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April 08, 2007
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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/capabilities
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.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.9
1) While most distributions store the Shorewall Lite compiled program
in /var/lib/shorewall-lite/, Shorewall includes features that allow
that location to be changed on a per-distribution basis. The
default for a particular distribution may be determined by the
command "shorewall[-lite] show config".
teastep@lists:~/shorewall/trunk$ shorewall show config
Default CONFIG_PATH is /etc/shorewall:/usr/share/shorewall
LITEDIR is /var/lib/shorewall-lite
teastep@lists:~/shorewall/trunk$
The LITEDIR setting is the location where the compiled script
should be placed. Unfortunately, the "shorewall [re]load" command
previously used the setting on the administrative system rather
than the one from the firewall system so it was possible for that
command to upload the compiled script to the wrong directory.
To work around this problem, Shorewall now determines the LITEDIR
setting on the firewall system and uses that setting for uploading
the compiled script and its companion .conf file.
2) Previously, IP ranges and ipset names were handled incorrectly in
the last column of the maclist file with the result that run-time
errors occured.
3) The new SIP and H323 Netfilter helper modules were not being
automatically loaded by Shorewall. They have now been added to the
/usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/modules files.
Other Changes in 3.2.9
1) 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'.
2) A macro that handles SixXS has been contributed by Christian
Roessner.
3) It is rather difficult to code a 'params' file that assigns other
than constant values such that it works correctly with Shorewall
Lite. To work around this problem, a new EXPORTPARAMS option
has been added to shorewall.conf. When EXPORTPARAMS=No, the
'params' file is no longer copied to the compiler output.
With EXPORTPARAMS=No, if you need to set environmental variables on
the firewall system for use by your extension scripts, then do so
in the init extension script.
The default is EXPORTPARAMS=Yes to retain the current behavior. So
if you are happy with the current behavior, you need make no change
to your shorewall.conf file.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.8
1) The 'ash' shell produced an error when processing an entry with a
log tag from /etc/shorewall/rules.
2) If the file /etc/shorewall/init did not exist, then the compiler
would incorrectly copy /usr/share/shorewall/init into the
compiled script. /usr/share/shorewall/init is a symbolic link
to the Shorewall init script (usually /etc/init.d/shorewall).
3) Previously, "ipp2p:udp" was incorrectly rejected in the PROTO
column of an action definition.
Other Changes in 3.2.8.
1) New macros for network printing protocols have been added,
courtesy of Tuomo Soini. Tuomo also provided a macro for TFTP.
The print-oriented macros are:
macro.IPP
macro.Jetdirect
macro.Printer
2006-12-14 Shorewall 3.2.7
Problems Corrected in 3.2.7
1) Handling of saved ipsets in /etc/shorewall/ipsets is broken when
used on a system running Shorewall Lite. If there is a file named
'ipsets' on the CONFIG_PATH when the firewall script is compiled,
then the compiled script attempts to restore the ipsets from that
file (which may not exist on the firewall system).
2) The 'try' command failed on systems whose /bin/sh is Busybox ash:
/sbin/shorewall: export: 2158: Illegal option -n
3) Previously, Shorewall has assumed that the root user is named
'root'. Beginning with this release, the root user may have a
different name. This required the addition of an '-r' option for
the 'shorewall load' and 'shorewall reload' commands.
[re]load [ -e ] [ -c ] [ -r <root user> ] [ <dir> ] system
Example: shorewall reload -r foobar firewall
4) On systems with a light-weight shell such as ash or dash for /bin/sh,
the output of "shorewall show macros" was garbled.
Other Changes in 3.2.7
1) Prior to this release, on firewall systems with Shorewall Lite
installed, the local modules file is used to determine which kernel
modules to load. Beginning with this release, if there is a
'modules' file in the export directory when the firewall script is
compiled, then that file will be copied into the compiled script
and used on the firewall system.
2) 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.
3) Failures of the start, restart and restore commands are now logged
using 'logger'. These failures are logged with the 'kern' facility
and 'err' priority. As part of this change, normal state changes
are now logged with the 'kern' facility and 'info' priority.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.6.
1) When using a light-weight shell (e.g., ash) with multiple
providers, the /etc/iproute2/rt_tables database may become corrupted.
2) A startup error occurred when the LENGTH or TOS column was
non-empty in /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
3) A startup error resulted when whitespace as included in LOGFORMAT.
4) Previously, when conntrack match support was not available, the
'norfc1918' option on an interface or host group was incorrectly
filtering IPSEC traffic whose source IP address was reserved by RFC
1918.
5) If a DNAT or REDIRECT rule was used where the effective policy
between the source and final destination zones is ACCEPT, the ACCEPT
part of the rule was not generated. This was intended as an
optimizaiton but it could lead to confusing results if there was a
DROP or REJECT rule following.
This optimization has been removed. You may always use DNAT- and
REDIRECT- to suppress generation of the ACCEPT rule.
6) Shorewall[-lite] previously would return an error exit status to a
"start" command where Shorewall was already running. It not returns
a "success" status.
7) The install.sh scripst have been corrected to work properly when
used to create packages on Slackware and Arch Linux.
5) A change in version 3.2.5 broke Mac Filtration in some
cases. Result was:
Setting up MAC Filtration -- Phase 1...
iptables v1.3.6: policy match: invalid policy `--dir'
Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more information.
ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -A eth1_fwd -s 0.0.0.0/0 -m state
--state NEW -m policy --pol --dir in -j eth1_mac" Failed
6) At VERBOSITY 1 and higher, the 'shorewall add' and 'shorewall
delete' commands generated a fractured message. The message
contents depended in the setting of IPSECFILE as follows:
IPSECFILE=ipsec
ipsec...
IPSECFILE=zones
IPSEC...
The messages have been corrected and are only produced at VERBOSITY
2 and higher as follows:
IPSECFILE=ipsec
Processing /etc/shorewall/ipsec...
IPSECFILE=zones
Processing IPSEC...
7) Previously, when <action>:none appeared in a rule, the name of the
action chain created was preceded by "%" and might have a one- or
two-digit number appended. If both <action> and <action>:none
appeared, then two chains were created. This has been corrected
such that <action> and <action>:none are treated identically.
8) If SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf, the "shorewall[-lite] save"
command produced error messages as follows:
Dynamic Rules Saved
Currently-running Configuration Saved to /var/lib/shorewall/restore
grep: /var/lib/shorewall/restore-base: No such file or directory
grep: /var/lib/shorewall/restore-base: No such file or directory
Current Ipset Contents Saved to
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-ipsets
9) If BRIDGING=No in shorewall.conf, then an attempt to define a zone
using ipsets fails as follows:
ERROR: BRIDGING=Yes is needed for this zone definition: z eth0:+iset
Other Changes in 3.2.6.
1) The "shorewall [re]load" command now supports a "-c" option.
Example:
shorewall reload -c gateway
When -c is given, Shorewall will capture the capabilities of the
remote system to a file named "capabilities" in the export
directory before compiling the configuration.
If the file "capabilities" does not currently exist in the
export directory then "-c" is automatically assumed.
2) If 0 (zero) is specified for the IN-BANDWIDTH in
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices then no ingress qdisc will be created for
the device.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.5
1) Entries such as the following in /etc/shorewall/masq generate a
run-time error:
eth0 eth1!192.168.1.12 206.124.146.176
Omitting the exclusion (!192.168.1.12) avoids the error.
