Shorewall 4.1 Patch Release 6. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- R E L E A S E 4 . 1 H I G H L I G H T S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Support is included for multiple internet providers through the same ethernet interface. 2) Support for NFLOG has been added. 3) Enhanced operational logging. 4) The tarball installers now work under Cygwin. Migration Issues. 1) Previously, when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, Shorewall allowed non-zero mark values < 256 to be assigned in the OUTPUT chain. This has been changed so that only high mark values may be assigned there. Packet marking rules for traffic shaping of packets originating on the firewall must be coded in the POSTROUTING table. 2) Previously, Shorewall did not range-check the value of the VERBOSITY option in shorewall.conf. Beginning with Shorewall 4.1: a) A VERBOSITY setting outside the range -1 through 2 is rejected. b) After the -v and -q options are applied, the resulting value is adjusted to fall within the range -1 through 2. 3) Specifying a destination zone in a NAT-only rule now generates a warning and the destination zone is ignored. NAT-only rules are: NONAT REDIRECT- DNAT- 4) The default value for LOG_MARTIANS has been changed. Previously, the defaults were: Shorewall-perl - 'Off' Shorewall-shell - 'No' The new default values are: Shorewall-perl - 'On' Shorewall-shell - 'Yes'. Shorewall-perl users may: a) Accept the new default -- martians will be logged from all interfaces with route filtering except those with log_martians=0 in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. b) Explicitly set LOG_MARTIANS=Off to maintain compatibility with prior versions of Shorewall. Shorewall-shell users may: a) Accept the new default -- martians will be logged from all interfaces with the route filtering enabled. b) Explicitly set LOG_MARTIONS=No to maintain compatibility with prior versions of Shorewall. 5) The value of IMPLICIT_CONTINUE in shorewall.conf (and samples) has been changed from Yes to No. Problems corrected in Shorewall-perl 4.1.6. 1) A problem introduced in 4.1.5 would result in the following error message. ERROR: Internal error in create_netfilter_load() 2) Under Shorewall-perl, if an empty action was invoked or was named in one of the DEFAULT_xxx options in shorewall.conf, an iptables-restore error occured. 3) If $ADMIN was empty, then the rule: ACCEPT loc:$ADMIN all became ACCEPT loc net It is now flagged as an error. Problems corrected in Shorewall-shell 4.1.6. 1) Specifying a value for ACCEPT_DEFAULT or QUEUE_DEFAULT resulted in a fatal error at compile time. New Features in 4.1.6. 1) The default value for the IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option has been changed to 'No'. 2) A REDIRECTED INTERFACES option has been added to the tcdevices file to support using an IFB (Intermediate Functional Block) device. IFBs can be used to shape incoming traffic by redirecting that traffic through the IFB. To use this feature: a) Specify the name of your IFB in the INTERFACE column. b) List the redirected device names (comma-separated) in the REDIRECTED INTERFACES column. Packets that are input from the redirected interface(s) will appear as output packets on the IFB. This support should be considered EXPERIMENTAL. 3) Shorewall-perl now supports an 'l2tp' tunnel type. It opens UDP port 1701 in both directions and assumes that the source port will also be 1701. Some implementations (particularly OS X) use a different source port. In that case, you should use 'generic:udp:1701' rather than 'l2tp'. New Features in Shorewall 4.1. 1) Shorewall 4.1 contains support for multiple Internet providers through a single ethernet interface. Configuring two providers through a single interface differs from two providers through two interfaces in several ways. a) Only ethernet (or ethernet-like) interfaces can be used. For inbound traffic, the MAC addresses of the gateway routers is used to determine which provider a packet was received through. Note that only routed traffic can be categorized using this technique. b) You must specify the address on the interface that corresponds to a particular provider in the INTERFACE column by following the interface name with a colon (":") and the address. c) Entries in /etc/shorewall/masq must be qualified by the provider name (or number). d) This feature requires Realm Match support in your kernel and iptables. If you use a capabilities file, you need to regenerate the file