shorewall_code/Shorewall/releasenotes.txt

Shorewall 2.5.1

Problems Corrected in 2.5.1:

1) Shorewall is no longer dependent on the 'which' utility.

2) "shorewall add" no longer fails when the 'ipsec' option has appeared
   in /etc/shorewall/hosts.

3) The Makefile has been changed to compare the modification times of
   the files in /etc/shorewall with
   /var/lib/shorewall/restore-base. That file is modified each time
   that Shorewall is [re]started whereas /var/lib/shorewall/restarted
   is also modified by "shorewall reset" and "shorewall refresh".

Problems Corrected in 2.5.0:

1) The behavior of CONTINUE policies has been improved. Shorewall no
   longer generates a useless policy chain corresponding to these
   policies.

2) The combining of the zones and ipsec files has now been made upward
   compatible provided that the user doesn't do something idiotic such
   as install the new shorewall.conf file then manually update it
   with exactly the changes that had been applied to the old file.

Migration Considerations:

1) The "monitor" command has been eliminated.

2) The "DISPLAY" and "COMMENTS" columns in the /etc/shorewall/zones
   file have been removed and have been replaced by the former 
   columns of the /etc/shorewall/ipsec file. The latter file has been
   removed.

   Adhering to the principle of least astonishment, the old
   /etc/shorewall/ipsec file will continue to be supported. A new
   IPSECFILE variable in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf determines the
   name of the file that Shorewall looks in for IPSEC information. If
   that variable is not set or is set to the empty value then
   IPSECFILE=ipsec is assumed. So if you simply upgrade and don't do
   something idiotic like replace your current shorewall.conf file with
   the new one, your old configuration will continue to work. A dummy
   'ipsec' file is included in the release so that your package manager
   (e.g., rpm) won't remove your existing file.

   The shorewall.conf file included in this release sets
   IPSECFILE=zones so that new users are expected to use the new zone
   file format. 

   As a result, the columns in the /etc/shorewall/zones file
   are now as follows:

	ZONE		Short name of the zone (5 Characters or less in
			length).

			The names "all" and "none" are reserved and may
			not beused as zone names.

	IPSEC		Yes --  Communication with all zone hosts is
	ONLY			encrypted. Your kernel and iptables
				must include policy match support.
			No  --  Communication with some zone hosts may
				be encrypted. Encrypted hosts are
				designated using the 'ipsec' option in
				/etc/shorewall/hosts. 				

	OPTIONS,		A comma-separated list of options as
	IN OPTIONS,		follows:
	OUT OPTIONS	
				reqid=<number> where <number> is
				specified using setkey(8) using the
				'unique:<number> option for the SPD
				level.

				spi=<number> where <number> is the SPI
				of the SA used to encrypt/decrypt
				packets.

				proto=ah|esp|ipcomp

				mss=<number> (sets the MSS field in TCP
				packets) 

				mode=transport|tunnel

				tunnel-src=<address>[/<mask>] (only
				available with mode=tunnel)

				tunnel-dst=<address>[/<mask>] (only
				available with mode=tunnel)


				strict  Means that packets must match
					all rules.


				next    Separates rules; can only be
					used with strict..

			Example:
				mode=transport,reqid=44

	The options in the OPTIONS column are applied to both
	incoming and outgoing traffic. The IN OPTIONS are
	applied to incoming traffic (in addition to OPTIONS)
	and the OUT OPTIONS are applied to outgoing traffic.

	If you wish to leave a column empty but need to make an
	entry in a following column, use "-".

   THE ORDER OF THE ENTRIES IN THIS FILE IS IMPORTANT IF YOU HAVE
   NESTED OR OVERLAPPING ZONES DEFINED THROUGH /etc/shorewall/hosts.


3) The DROPINVALID option has been removed from shorewall.conf. The
   behavior will be as if DROPINVALID=No had been specified. If you
   wish to drop invalid state packets, use the dropInvalid built-in
   action.

4) The 'nobogons' interface and hosts option as well as the
   BOGON_LOG_LEVEL option have been eliminated.

5) Most of the standard actions have been replaced by parameterized
   macros (see below). So for example, the action.AllowSMTP and
   action.DropSMTP have been removed an a parameterized macro
   macro.SMTP has been added to replace them. 

   In order that current users don't have to immediately update their
   rules and user-defined actions, Shorewall can substitute an
   invocation of the a new macro for an existing invocation of one of
   the old actions. So if your rules file calls AllowSMTP, Shorewall
   will replace that call with SMTP/ACCEPT. Because this substitution
   is expensive, it is conditional based on the setting of
   MAPOLDACTIONS in shorewall.conf. If this option is set to YES or if
   it is not set (such as if you are using your old shorewall.conf
   file) then Shorewall will perform the substitution. Once you have
   converted to use the new macros, you can set MAPOLDACTIONS=No and
   invocations of those actions will go much quicker during 'shorewall
   [re]start'.

6) The STATEDIR variable in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf has been
   removed. STATEDIR is now fixed at /var/lib/shorewall. If you have
   previously set STATEDIR to another directory, please copy the files
   from that directory to /var/lib/shorewall/ before [re]starting
   Shorewall after the upgrade to this version.