2) Previously, the 'provider' portion of the packet mark was not being
cleared after routing for traffic that originates on the firewall
itself.
3) In prior releases, it was not possible to mark an outgoing packet
with a high mark (HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes) when the packet originated
on the firewall itself.
4) The detected capabilities were not displayed by 'shorewall dump'
when the effective VERBOSITY was less than 2.
Other changes in 3.2.5
1) 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
2) A new macro (macro.RDP) has been added for Microsoft Remote
Desktop. This macro was contributed by Tuomo Soini.
3) 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 script is copyied at compile
time, 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".
4) Beginning with this release, Shorewall and Shorewall lite will
share the same change log and release notes.
Problems corrected in 3.0.9
1) When using a light-weight shell like ash or dash, "shorewall
[re]start" fails when using the built-in traffic shaper. The error
messages resemble these:
local: 3: eth0:: bad variable name
ERROR: Command "tc class add dev eth0 parent 1: classid 1:1 htb rate 800kbit mtu" Failed
2) The output formating of the 'hits' command under BusyBox 1.2.0 has
been corrected.
3) In prior versions, setting 'mss=' in /etc/shorewall/zones did not
affect traffic to/from the firewall zone. That has been corrected.
4) Previously, using IP address ranges in the accounting file could
cause non-fatal iptables errors during shorewall [re]start.
Other changes in 3.0.9
1) It is now possible to use the special value 'detect' in the ADDRESS
column of /etc/shorewall/masq. This allows you to specify SNAT (as
opposed to MASQUERADE) without having to know the ip address of the
external interface. Shorewall must be restarted each time that the
external address (the address of the interface named in the
INTERFACE column) changes.
2) Experimental optimization for PPP devices has been added to the
providers file. If you omit the GATEWAY column for a ppp device (or
enter "-" in the column) then Shorewall will generate routes
for the named INTERFACE that do not specify a gateway IP address
(the peer address will be assumed).
3) Normally, Shorewall tries to protect users from themselves by
preventing PREROUTING and OUTPUT tcrules from being applied to
packets that have been marked by the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers.
If you really know what you are doing and understand packet marking
thoroughly, you can set TC_EXPERT=Yes in shorewall.conf and
Shorewall will not include these cautionary checks.
4) Previously, CLASSIFY tcrules were always processed out of the
POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with this release, they are processed
out of the POSTROUTING chain *except* when the SOURCE is
$FW[:<address>] in which case the rule is processed out of the
OUTPUT chain.
Shorewall Problems corrected in 3.2.4
1) Previously, the directory name in the command "shorewall start
<directory name>" was being dropped by "/sbin/shorewall".
2) Previous, when /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules had been copied to
/etc/shorewall/modules, Shorewall was not looking in the correct
directory for the "xt_..." modules. There are two parts to the fix:
- The /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules file has been removed. The
/usr/share/shorewall/modules file will now load all required
modules regardless of which kernel version you are running.
- The MODULESDIR option can now contain a colon-separated list of
directories to search for modules with the default being:
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter:/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/netfilter
3) Rules in /etc/shorewall/tos which specify zones defined
using entries in /etc/shorewall/hosts applied to all traffic
to/from the zone interfaces (the bridge port, ipset or IP
address(es) in the zone definition were ignored).
4) Previously, 'shorewall-lite dump' did not report traffic shaping
information even if TC_ENABLED was set to Yes or Internal in the
shorewall.conf file used to compile the exported firewall script.
To correct this problem, the firewall script must be recompiled and
re-exported.
5) Previously, errors during the compile phase were not reflected in
the exit status of /sbin/shorewall. Thanks to Tuomo Soini for
finding and correcting this problem.
Other Shorewall changes in 3.2.4
1) Previously, scripts compiled for export (-e option) depended on
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/functions in order to run correctly. This
made it possible for a compiled script to be incompatible with the
version of Shorewall Lite installed on a firewall system.
Beginning with Shorewall 3.2.4, this dependency is removed such
that version incompatibility between Shorewall and Shorewall Lite
should not be a concern going forward.
2) Two new macros have been added, courtesy of Tuomo Soini
macro.Finger
macro.Telnets
3) The output of "shorewall show macros" has been enhanced to show
macros in each directory in the CONFIG_PATH.
Shorewall Lite problems corrected in 3.2.4
1) Previous, when /usr/share/shorewall-lite/xmodules had been copied to
/etc/shorewall-lite/modules, Shorewall was not looking in the correct
directory for the "xt_..." modules. There are two parts to the fix:
- The /usr/share/shorewall-lite/xmodules file has been removed. The
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules file will now load all required
modules regardless of which kernel version you are running.
- The MODULESDIR option can now contain a colon-separated list of
directories to search for modules with the default being:
/lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter:/lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/kernel/net/netfilter
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules contains a *lot* of modules. If
you use module autoloading (which non-embedded Linux distributions
do), then you can improve your "shorewall [re]start" time by
trimming all but the helper modules from the file. To do that,
create the file /etc/shorewall-lite/modules with the following
entries:
loadmodule ip_conntrack_amanda
loadmodule ip_conntrack_ftp
loadmodule ip_conntrack_irc
loadmodule ip_conntrack_netbios_ns
loadmodule ip_conntrack_pptp
loadmodule ip_conntrack_tftp
loadmodule ip_nat_amanda
loadmodule ip_nat_ftp
loadmodule ip_nat_irc
loadmodule ip_nat_pptp
loadmodule ip_nat_snmp_basic
loadmodule ip_nat_tftp
Other Shorewall Lite changes in 3.2.4
None.
Shorewall Problems Corrected in 3.2.3
1) A problem in 'install.sh' resulted in sandbox violations on
Gentoo and, when Shorewall is installed using an RPM, the problem
caused an incorrect copy of shorewall.conf to be installed in
/usr/share/shorewall/configfiles/.
2) A typo in the functions file caused startup errors when the user's
distribution did not support a true mktemp program (such as
Bering Uclibc). Patch courtesy of Cédric Schieli.
3) Several erroneous references to ip_addr_del() were made in
/var/lib/shorewall/compiler and in the code that it generates.
a) These should have been references to del_ip_addr()
b) One of the calls also had an incorrect parameter list.
4) Previously, "shorewall check -e" would erroneously attempt to
detect interfaces configured for traffic shaping.
5) SUBSYSLOCK functionality has been restored.
6) In prior versions, setting 'mss=' in /etc/shorewall/zones did not
affect traffic to/from the firewall zone. That has been corrected.
7) When /sbin/shorewall was run under BusyBox ash, shell errors would
occur if certain command options were given.
8) Previously, the 'optional' provider option did not detect the case
where the interface was DOWN but still had a configured IP
address. Shorewall was detecting such interfaces as UP and later
'ip replace route' commands would fail.
It should also be clarified that the 'optional' option is intended
to detect cases where a provider interface is in a state that would
cause 'shorewall [re]start' to fail; it is not intended to
determine whether communication is possible using the interface.
9) Previously, the "shorewall add" command would fail with error
messages indicating that the commands "chain_exists" and
"verify_hosts_file" could not be found.