with Shorewall 4.1 or Shorewall-lite 4.1. e) You must add route_rules entries for networks that are accessed through a particular provider. f) If you have additional IP addresses through either provider, you must add route_rules to direct traffic FROM each of those addresses through the appropriate provider. g) You must add MARK rules for any traffic that you know originates from a particular provider. Example: Providers Blarg (1) and Avvanta (2) are both connected to eth0. The firewall's IP address with Blarg is 206.124.146.176/24 (gateway 206.124.146.254) and the IP address from Avvanta is 130.252.144.8/24 (gateway 130.252.144.254). We have a second IP address (206.124.146.177) from Blarg. /etc/shorewall/providers: #PROVIDER NUMBER MARK DUPLICATE INTERFACE GATEWAY Blarg 1 1 main eth0:206.124.146.176 206.124.146.254 ... Avvanta 2 2 main eth0:130.252.144.8 130.252.144.254 ... /etc/shorewall/masq: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS eth0(Blarg) 130.252.144.8 206.124.146.176 eth0(Avvanta) 206.124.146.176 130.252.144.8 eth0(Blarg) eth1 206.124.146.176 eth0(Avvanta) eth1 130.252.144.8 /etc/shorewall/route_rules: #SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY - 206.124.146.0/24 Blarg 1000 - 130.252.144.0/24 Avvanta 1000 206.124.146.177 - Blarg 26000 /etc/shorewall/tcrules #MARK/CLASSIFY SOURCE DEST 1 eth0:206.124.146.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 2 eth0:130.242.144.0/24 0.0.0.0/0 2) You may now include the name of a table (nat, mangle or filter) in a 'shorewall refresh' command by following the table name with a colon (e.g., mangle:). This causes all non-builtin chains in the table to be reloaded. Example: shorewall refresh nat: 3) When no chain name is given to the 'shorewall refresh' command, the mangle table is refreshed along with the blacklist chain (if any). This allows you to modify /etc/shorewall/tcrules and install the changes using 'shorewall refresh'. 4) Support for the NFLOG log target has been added. NFLOG is a successor to ULOG. In addition, both ULOG and NFLOG may be followed by a list of up to three numbers in parentheses. The first number specifies the netlink group (1-32). If omitted (e.g., NFLOG(,0,10)) then a value of 1 is assumed. The second number specifies the maximum number of bytes to copy. If omitted, 0 (no limit) is assumed. The third number specifies the number of log messages that should be buffered in the kernel before they are sent to user space. The default is 1. Examples: /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf: MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=NFLOG(1,0,1) /etc/shorewall/rules: ACCEPT:NFLOG(1,0,1) vpn fw tcp ssh,time,631,8080 5) Shorewall-perl 4.1 implements an alternative syntax for macro parameters and for the NFQUEUE queue number. Rather than following the macro name (or NFQUEUE) with a slash ("/") and the parameter, the parameter may be enclosed in parentheses. Examples -- each pair shown below are equivalent: DNS/ACCEPT DNS(ACCEPT) NFQUEUE/3 NFQUEUE(3) The old syntax will still be accepted but will cease to be documented in some future Shorewall release. 6) Shorewall 4.1 contains enhanced operational logging capabilities through a set of related enhancements to Shorewall-common and Shorewall-perl. The enhancements are not supported by Shorewall-shell nor are they supported by Shorewall-lite except when the script is compiled using Shorewall-perl. a) The STARTUP_LOG option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf gives the name of the Shorewall operational log. The log will be created if it does not exist. b) The LOG_VERBOSITY option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf gives the verbosity at which logging will occur. It uses the same value range as VERBOSITY: -1 Do not log 0 Almost quiet 1 Only major steps 2 Verbose c) An absolute VERBOSITY may be specified on the command line using the -v option followed by -1,0,1 or 2. Example: shorewall -v2 check d) The /etc/init.d/shorewall script supplied with the shorewall.net packages sets '-v0' as the default. This may be overridden with the OPTIONS setting in /etc/defaults/shorewall or /etc/sysconfig/shorewall. Logging occurs on both Shorewall-perl and the generated script when the following commands are issued: start restart refresh Messages in the log are always timestamped. This change implemented two new options to the Shorewall-perl compiler (/usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl). --log= --log_verbosity={-1|0-2} The --log option