 192.168.1.0/24 don&#39;t know how to route to
      192.168.2.0/24 then you need to configure the firewall slightly
      differently. This type of configuration is rather stupid from an IP
      networking point of view but it is sometimes necessary because you
      simply don&#39;t want to have to reconfigure all of the hosts in
      192.168.1.0/24 to add a persistent route to 192.168.2.0/24. On the
      firewall:</para>

      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Add a route to 192.168.2.0/24 through the <emphasis
          role="bold">Router</emphasis>.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Set the <quote>routeback</quote> and <quote>newnotsyn</quote>
          options for eth1 (the local firewall interface) in
          /etc/shorewall/interfaces.</para>
        </listitem>

        <listitem>
          <para>Restart Shorewall.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </section>

    <section>
      <title>I Need Separate Zones</title>

      <para>If you need to make 192.168.2.0/24 into it&#39;s own zone, you can
      do it one of two ways; Nested Zones or Parallel Zones.</para>

      <section>
        <title>Nested Zones</title>

        <para>You can define one zone (called it <quote>loc</quote>) as being
        all hosts connectied to eth1 and a second zone <quote>loc1</quote>
        (192.168.2.0/24) as a sub-zone.</para>

        <graphic fileref="images/MultiZone1A.png" />

        <para>The advantage of this approach is that the zone <quote>loc1</quote>
        can use CONTINUE policies such that if a connection request
        doesn&#39;t match a <quote>loc1</quote> rule, it will be matched
        against the <quote>loc</quote> rules. For example, if your
        loc1-&#62;net policy is CONTINUE then if a connection request from
        loc1 to the internet doesn&#39;t match any rules for loc1-&#62;net
        then it will be checked against the loc-&#62;net rules.</para>

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               DISPLAY             COMMENTS
loc1                Local1              Hosts accessed through internal router
loc                 Local               All hosts accessed via eth1</programlisting>

        <note>
          <para>the sub-zone (loc1) is defined first!</para>
        </note>

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               INTERFACE           BROADCAST
loc                 eth1                192.168.1.255</programlisting>

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/hosts</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               HOSTS
loc1                eth1:192.168.2.0/24</programlisting>

        <para>If you don&#39;t need Shorewall to set up infrastructure to
        route traffic between <quote>loc</quote> and <quote>loc1</quote>, add
        these two policies.</para>

        <para>/etc/shorewall/policy</para>

        <programlisting>#SOURCE             DEST                 POLICY
loc                 loc1                 NONE
loc1                loc                  NONE</programlisting>
      </section>

      <section>
        <title>Parallel Zones</title>

        <para>You define both zones in the /etc/shorewall/hosts file to create
        two disjoint zones.</para>

        <graphic fileref="images/MultiZone1B.png" />

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               DISPLAY             COMMENTS
loc1                Local1              Hosts accessed Directly from Firewall
loc2                Local2              Hosts accessed via the internal Router</programlisting>

        <note>
          <para>Here it doesn&#39;t matter which zone is defined first.</para>
        </note>

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               INTERFACE           BROADCAST
-                   eth1                192.168.1.255</programlisting>

        <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/hosts</filename></para>

        <programlisting>#ZONE               HOSTS
loc1                eth1:192.168.1.0/24
loc2                eth1:192.168.2.0/24</programlisting>

        <para>You don&#39;t need Shorewall to set up infrastructure to route
        traffic between <quote>loc</quote> and <quote>loc1</quote>, so add
        these two policies:</para>

        <programlisting>#SOURCE             DEST                 POLICY
loc1                loc2                 NONE
loc2                loc1                 NONE</programlisting>
      </section>
    </section>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Some Hosts have Special Firewalling Requirements</title>

    <para>There are cases where a subset of the addresses associated with an
    interface need special handling. Here&#39;s an example.</para>

    <graphic fileref="images/MultiZone2.png" />

    <para>In this example, addresses 192.168.1.8 - 192.168.1.15
    (192.168.1.8/29) are to be treated as their own zone (loc1).</para>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#ZONE               DISPLAY             COMMENTS
loc1                Local1              192.168.1.8-192.168.1.15
loc                 Local               All hosts accessed via eth1</programlisting>

    <note>
      <para>the sub-zone (loc1) is defined first!</para>
    </note>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#ZONE               INTERFACE           BROADCAST
loc                 eth1                192.168.1.255</programlisting>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/hosts</filename><programlisting>#ZONE               HOSTS
loc1                eth1:192.168.1.8/29</programlisting></para>

    <para>You probably don&#39;t want Shorewall to set up infrastructure to
    route traffic between <quote>loc</quote> and <quote>loc1</quote> so you
    should add these two policies.</para>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/policy</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#SOURCE             DEST                 POLICY
loc                 loc1                 NONE
loc1                loc                  NONE</programlisting>
  </section>

  <section id="OneArmed">
    <title>One-armed Router</title>

    <para>Nested zones may also be used to configure a <quote>one-armed</quote>
    router (I don&#39;t call it a <quote>firewall</quote> because it is very
    insecure. For example, if you connect to the internet via cable modem,
    your next door neighbor has full access to your local systems as does
    everyone else connected to the same cable modem head-end controller). Here
    eth0 is configured with both a public IP address and an RFC 1918 address
    (More on that topic may be found <ulink
    url="Shorewall_and_Aliased_Interfaces.html">here</ulink>). Hosts in the
    <quote>loc</quote> zone are configured with their default gateway set to
    the Shorewall router&#39;s RFC1918 address.</para>

    <para><graphic fileref="images/MultiZone3.png" /></para>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#ZONE               DISPLAY             COMMENTS
loc                 Local               Local Zone
net                 Internet            The big bad Internet</programlisting>

    <note>
      <para>the sub-zone (loc) is defined first!</para>
    </note>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#ZONE               INTERFACE           BROADCAST
net                 eth0                detect</programlisting>

    <para><filename>/etc/shorewall/hosts</filename></para>

    <programlisting>#ZONE               HOSTS                              OPTIONS
loc                 eth0:192.168.1.0/24                maclist</programlisting>

    <para><filename><filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename></filename></para>

    <programlisting>#INTERFACE              SUBNET          ADDRESS
eth0:!192.168.1.0/24    192.168.1.0/24</programlisting>

    <para>Note that the maclist option is specified in <filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>.
    This is to help protect your router from unauthorized access by your
    friends and neighbors. Start without maclist then add it and configure
    your <ulink url="MAC_Validation.html"><filename>/etc/shorewall/maclist</filename></ulink>
    file when everything else is working.</para>
  </section>
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