10) Using earlier Shorewall versions, the following sequence of
commands produced inconsistant results:
a) shorewall [re] start
b) Modify /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and/or /etc/shorewall/tcclasses
c) shorewall refresh
d) shorewall save
e) shorewall restore (or reboot and shorewall start -f during boot
up)
After that series of commands, the state of traffic shaping was as
it was after step a) rather than as it was after step c). The fix
involved re-implementing 'shorewall refresh' as a compile/execute
procedure similar to [re]start. While the entire configuration is
recompiled, only ecn, blacklisting, tcrules and traffic control
will be updated in the running configuration.
11) DNAT rules generated under DETECT_DNAT_IPADDRS=Yes may have been
incorrect with the result that the rules didn't work at all.
Other Shorewall changes in 3.2.3
1) A 'shorewall export' command has been added.
shorewall export [ <directory1> ] [user@]<system>:[<directory2>]
If <directory1> is omitted, then the current working directory is
assumed.
Causes the shorewall configuration in <directory1> to be compiled
into a program called '<directory1>/firewall'. If compilation is
successful, the '<directory1>/firewall' script is copied via scp
to the specified <system>.
Example:
shorewall export admin@gateway:
This command would compile the configuration in the current working
directory then copy the 'firewall' (and 'firewall.conf') files to
admin's home directory on system 'gateway'.
2) Normally, Shorewall tries to protect users from themselves by
preventing PREROUTING and OUTPUT tcrules from being applied to
packets that have been marked by the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers.
If you really know what you are doing and understand packet marking
thoroughly, you can set TC_EXPERT=Yes in shorewall.conf and
Shorewall will not include these cautionary checks.
3) Previously, CLASSIFY tcrules were always processed out of the
POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with this release, they are processed
out of the POSTROUTING chain *except* when the SOURCE is
$FW[:<address>] in which case the rule is processed out of the
OUTPUT chain.
See the Migration Considerations section for further information.
4) Previously, if you specified 'detectnets' on an interface with a
default route, Shorewall would ignore the default route with a
warning message. This could lead to systems that were inaccessible
from the net, even from systems listed in the 'routestopped' file.
Specifying 'detectnets' on an interface with a default route now
generates a fatal error.
Shorewall Lite problems corrected in 3.2.3
1) A typo in /usr/share/shorewall-lite/functions caused startup errors
on distributions like Bering Uclibc that don't have a true mktemp
utility.
Other Shorewall Lite changes in 3.2.3
None.
Problems corrected in 3.0.8
1) If the 'upnp' interface option was specified on one or more
interfaces but no forwardUPnP rule was included, the following
diagnostic messages were issued:
WARNING:Missing forwardUPnP rule (required by 'upnp' interface option on
eth0)
ERROR: Fatal error in find_logactionchain
Given that the fatal error message is obscure if the first WARNING
isn't noticed, the ERROR message has been eliminated with the
result that Shorewall now starts but won't handle UPnP properly.
2) If BRIDGING=No in shorewall.conf, then an entry in
/etc/shorewall/hosts such as the following would result in an
obscure failure of an iptables command:
loc br0:eth0
Shorewall now detects this case and issues a more helpful error
message:
ERROR: BRIDGING=Yes is required for this zone definition: loc br0:eth0
3) Users of the Multi-ISP feature may experience this error during startup:
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 1393: 20000 + (1 - 1) * 256 +
$rulenum : syntax error: operand expected (error token is
"$rulenum ")
4) A more useful diagnostic is now given when a command fails during
setup of traffic shaping.
5) Shorewall now checks to see if devices in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices
exist. If a device does not exist, a warning message is issued and
that device's entries in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses are ignored. This
applies to "shorewall start", "shorewall restart" and "shorewall
refresh".
6) It is now possible to exclude a single source MAC address using
!<MAC address>. Previously, a startup error occurred.
7) Shorewall would use the incorrect shell for compilation in the
following case:
8) Reporting of the "Mangle FORWARD Chain" capability was broken. While
Shorewall correctly detected and used the capability, the output of
"shorewall show capabilities" and "shorewall dump" showed the
capability as "Not Available".
9) Extension scripts for policy chains (chains with the word 'all' in
their name) were not being run previously.
-Tom
Support for Shorewall 2.4 has ended. As always, we will try to help you
with your problems but I personally will not spend any time reading old
code trying to solve your problem and I will not provide patches for any
bugs found in versions earlier than 3.0.
Problems Corrected in Shorewall 3.2.1:
1) The output formatting of the 'hits' command under BusyBox 1.2.0 has
been corrected.
2) Shorewall no longer requires extended MARK support to use the 'track'
provider option when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No.
3) The output of the 'hits' command was previously scrambled if
/etc/services contained spaces as column delimiters rather than
tabs.
4) The /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules file was previously just a copy
of /usr/share/shorewall/modules.
5) The version number in the comments at the top of shorewall.conf has
been corrected.
6) The script generated when the -e option is given to the 'compile'
command is setting CONFIG_PATH to the value given in the remote
firewall's shorewall.conf processed at compile time. This is
generally incorrect and results in the inability to load any kernel
modules on the firewall during 'shorewall-lite [re]start'.
Problems Corrected in Shorewall Lite 3.2.1:
1) The output formatting of the 'hits' command under BusyBox 1.2.0 has
been corrected.
2) The output of the 'hits' command was previously scrambled if
/etc/services contained spaces as column delimiters rather than
tabs.
3) The /usr/share/shorewall-lite/xmodules file was previously just a
copy of /usr/share/shorewall-lite/modules.
4) The version number in the comments at the top of shorewall.conf has
been corrected.
I regret to announce that Shorewall bridge/firewall support in its
current form (BRIDGING=Yes in shorewall.conf) is going away. I will
retain the code in Shorewall for the foreseeable future but users
migrating to new kernels coming out next year will find that their
current bridge configurations no longer work. Shorewall bridge/firewall
users upgrading to more immediate new kernel releases (possibly as early
as 2.6.18) will find Netfilter warning messages appearing in their
kernel log when Shorewall [re]starts.
The reason that this support is going away is that the underlying
Netfilter feature that BRIDGING=Yes depends on (physdev match) is being
reduced in scope to the point that it will no longer be possible to use
that feature for Shorewall zone definition. There is a significant list
of pending Netfilter bug reports than cannot be resolved so long as
'physdev match' works the way that it does today.
While 'physdev match' was a great idea in terms of the function that it
provides, it appears impossible to implement that function without
breaking other parts of the greater Linux IP stack; in short, 'physdev
match' in its current form should never have been released in the first
place.
So -- what can current Shorewall bridge/firewall users do?
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a) Configure Shorewall as if you have a simple bridge
(http://www.shorewall.net/SimpleBridge.html) and use ebtables to filter
traffic in and out of the individual bridge ports.
b) Configure Shorewall so that you specifically enumerate the IP
addresses of the hosts connected to all but one of the bridge ports.
Example where br0 connects to 192.168.1.0/24:
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
BRIDGING=<doesn't matter>
/etc/shorewall/zones
z1 ipv4
z2 ipv4
/etc/shorewall/interfaces
- br0 detect routeback
/etc/shorewall/hosts:
z1 br0:192.168.1.1-192.168.1.15,192.168.1.18,...
z2 br0:192.168.1.0/24
In other words, explicitly specify the hosts in the first zone listed
in /etc/shorewall/zones (z1 in the above example) then simply specify
the entire network for the second zone. If the second zone contains your
default gateway, then you would enter 0.0.0.0/0 rather than
192.168.1.0/24.