is ignored when --log_verbosity is not supplied or is supplied with value -1. To avoid a proliferation of parameters to Shorewall::Compiler::compile(), that function has been changed to use named parameters. Parameter names are: object Object file. If omitted or '', the configuration is syntax checked. directory Directory. If omitted or '', configuration files are located using CONFIG_PATH. Otherwise, the directory named by this parameter is searched first. verbosity Verbosity; range -1 to 2 timestamp 0|1 -- timestamp messages. debug 0|1 -- include stack trace in warning/error messages. export 0|1 -- compile for export. chains List of chains to be reloaded by 'refresh'. log File to log compiler messages to. log_verbosity Log Verbosity; range -1 to 2. Those parameters that are supplied must have defined values. Defaults are: object '' ('check' command) directory '' verbosity 1 timestamp 0 debug 0 export 0 chains '' log '' log_verbosity -1 Example: use lib '/usr/share/shorewall-perl/'; use Shorewall::Compiler; compiler( object => '/root/firewall', log => '/root/compile.log', log_verbosity => 2 ); 7) Previously, when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, Shorewall allowed non-zero mark values < 256 to be assigned in the OUTPUT chain. This has been changed so that only high mark values may be assigned there. Packet marking rules for traffic shaping of packets originating on the firewall must be coded in the POSTROUTING chain. 8) Previously, Shorewall did not range-check the value of the VERBOSITY option in shorewall.conf. Beginning with Shorewall 4.1: a) A VERBOSITY setting outside the range -1 through 2 is rejected. b) After the -v and -q options are applied, the resulting value is adjusted to fall within the range -1 through 2. 9) The tcdevices file has been extended to include an OPTIONS column. Currently only a single option is defined. classify When specified, you must use explicit CLASSIFY tcrules to classify traffic by class. Shorewall will not create any CLASSIFY rules to classify traffic by mark value. The 'classify' option should be specified when you want to do all classification using CLASSIFY tcrules. Because CLASSIFY is not a terminating target, every packet passes through all CLASSIFY rules. 'classify' can prevent packets from having to pass through useless additional rules. Example: /etc/shorewall/tcdevices #INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH OPTIONS $EXT_IF 1300kbit 384kbit classify /etc/shorewall/tcclasses #INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS $EXT_IF 10 5*full/10 full 1 tcp-ack,tos-minimize-delay $EXT_IF 20 2*full/10 6*full/10 2 default $EXT_IF 30 2*full/10 6*full/10 3 /etc/shorewall/tcrules #MARK SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT(S) SOURCE # PORT(S) 1:110 192.168.0.0/22 $EXT_IF 1:130 206.124.146.177 $EXT_IF tcp - 873 This example shows my own simple traffic shaping configuration. I have three classes; one for traffic from our local network, one for rsync from the master shorewall.net server, and one for all other DMZ traffic. I use CLASSIFY rules to assign traffic to the first and third class and let the rest default to the second class. 10) COMMENT lines are now supported in macro bodies by Shorewall-perl and are ignored by the Shorewall-shell compiler. COMMENT lines in macros work slightly differently from COMMENT lines in other files. COMMENT lines in macros are ignored if COMMENT support is not available or if there was a COMMENT in use when the top-level macro was invoked. This allows the following: /etc/shorewall/macro.SSH: #ACTION SOURCE PROTO DEST SOURCE RATE USER/ # PORT(S) PORT(S) LIMIT GROUP COMMENT My SSH Macro PARAM - - tcp 22 /etc/shorewall/rules: COMMENT Allow SSH from home SSH/ALLOW net:$MYIP $FW COMMENT The comment line in macro.SSH will not override the COMMENT line in the rules file and the generated rule will show /* Allow SSH from home */ when displayed through the Shorewall show and dump commands. If a macro is invoked and there is no current comment, then the name of the macro automatically becomes the current comment. This makes macros self-commenting. 11) If the program named in SHOREWALL_SHELL doesn't exist or is not executable, Shorewall and Shorewall-lite now both fall back to /bin/sh after issuing a warning message. Previously, both terminated with a fatal error. 12) Shorewall-perl now generates fatal error conditions if there are no IPv4 zones defined or there are no interfaces defined. 