7) The "shorewall status" command now just gives the status of
   Shorewall (started or not-started). The previous status command has
   been renamed "dump". The command also shows the state relative to the
   state diagram at
   http://shorewall.net/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm. In
   addition to the state, the time and date at which that state was
   entered is shown.

   Note that at least one "shorewall [re]start" must be issued after
   upgrading to this release before "shorewall status" will show
   anything but "Unknown" for the state.

New Features in Shorewall 2.5.0

1) Error and warning messages are made easier to spot by using
   capitalization (e.g., ERROR: and WARNING:).

2) Beginning with this version, the POLICY column in
   /etc/shorewall/policy can potentially contain two policies separated
   by ":". The first policy is the policy for new connections (the only
   policy that you can currently configure). The second policy is for
   ESTABLISHED packets (those that are part of an established
   connection) and must be either ACCEPT (the default) or QUEUE. So if
   the policy column contains DROP:QUEUE then new connection requests
   are dropped by default but packets that are part of an established
   connection are sent to the QUEUE target. RELATED state packets are
   always ACCEPTED so that ICMPs (which are almost always RELATED)
   won't go through QUEUE.

3) A new option 'critical' has been added to
   /etc/shorewall/routestopped. This option can be used to enable
   communication with a host or set of hosts during the entire
   "shorewall [re]start/stop" process. Listing a host with this option
   differs from listing it without the option in several ways:

   a) The option only affect traffic between the listed host(s) and the
   firewall itself.

   b) If there are any entries with 'critical', the firewall
   will be completely opened briefly during start, restart and stop but
   there will be no chance of any packets to/from the listed host(s)
   being dropped or rejected.

   Possible uses for this option are:

   a) Root fileset is NFS mounted. You will want to list the NFS server
   in the 'critical' option.

   b) You are running Shorewall in a Crossbeam environment
   (www.crossbeam.com). You will want to list the Crossbeam interface
   in this option

4) A new 'macro' feature has been added.

   Macros are very similar to actions and can be used in similar
   ways. The differences between actions and macros are as follows:

   a) An action creates a separate chain with the same name as the
      action (when logging is specified on the invocation of an action,
      a chain beginning with "%" followed by the name of the action and
      possibly followed by a number is created). When a macro is
      invoked, it is expanded in-line and no new chain is created.

   b) An action may be specified as the default action for a policy;
      macros cannot be specified this way.

   c) Actions must be listed in either /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std
      or in /etc/shorewall/actions. Macros are defined simply by
      placing their definition file in the CONFIG_PATH.

   d) Actions are defined in a file with a name beginning with
      "action." and followed by the name of the action. Macro files are
      defined in a file with a name beginning with "macro.".

   e) Actions may invoke other actions. Macros may not directly invoke
      other macros although they may invoke other macros indirectly
      through an action.

   f) DNAT[-] and REDIRECT[-] rules may not appear in an action. They
      are allowed in a macro with the restriction that the a macro
      containing one of these rules may not be invoked from an action.

   g) The values specified in the various columns when you invoke a
      macro are substituted in the corresponding column in each rule in
      the macro. The first three columns get special treatment:

      TARGET	 If you code PARAM as the target in a macro then
		 when you invoke the macro, you can include the 
		 name of the macro followed by a slash ("/") and
		 an ACTION (either builtin or user-defined. All
		 instances of PARAM in the body of the macro will be
		 replaced with the ACTION.

		 Any logging applied when the action is invoked is
		 applied following the same rules as for actions.

      SOURCE and 
      DEST	 If the rule in the macro file specifies a value and
		 the invocation of the rule also specifies a value then
		 the value in the invocation is appended to the value
		 in the rule using ":" as a separator. 

		 Example:

		 /etc/shorewall/macro.SMTP

		 PARAM		-	loc	tcp	25

		 /etc/shorewall/rules:

		 SMTP/DNAT:info		net	192.168.1.5

		 Would be equivalent to the following in the rules file:

		 DNAT:info	   net	loc:192.168.1.5	tcp	25

      Rest	 Any value in the invocation replaces the value in the
		 rule in the macro.

    One additional restriction applies to the mixing of macros and
    actions. Macros that are invoked from actions cannot themselves
    invoke other actions.

5)  If you have 'make' installed on your firewall, then when you use
    the '-f' option to 'shorewall start' (as happens when you reboot),
    if your /etc/shorewall/ directory contains files that were modified
    after Shorewall was last restarted then Shorewall is started using
    the config files rather than using the saved configuration.

6)  The 'arp_ignore' option has been added to /etc/shorewall/interfaces
    entries. This option sets
    /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/<interface>/arp_ignore. By default, the
    option sets the value to 1. You can also write arp_ignore=<value>
    where value is one of the following:

        1 - reply only if the target IP address is local address
        configured on the incoming interface

	2 - reply only if the target IP address	is local address
	configured on the incoming interface and both with the sender's
	IP address are part from same subnet on this interface

	3 - do not reply for local addresses configured with scope
	host, only resolutions for global and link addresses are
	replied

	4-7 - reserved

 	8 - do not reply for all local addresses

    WARNING -- DO NOT SPECIFY arp_ignore FOR ANY INTERFACE INVOLVED IN
    PROXY ARP.