I will expand these instructions into an article on the web site just as
soon as I find the time.
c) If you have ipset support, you can take the same approach as in b)
above but define 'z1' using one or more ipsets rather than with an
explicit lists of network/host IP addresses. That will generally result
in a smaller ruleset.
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I realize that the options available to you are more cumbersome to
configure and maintain than what you have today but at the moment, I see
no alternatives. I will however continue to ponder the problem, and if I
come up with something better I will let you know.
-Tom
New Features:
1) Shorewall has always been very noisy (lots of messages). No longer.
You set the default level of verbosity using the VERBOSITY option in
shorewall.conf. If you don't set it (as would be the case if you use your
old shorewall.conf file) then VERBOSITY defaults to a value of 2 which
results in behavior compatible with previous Shorewall versions.
A value of 1 suppresses some of the output (like the old -q option did)
while a value of 0 makes Shorewall almost silent. A value of -1
suppresses all output except warning and error messages.
The value specified in the 3.2 shorewall.conf is 1. So you can make
Shorewall as verbose as previously using a single -v and you can make it
almost silent by using a single -q.
If VERBOSITY is set at 2, you can still make a command nearly
silent by using two "q"s (e.g., shorewall -qq restart).
In summary, each "q" subtracts one from VERBOSITY while each "v" adds one
to VERBOSITY.
The "shorewall show log", "shorewall logwatch" and "shorewall dump"
commands require VERBOSITY to be greater than or equal to 3 to
display MAC addresses.This is consistent with the previous
implementation which required a single -v to enable MAC display but
means that if you set VERBOSITY=0 in shorewall.conf, then you will
need to include -vvv in commands that display log records in order
to have MACs displayed.
To make the display of MAC addresses less cumbersome, a '-m' option has
been added to the "show" and logwatch commands:
shorewall show -m log
shorewall logwatch -m
2) A new 'shorewall compile' command has been added.
shorewall compile [ -e ] [ <config directory> ] <script file>
where:
-e Allows the generated script to run
on a system with Shorewall Lite installed.
Generates an error if the configuration uses
an option that would prevent the generated
script from running on a system other than
where the 'compile' command is running (see
additional consideration a) below).
<config directory> Is an optional directory to be searched for
configuration files prior to those listed
in CONFIG_DIR in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
<script file> Is the name of the output file.
The 'compile' command processes the configuration and generates a
script file which may then be executed to configure the firewall.
The generated script supports the following commands:
start - starts the firewall
stop - stops the firewall
clear - clears the firewall (removes all iptables rules)
restart - restarts the firewall
status - displays the firewall status
version - displays the version of shorewall used to create the
script
The generated script contains error checking and will terminate if an
important command fails. Before terminating:
a) The script will check for the existence of the restore script
specified by the RESTOREFILE variable in shorewall.conf. If that
restore script exists, it is executed.
b) If the restore script doesn't exist but Shorewall appears to be
installed on the system, the equivalent of an
"/sbin/shorewall stop" command is executed.
Some additional considerations:
a) When you run 'compile' on one system and then run the generated script
on another system under Shorewall Lite, there are certain limitations.
1) A compatible version of Shorewall Lite must be running on the remote
system. Going forward, the goal is that any minor version of
the current major version will be compatible. So if the
program is compiled using Shorewall 3.2.x, any 3.2.y version
or 3.p.q version (where p > 2) of Shorewall Lite will be compatible.
2) The 'detectnets' interface option is not allowed.
3) DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes is not allowed.
4) You must supply the file /etc/shorewall/capabilities to provide
the compiler with knowledge of the capabilities of the system
where the script is to be run. See below.
5) If your /etc/shorewall/params file contains code other than simple
assignment statements with contant values, then you should move
that code to /etc/shorewall/init. That way, the code will be
executed on the target system when the compiled script is run and
not on the local system at compile time.
b) If you run the "shorewall compile" or "shorewall check" commands under
a user other than 'root', then you must supply
/etc/shorewall/capabilities.
c) To aid in building /etc/shorewall/capabilities, a 'shorecap' program
is provided in the Shorewall Lite package and is installed in
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/shorecap when you install Shorewall Lite.
For instructions about running shorecap, see the comments at the
top of the program file (it's a simple shell script).
The "shorewall start" and "shorewall restart" commands have been
rewritten to use compilation. They both compile a temporary program
then run it. This results in a slightly longer elapsed time than the
similar commands required under earlier versions of Shorewall but new
connections are blocked for a much smaller percentage of that time.
If an error is found during the compilation phase, /sbin/shorewall
terminates and the Shorewall state is unchanged.
Under Shorewall 3.1.5, "shorewall restart" takes roughly 16.5 seconds
on my firewall:
real 0m16.599s
user 0m6.292s
sys 0m9.885s
Of the elapsed 16.5 seconds, new connections are disabled less than
3.5 seconds. Here are some numbers for comparison:
A) shorewall restart (Shorewall 3.0.4)
real 0m17.540s
user 0m5.956s
sys 0m10.737s
B) ./foo restart # foo created using "shorewall compile"
real 0m3.297s
user 0m1.444s
sys 0m1.728s
C) shorewall restore (Shorewall 3.0.4) # Restores from file generated by
# "shorewall save"
real 0m1.164s
user 0m0.556s
sys 0m0.608s
D) shorewall restore (shorewall 3.1.5)
real 0m1.637s
user 0m0.728s
sys 0m0.584s
The time difference between B and C reflects the difference between
"iptables-restore" and multiple executions of "iptables". The time
difference between C and D results from the fact that the "restore"
command in Shorewall 3.1 runs the compiled program in a way that
turns all iptables commands into no-ops then invokes
iptables-restore. The system is a 1.4Ghz Celeron with 512MB RAM.
As a final part of this change, the "check" command now compiles the
current configuration and writes the compiled output to /dev/null. So
"check" performs all of the same validation that compile does. Note that
there is still no guarantee that the generated script won't encounter
run-time errors.
2) The /etc/shorewall/maclist file has a new column layout. The first column
is now DISPOSITION. This column determines what to do with matching
packets and can have the value ACCEPT or DROP (if MACLIST_TABLE=filter, it
can also contain REJECT). This change is upward compatible so your existing
maclist file can still be used.
ACCEPT, DROP and REJECT may be optionally followed by a log level to
cause the packet to be logged.
4) In macro files, you can now use the reserved words SOURCE and DEST
in the columns of the same names. When Shorewall expands the
macro, it will substitute the SOURCE from the macro invocation for
SOURCE and the DEST from the invocation for DEST. This allows you
to write macros that act in both directions (from source to destination
and from destination to source).
Example:
macro.FOO:
PARAM SOURCE DEST udp 500
PARAM DEST SOURCE udp 500
/etc/shorewall/rules:
FOO/ACCEPT fw net
Resulting rules:
ACCEPT fw net udp 500
ACCEPT net fw udp 500
This new feature has been used to implement the SMBBI macro.
SMBBI is the same as the SMB macro with the exception that
it passes SMB traffic in both directions whereas SMB only
passes that traffic in one direction.
5) In the /etc/shorewall/rules file and in actions, you may now specify
'tcp:syn' in the PROTO column. 'tcp:syn' is equivalent to 'tcp' but also
requires that the SYN flag is set and the RST, FIN and ACK flags be
off ("--syn" is added to the iptables rule).
As part of this change, Shorewall no longer adds the "--syn" option
to TCP rules that specify QUEUE as their target.