13) Shorewall now unconditionally uses tc filter rules to classify traffic by MARK value. Previously, Shorewall used the CLASSIFY target in the POSTROUTING chain if it was available. 14) The Shorewall-common installer (install.sh) now works on Windows under Cygwin. To install Shorewall-perl under Cygwin: $ tar -zxf shorewall-perl-4.x.y.tar.bz2 $ tar -zxf shorewall-common-4.x.y.tar.bz2 $ cd shorewall-perl-4.x.y $ USER= GROUP=None ./install.sh $ cd ../shorewall-common-4.x.y $ USER= GROUP=None ./install.sh The 'shorewall' program is installed in /bin/ (a.k.a, /usr/bin/). 15) When installing on Cygwin, /etc/shorewall is no longer fully populated. Rather, only the shorewall.conf and params files are installed. As always, the full configuration file set is installed in /usr/share/shorewall/configfiles. 16) Specifying a destination zone in a NAT-only rule now generates a warning and the destination zone is ignored. NAT-only rules are: NONAT REDIRECT- DNAT- 17) The /etc/shorewall/masq and /etc/shorewall/nat file now accept a comma-separated list of interface names where before only a single interface name could be listed (Shorewall-perl only). This feature is not for beginners. It iterates over the list of interfaces, substituting each interface in place of the list and processing the resulting entry according to the semantics of earlier Shorewall versions. If you don't know where to use this, don't try. Example 1: /etc/shorewall/masq: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS eth0,eth1 eth2 1.2.3.4 equivalent to: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS eth0 eth2 1.2.3.4 eth1 eth2 1.2.3.4 Example 2: /etc/shorewall/masq: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS eth0,eth1::192.168.1.0/24 eth2 1.2.3.4 equivalent to: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS eth0::192.168.1.0/24 eth2 1.2.3.4 eth1::192.168.1.0/24 eth2 1.2.3.4 Example 3: /etc/shorewall/nat: #EXTERNAL INTERFACE INTERNAL 206.124.146.178 eth0,wlan0 192.168.1.3 equivalent to: #EXTERNAL INTERFACE INTERNAL 206.124.146.178 eth0 192.168.1.3 206.124.146.178 wlan0 192.168.1.3 18) Previously, the INTERFACE name used in the masq, nat and netmap files had to exactly match the name of an interface from the interfaces file. Beginning with Shorewall-perl 4.1.4, the interface may loosely match a wildcard entry in the interfaces file. Example: /etc/shorewall/interfaces: vpn tun+ /etc/shorewall/masq: tun1 192.168.4.0/24 19) Previously, Shorewall classified non-firewall zones as either 'simple' or 'complex'. Attributes of a zone which made it 'complex' included: - The zone was of type 'ipsec' or 'ipsec4' or it had a hosts entry with the 'ipsec' options. - The zone had OPTIONS, IN OPTIONS or OUT OPTIONS - The zone had more than one network on a given interface - The zone had a hosts file entry with an exclusion. - The zone had a hosts file entry specifying an ipset. The handling of 'simple' and 'complex' zones was different. - complex zones had their own 'forward' chain (named '_frwd'). - complex zones with exclusions had their own 'input' and 'output' chains. Beginning with Shorewall-perl 4.1, all non-firewall zones will be treated as 'complex'. This will have the effect of one additional filter chain per zone but in most cases, the average number of filter rules traversed by a connection request will be reduced. 20) The need for interface-specific chains (such as eth0_in, eth4_fwd, etc.) in the filter table has been drastically reduced. This has the effect of reducing the average number of rules that each packet must traverse. 21) The default value for LOG_MARTIANS is now 'Yes' ('On' in Shorewall-perl). Previously, the default value was 'No' ('Off' in Shorewall-perl). The shorewall.conf file has also been updated to specify a value of 'Yes' (which is interpreted as 'On' by Shorewall-perl). 22) Shorewall-perl now generates an error when a MAC address appears in a traffic shaping rule in the OUTPUT or POSTROUTING chains. 23) Macros are now self-commenting under control of a new AUTO_COMMENT option in shorewall.conf. When this option is set, if there is not a current comment when a macro is invoked, the behavior under Shorewall-perl is as if the first line of the macro file was "COMMENT ". So, if you have this rule: SSH/ACCEPT loc fw then the generated netfilter rule will include "/* SSH */" when viewed with 'iptables -L' or 'shorewall show loc2fw' or 'shorewall dump'. The AUTO_COMMENT option has a default value of 'Yes' and is only available under Shorewall-perl The option is ignored by Shorewall-shell.