6) /sbin/shorewall now supports a "-t" option that causes all progress
messages to be timestamped.
Example (VERBOSITY=0 in shorewall.conf):
gateway:/etc/shorewall # shorewall -t restart
07:08:51 Compiling...
07:09:05 Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall/.restart
07:09:05 Restarting Shorewall....
07:09:08 done.
gateway:/etc/shorewall #
7) A 'refreshed' extension script has been added -- it is executed after
"shorewall refresh" has finished.
8) Two new dynamic blacklisting commands have been added:
logdrop -- like 'drop' but causes the dropped packets to be logged.
logreject -- like 'reject' but causes the rejected packets to be
logged.
Packets are logged at the BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL if one was specified at the
last "shorewall [re]start"; otherwise, they are logged at the 'info'
log level.
9) A new IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option has been added to shorewall.conf. When
this option is set to "Yes", it causes subzones to be treated differently
with respect to policies.
Subzones are defined by following their name with ":" and a list of parent
zones (in /etc/shorewall/zones). Normally, you want to have a set of
special rules for the subzone and if a connection doesn't match any of
those subzone-specific rules then you want the parent zone rules and
policies to be applied. With IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, that happens
automatically.
If IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=No or if IMPLICIT_CONTINUE is not set, then
subzones are not subject to this special treatment.
With IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, an implicit CONTINUE policy may be overridden
by including an explicit policy (one that does not specify "all" in either
the SOURCE or the DEST columns).
Example:
/etc/shorewall/zones:
prnt ipv4
chld:prnt ipv4
Traffic to/from the 'chld' zone will first pass through the applicable
'chld' rules and if none of those rules match then it will be passed through
the appropriate 'prnt' rules. If the connection request does not match
any of the 'prnt' rules then the relevant 'prnt' policy is applied.
If you want the fw->chld policy to be ACCEPT, simply add this entry to
/etc/shorewall/policy:
$FW chld ACCEPT
Traffic from all other zones to 'chld' will be subject to the implicit
CONTINUE policy.
10) Shorewall now includes support for explicit routing rules when the
/etc/shorewall/providers file is used. A new file,
/etc/shorewall/route_rules can be used to add routing rules based on
packet source and/or destination.
The file has the following columns:
SOURCE(optonal) An ip address (network or host) that
matches the source IP address in a packet.
May also be specified as an interface
name optionally followed by ":" and an
address. If the define 'lo' is specified,
the packet must originate from the firewall
itself.
DEST(optional) An ip address (network or host) that
matches the destination IP address in a packet.
If you choose to omit either SOURCE or DEST,
place "-" in the column. Note that you
may not omit both SOURCE and DEST.
PROVIDER The provider to route the traffic through.
May be expressed either as the provider name
or the provider number. You may also specify
the 'main' routing table here, either by
name or by number (254).
PRIORITY
The rule's priority which determines the order
in which the rules are processed.
1000-1999 Before Shorewall-generated
'MARK' rules
11000- 11999 After 'MARK' rules but before
Shorewall-generated rules for
provider interfaces.
26000-26999 After provider interface rules but
before 'default' rule.
Rules with equal priority are applied in
the order in which they appear in the file.
Example 1: You want all traffic coming in on eth1 to be routed to the ISP1
provider:
#PROVIDER PRIORITY SOURCE DEST
ISP1 1000 eth1
Example 2: You use OpenVPN (routed setup /tunX) in combination with multiple
providers. In this case you have to set up a rule to ensure that
the OpenVPN traffic is routed back through the tunX interface(s)
rather than through any of the providers. 10.8.0.0/24 is the
subnet choosen in your OpenVPN configuration (server 10.8.0.0
255.255.255.0)
#SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY
- 10.8.0.0/24 main 1000
11) Prior to now, it has not been possible to use connection marking in
/etc/shorewall/tcrules if you have a multi-ISP configuration that uses the
'track' option.
Beginning with this release, you may now set HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in
shorewall.conf to effectively divide the packet mark and connection mark
into two 8-byte mark fields.
When you do this:
a) The MARK field in the providers file must have a value that is
less than 65536 and that is a multiple of 256 (using hex
representation, the values are 0x0100-0xFF00 with the low-order
8 bits being zero).
b) You may only set those mark values in the PREROUTING chain.
c) Marks used for traffic shaping must still be in the range of 1-255
and may still not be set in the PREROUTING chain.
d) When you SAVE or RESTORE in tcrules, only the TC mark value is
saved or restored. Shorewall handles saving and restoring the
routing (provider) marks.
12) A TOS column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules. This allows marking
based on the contents of the TOS field in the packet header.
13) Beginning with this release, the way in which packet marking in the
PREROUTING chain interracts with the 'track' option in /etc/shorewall/providers
has changed in two ways:
a) Packets *arriving* on a tracked interface are now passed to the PREROUTING
marking chain so that they may be marked with a mark other than the
'track' mark (the connection still retains the 'track' mark).
b) When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, you can still clear the mark on packets
in the PREROUTING chain (i.e., you can specify a mark value of zero).
14) Shorewall will now attempt to detect the MTU of devices listed in
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices and will use the detected MTU in setting
up traffic shaping.
15) In /etc/shorewall/rules, the values "all-" and "all+-" may now be
used for zone names. "all-" means "All zones except the firewall";
"all+-" means "All zones except the firewall" and intra-zone
traffic is included.
16) Kernel version 2.6.16 introduces 'xtables', a new common packet
filtering and connection tracking facility that supports both IPv4
and IPv6. Because a different set of kernel modules must be loaded
for xtables, Shorewall now includes two 'modules' files:
a) /usr/share/shorewall/modules -- the former
/etc/shorewall/modules
b) /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules -- a new file that support
xtables.
If you wish to use the new file, then simply execute this command:
cp -f /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules /etc/shorewall/modules
17) Shorewall now checks to see if devices in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices
exist. If a device does not exist, a warning message is issued and
that device's entries in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses are ignored. This
applies to "shorewall start", "shorewall restart" and "shorewall
refresh".
18) "load" and "reload" commands have been added. These commands allow
a non-root user with ssh access to a remote system running
Shorewall Lite to compile a firewall script on the local system and
to install that script on the remote system.
Syntax is:
shorewall [re]load [ <directory> ] <system>
If <directory> is omitted, the current working directory is
assumed.
The command is equivalent to:
/sbin/shorewall compile -e <directory> firewall &&\
scp firewall root@<system>:/var/lib/shorewall-lite/ &&\
ssh root@<system> '/sbin/shorewall-lite [re]start' # Note 1
In other words, the configuration in the specified (or defaulted)
directory is compiled to a file called firewall in that
directory. If compilation succeeds, then 'firewall' is copied to the
(usually remote) <system> using scp. If the copy succeeds,
Shorewall Lite on <system> is started or restarted via ssh (
load causes Shorewall Lite to be started and 'reload' causes
Shorewall Lite to be re-started)
Note 1: In Shorewall Lite 3.2.0 RC4, the 'firewall' script has moved
from /usr/share/shorewall-lite/ to /var/lib/shorewall-lite in
packages from shorewall.net. The package maintainers for the
various distributions are free to choose the directory where the
script will be stored under their distribution by altering the
value of LITEDIR in /usr/share/shorewall/configpath. You can run the
"shorewall show config" command to see how your distribution
defines LITEDIR.
Problems corrected in 3.0.8
1) If the 'upnp' interface option was specified on one or more
interfaces but no forwardUPnP rule was included, the following
diagnostic messages were issued:
WARNING:Missing forwardUPnP rule (required by 'upnp' interface option on
eth0)
ERROR: Fatal error in find_logactionchain
Given that the fatal error message is obscure if the first WARNING
isn't noticed, the ERROR message has been eliminated with the
result that Shorewall now starts but won't handle UPnP properly.
2) If BRIDGING=No in shorewall.conf, then an entry in
/etc/shorewall/hosts such as the following would result in an
obscure failure of an iptables command:
loc br0:eth0
Shorewall now detects this case and issues a more helpful error
message:
ERROR: BRIDGING=Yes is required for this zone definition: loc br0:eth0
3) Users of the Multi-ISP feature may experience this error during startup:
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 1393: 20000 + (1 - 1) * 256 +
$rulenum : syntax error: operand expected (error token is
"$rulenum ")
4) A more useful diagnostic is now given when a command fails during
setup of traffic shaping.
5) Shorewall now checks to see if devices in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices
exist. If a device does not exist, a warning message is issued and
that device's entries in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses are ignored. This
applies to "shorewall start", "shorewall restart" and "shorewall
refresh".
6) It is now possible to exclude a single source MAC address using
!<MAC address>. Previously, a startup error occurred.
7) Shorewall would use the incorrect shell for compilation in the
following case:
8) Reporting of the "Mangle FORWARD Chain" capability was broken. While
Shorewall correctly detected and used the capability, the output of
"shorewall show capabilities" and "shorewall dump" showed the
capability as "Not Available".
9) Extension scripts for policy chains (chains with the word 'all' in
their name) were not being run previously.
Problems corrected in 2.4.9
1) Updated the bogons file to reflect recent IANA allocations.
2) If you use SAME or SAME:nodst in the ADDRESS column of /etc/shorewall/masq and
if you set ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf, then "shorewall start" will
fail with the error 'Error: an inet prefix is expected rather than "SAME".'.
3) It is now possible to exclude a single source MAC address using
!<MAC address>. Previously, a startup error occurred.
Problems corrected in 3.0.7
1) Previously, if your kernel did not supply the mangle table FORWARD chain
then "shorewall [re]start" would fail. Now, if your mangle table does
not supply this chain Shorewall will avoid using either that chain or
the mangle table POSTROUTING chain. This change is strictly to stop Shorewall
from blowing up during [re]start on very old kernels (such as 2.4.17
running on a PS2); if your kernel does not support these chains and you
try to mark packets in either of them using entries in
/etc/shorewall/tcrules, [re]start will fail.
2) Previously, if there were more than 10 IP addresses on a multi-ISP interface,
some of the routing rules generated by Shorewall were placed after the
default rule which resulted in them not being recognized.
3) When install.sh is used to install on a Debian or Ubuntu system, the
SUBSYSLOCK option in shorewall.conf was not being cleared.
It will now be cleared, provided that Perl is installed on the system.
4) When exclusion lists appeared in the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file, the
resulting 'exclusion chains' (whose names begin with 'excl_') were not
deleted as part of 'shorewall [re]start'. This meant that 'refresh'
would fail, either the first or second time that it was done since
the last 'shorewall [re]start'.
Other changes in 3.0.7
None.
Effectively today, Shorewall source code repository was migrated to Subversion SCM.
Please read https://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=22587 and http://www.shorewall.net/download.htm#SVN for more information.
Problems corrected in 3.0.6
1) A typo in the output of "help drop" has been corrected.
2) Previously, 'shorewall start' would fail in the presence of a network
interface named 'inet'.
3) A shell syntax error was reported when duplicate policies appeared in
/etc/shorewall/policy.
4) The iptable_nat and iptable_mangle modules were previously omitted
from /etc/shorewall/modules.
5) If you use SAME or SAME:nodst in the ADDRESS column of /etc/shorewall/masq
and if you set ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf, then "shorewall
start" will fail with the error 'Error: an inet prefix is expected rather
than "SAME".'.
6) Previously, the 'routeback' option was ignored in an entry in the
/etc/shorewall/hosts file that referred to a (set of) bridge port(s).
Example:
dmz xenbr0:vif+ routeback
Other changes in 3.0.6
1) A 'refreshed' extension script has been added -- it is executed after
"shorewall refresh" has finished.
Problems corrected in Shorewall 3.0.5
1) Previously, if /etc/shorewall/ipsets existed, it was run when Shorewall starts
but not when Shorewall was restored.
2) When using the NETKEY IPSEC implementation in kernel 2.6 but without the
policy match patch and the Netfilter/IPSEC patches, previously an
entry in /etc/shorewall/tunnels was not sufficient in cases where:
a) gw<->gw traffic was encrypted
b) The gw<->gw policy through the tunnel was not ACCEPT
Thanks to Tuomo Soini, this has been corrected. By simply including the
remote VPN zone in the GATEWAY ZONE column for the tunnel's entry, no
additional rules are required.
3) Extra blank output lines are no longer produced by install.sh (patch
courtesy of Tuomo Soini).
4) TCP packets sent to QUEUE by rules in the ESTABLISHED section of the
rules file previously didn't work (they had the "--syn" parameter
added to them which resulted in a rule that no traffic would match).
WARNING: If you use the QUEUE target from an action, Shorewall will
still insert --syn if the protocol is tcp. So you don't want to
invoke such an action from the ESTABLISHED section of the rules
file.
5) The description of the SOURCE column in /etc/shorewall/rules has been
improved (patch courtesy of Ed Suominen).
6) The 'allow', 'drop' and 'reject' commands no longer produce iptables
errors when executed while Shorewall is not started.
7) The spelling of "maximize-throughput" has been corrected in the code
that implements tcclasses parsing. Patch courtesy of Paul Traina.
8) Shorewall now generates the correct match for devices in
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices that are actually bridge ports.
New Features in Shorewall 3.0.5
1) The facilities available for dealing with the TOS field in
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses has been expended. The OPTIONS field is now may
contain a comma-separates list of the following:
tos=0x<value>[/0x<mask>] (mask defaults to 0xff)
- this lets you define a classifier
for the given <value>/<mask> combination
of the IP packet's TOS/Precedence/DiffSrv
octet (aka the TOS byte). Please note,
classifiers override all mark settings,
so if you define a classifer for a class,
all traffic having that mark will go in it
regardless of any mark set on the packet
by a firewall/mangle filter.
NOTE: multiple tos= statements may be
applied per class and per interface, but
a given value/mask pair is valid for only
ONE class per interface.
tos-<tosname> - aliases for the following TOS octet
value and mask encodings. TOS encodings
of the "TOS byte" have been deprecated in
favor of diffserve classes, but programs
like ssh, rlogin, and ftp still use them.
tos-minimize-delay 0x10/0x10
tos-maximize-throughput 0x08/0x08
tos-maximize-reliability 0x04/0x04
tos-minimize-cost 0x02/0x02
tos-normal-service 0x00/0x1e
tcp-ack - defined causes an tc filter to
be created that puts all tcp ack
packets on that interface that have
an size of <=64 Bytes to go in this
class. This is useful for speeding up
downloads. Please note that the size
of the ack packets is limited to 64
bytes as some applications (p2p for
example) use to make every packet an
ack packet which would cause them
all into here. We want only packets
WITHOUT payload to match, so the size
limit.
NOTE: This option is only valid for
ONE class per interface.
Note that the semantics of 'tos-<tosname>' have changed slightly. Previously,
these were tested using a mask of 0xff (example: tos-minimize-delay was
equivalent to 0x10/0xff). Now each bit is tested individually.
This enhancement is courtesy of Paul Traina.
Problems Corrected in 3.0.4
1) The shorewall.conf file is once again "console friendly". Patch is
courtesy of Tuomo Soini.
2) A potential security hole has been closed. Previously, Shorewall ACCEPTed
all traffic from a bridge port that was sent back out on the same port. If
the port was described in /etc/shorewall/hosts using the wildcard "+" (eg,
xenbr0:vif+), this could lead to traffic being passed in variance with the
supplied policies and rules.
3) Previously, an intra-zone policy of NONE would cause a startup error. That
problem has been corrected.
4) When RETAIN_ALIASES=Yes, the script produced by "shorewall save" did not
add the retained aliases. This means that the following sequence of
events resulted in missing aliases:
shorewall start
shorewall restart
shorewall save
reboot
shorewall -f start (which is the default during boot up)
5) When a 2.x standard action is invoked with a log level (example
"AllowPing:info"), logging does not occur.
New Features in 3.0.4
1) By popular demand, the 'Limit' action described at
http://www1.shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html#Limit has been made a standard
action. Limit requires 'recent match' support in your kernel and iptables.
2) DISABLE_IPV6 no longer disabled local (loopback) IPV6 traffic. This
change is reported to improve Java startup time on some distributions.
3) Shorewall now contains support for wildcard ports. In
/etc/shorewall/hosts, you may specify the port name with trailing "+" then
use specific port names in rules.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/hosts
vpn br0:tap+
/etc/shorewall/rules
DROP vpn:tap0 vpn:tap1 udp 9999
4) For the benefit of those who run Shorewall on distributions that don't
autoload kernel modules, /etc/shorewall/modules now contains load commands
for a wide range of Netfilter modules.
Problems Corrected in 3.0.3
1) The comments in the /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and
/etc/shorewall/hosts files have been changed to clarify when
BRIDGING=Yes is required when dealing with bridges.
2) Thanks to Tuomo Soini, formatting of the comments in the tcdevices
and tcclasses files has been cleaned up.
3) Specifying 'trace' on the 'safe-start' and 'safe-restart' command no
longer fails.
4) The output of "shorewall help restore" has been corrected. It previously
printed incorrect syntax for that command.
5) The README.txt file in the tarball was stale and contained incorrect
information. It has been corrected.
6) The shorewall.conf default setting of CLEAR_TC was previously "No". Given
that the default setting of TC_ENABLED is "Internal", the setting of
CLEAR_TC has been changed to the more appropriate value of "Yes".
7) Specifying an interface name in the SOURCE column of /etc/shorewall/tcrules
resulted in a startup error.
8) When the 'install.sh' script is used on Debian, it now creates
/var/log/shorewall-init.log. And if perl is installed on the system then
STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes is specified in shorewall.conf (the user must still
set startup=1 in /etc/default/shorewall).
New Features in 3.0.3
1) A "shorewall show macros" command has been added. This command displays a list of the standard macros along with a brief description of each. 2) The '-q' option is now supported with 'safe-start' and 'safe-restart'. 3) The value "-" is now allowed in the ADDRESS/SUBNET column of /etc/shorewall/blacklist. That value is equivalent to specifying 0.0.0.0/0 in that column. 4) The output of "shorewall show tc" and "shorewall show classifiers" is now included in the output from "shorewall dump". This will aid us in analyzing traffic shaping problems. 5) You can now specify 'none' in the COPY column of /etc/shorewall/providers to signal that you want Shorewall to only copy routes through the interface listed in the INTERFACE column. Note: This works on older versions of Shorewall as well. It is now documented. 6) An 'ipdecimal' command has been added to /sbin/shorewall. This command converts between dot-quad and decimal. Example: gateway:/etc/openvpn# shorewall ipdecimal 192.168.1.4 3232235780 gateway:/etc/openvpn# shorewall ipdecimal 3232235780 192.168.1.4 gateway:/etc/openvpn# 7) /etc/init.d/shorewall now supports a 'reload' command which is synonymous with the 'restart' command.
Problems Corrected in 3.0.2
1) A couple of typos in the one-interface sample configuration have
been corrected.
2) The 3.0.1 version of Shorewall was incompatible with old versions of
the Linux kernel (2.4.7 for example). The new code ignores errors
produced when Shorewall 3.x is run on these ancient kernels.
3) Arch Linux installation routines has been improved.
New Features in 3.0.2
1) A new Webmin macro has been added. This macro assumes that Webmin is
running on its default port (10000).
Problems Corrected in 3.0.1
1) If the previous firewall configuration included a policy other than ACCEPT in the nat, mangle or raw tables then Shorewall would not set the policy to ACCEPT. This could result in a ruleset that rejected or dropped all traffic. 2) The Makefile was broken such that 'make' didn't always work correctly. 3) If the SOURCE or DEST column in a macro body was non-empty and a dash ("-") appeared in the corresponding column of an invocation of that macro, then an invalid rule was generated. 4) The comments in the /etc/shorewall/blacklist file have been updated to clarify that the PORTS column refers to destination port number/service names. 5) When CLAMPMSS is set to a value other than "No" and FASTACCEPT=Yes, the order of the rules generated was incorrect causing RELATED TCP connections to not have CLAMPMSS applied. New Features in 3.0.1 1) To make the macro facility more flexible, Shorewall now examines the contents of the SOURCE and DEST columns in both the macro body and in the invocation and tries to create the intended rule. If the value in the invocation appears to be an address (IP or MAC) or the name of an ipset, then it is placed after the value in the macro body. Otherwise, it is placed before the value in the macro body. Example 1: /etc/shorewall/macro.foo: PARAM - 192.168.1.5 tcp http /etc/shorewallrules: foo/ACCEPT net loc Effective rule: ACCEPT net loc:192.168.1.5 tcp http Example 2: /etc/shorewall/macro.bar: PARAM net loc tcp http /etc/shorewall/rules: bar/ACCEPT - 192.168.1.5 Effective rule: ACCEPT net loc:192.168.1.5 tcp http
New Features in Shorewall 3.0.0
1) Error and warning messages are made easier to spot by using
capitalization (e.g., ERROR: and WARNING:).
2) 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 file system 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
3) 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:
ACTION If you code PARAM as the action 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 built-in or user-defined. All
instances of PARAM in the body of the macro will be
replaced with the ACTION.
Any logging applied when the macro 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.
4) 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.
5) 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.
6) In /etc/shorewall/rules, "all+" in the SOURCE or DEST column works
like "all" but also includes intrazone traffic. So the rule:
ACCEPT loc all+ tcp 22
would allow SSH traffic from loc->loc whereas
ACCEPT loc all tcp 22
does not.
7) A new FASTACCEPT option has been added to shorewall.conf.
Normally, Shorewall defers accepting ESTABLISHED/RELATED packets
until these packets reach the chain in which the original connection
was accepted. So for packets going from the 'loc' zone to the 'net'
zone, ESTABLISHED/RELATED packets are ACCEPTED in the 'loc2net'
chain.
If you set FASTACCEPT=Yes, then ESTABLISHED/RELEATED packets are
accepted early in the INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chains. If you set
FASTACCEPT=Yes then you may not include rules in the ESTABLISHED or
RELATED sections of /etc/shorewall/rules.
8) Shorewall now generates an error if the 'norfc1918' option is
specified for an interface with an RFC 1918 address.
9) You may now specify "!" followed by a list of addresses in the
SOURCE and DEST columns of entries in /etc/shorewall/rules,
/etc/shorewall/tcrules and in action files and Shorewall will
generate the rule that you expect.
Example 1 (/etc/shorewall/rules):
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
ACCEPT loc:!192.168.1.0/24,10.0.0.0/8 net tcp 80
That rule would allow loc->net HTTP access except for the local
networks 192.168.1.0/24 and 10.0.0.0/8.
Example 2 (/etc/shorewall/rules):
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
ACCEPT loc:10.0.0.0/24!10.0.0.4,10.0.0.22 \
net tcp 80
That rule would allow loc->net HTTP access from the local
network 10.0.0.0/24 except for hosts 10.0.0.4 and 10.0.0.22.
10) Tunnel types "openvpnserver" and "openvpnclient" have been added
to reflect the introduction of client and server OpenVPN
configurations in OpenVPN 2.0.
11) The COMMAND variable is now set to 'restore' in restore
scripts. The value of this variable is sometimes of interest to
programmers providing custom /etc/shorewall/tcstart scripts.
12) Previously, if you defined any intra-zone rule(s) then any traffic
not matching the rule(s) was subject to normal policies (which
usually turned out to involve the all->all REJECT policy). Now, the
intra-zone ACCEPT policy will still be in effect in the presence of
intra-zone rules. That policy can still be overridden by an
explicit policy in your /etc/shorewall/policy file.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/rules:
DNAT loc:!192.168.1.4 loc:192.168.1.4:3128 tcp 80
Any other loc->loc traffic will still be accepted. If you want to
also log that other loc->loc traffic at the info log level then
insert this into /etc/shorewall/policy:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG LEVEL
loc loc ACCEPT info
13) Prior to Shorewall 2.5.3, the rules file only controlled packets in
the Netfilter states NEW and INVALID. Beginning with this release,
the rules file can also deal with packets in the ESTABLISHED and
RELATED states.
The /etc/shorewall/rules file may now be divided into
"sections". Each section is introduced by a line that begins with
the keyword SECTION followed by the section name. Sections
are as listed below and must appear in the order shown.
ESTABLISHED
Rules in this section apply to packets in the ESTABLISHED
state.
RELATED
Rules in this section apply to packets in the RELATED state.
NEW
Rules in this section apply to packets in the NEW and INVALID
states.
Rules in the ESTABLISHED and RELATED sections are limited to the
following ACTIONs:
ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, QUEUE, LOG and User-defined actions.
Macros may be used in these sections provided that they expand to
only these ACTIONs.
At the end of the ESTABLISHED and RELATED sections, there is an
implicit "ALLOW all all all" rule.
RESTRICTION: If you specify FASTACCEPT=Yes in
/etc/shorewall.shorewall.conf then the ESTABLISHED and RELATED
sections must be empty.
14) The value 'ipp2p' is once again allowed in the PROTO column of
the rules file. It is recommended that rules specifying 'ipp2p'
only be included in the ESTABLISHED section of the file.
15) Shorewall actions lack a generalized way to pass parameters to an
extension script associated with an action. To work around this
lack, some users have used the log tag as a parameter. This works
but requires that a log level other than 'none' be specified when
the action is invoked. Beginning with this release, you can invoke
an action with 'none'.
Example:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST
A:none:these,are,parameters $FW net
When /etc/shorewall/A is invoked, the LEVEL variable will be empty
but the TAG variable will contain "these,are,parameters" which
can be easily parsed to isolate "these", "are" and "parameters":
ifs=$IFS
IFS=,
set -- $TAG
IFS=$ifs2
Now, $1 = these, $2 = are and $3 = parameters
16) The "shorewall check" command now checks the /etc/shorewall/masq,
/etc/shorewall/blacklist, /etc/shorewall/proxyarp,
/etc/shorewall/nat and /etc/shorewall/providers files.
17) Arne Bernin's "tc4shorewall" package has been integrated into
Shorewall.
See: http://www.shorewall.net/3.0/traffic_shaping.htm for details.
Thanks, Arne!
18) When /usr/share/shorewall/functions is loaded it now sets
2
SHOREWALL_LIBRARY=Loaded
Application code such as /etc/shorewall/tcstart may test that
variable to determine if the library has been loaded into the
current shell process.
19) The install.sh script now does a much cleaner job of backing up the
current installation. It copies the directories /etc/shorewall,
/usr/share/shorewall and /var/lib/shorewall to a directory of the
same name with "-$VERSION.bkout" appended. The init script and
/sbin/shorewall are backed up to the /usr/share/shorewall and
/var/lib/shorewall directories respectively. This makes it very
simple to remove the backups:
rm -rf /etc/shorewall-*.bkout
rm -rf /usr/share/shorewall-*.bkout
rm -rf /var/lib/shorewall-*.bkout
20) A new '-n' option has been added to the "start", "restart",
"restore", "stop" and "try" commands. This option instructs
Shorewall to not alter the routing in any way.
This option is useful when you have a multi-ISP environment because
it prevents the route cache from being flushed which preserves the
mapping of end-point address pairs to routes.
21) The output of "shorewall dump" now includes a capabilities report
such as the one produced by "shorewall show capabilities".
22) The "plain" zone type has been replaced by "ipv4". The types
"IPv4" and "IPV4" are synonyms for "ipv4". In addition, "IPSEC",
"ipsec4" and "IPSEC4" are recognized synonyms for "ipsec".
23) The NEWNOTSYN and LOGNEWNOTSYN options in shorewall.conf have been
removed as have the 'newnotsyn' options in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
and /etc/shorewall/hosts. See the Migration Considerations for
instructions if you wish to block "new-not-syn" TCP packets.
24) The "shorewall show zones" command now displays the zone type. You
must have restarted Shorewall using this release before this feature
will work correctly.
25) The multi-ISP code now requires that that you set MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes
in shorewall.conf. This is done to ensure that "shorewall refresh" will
work correctly.
26) Shorewall now supports UDP IPP2P matching. In addition to the "ipp2p"
keyword in the PROTOCOL column of the relevant files, the following
values may be specified:
ipp2p:tcp Equivalent to ipp2p and matches TCP traffic
only.
ipp2p:udp Matches UDP traffic.
ipp2p:all Matches both UDP and TCP traffic. You may
not specify a SOURCE PORT with this PROTOCOL.
27) Normally MAC verification triggered by the 'maclist' interface and host
options is done out of the INPUT and FORWARD chains of the filter table.
Users have reported that under some circumstances, MAC verification is
failing for forwarded packets when the packets are being forwarded out
of a bridge.
To work around this problem, a MACLIST_TABLE option has been added to
shorewall.conf. The default value is MACLIST_TABLE=filter which results
in the current behavior. If MACLIST_TABLE=mangle then filtering will
take place out of the PREROUTING chain of the mangle table. Because
the REJECT target may not be used in the PREROUTING chain, the settings
MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT and MACLIST_TABLE=mangle are incompatible.
28) The sample configurations are now packaged with the product. They are
in the Samples directory on the tarball and are in the RPM they are
in the Samples sub-directory of the Shorewall documentation
directory.