<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <refentry> <refmeta> <refentrytitle>shorewall-lite</refentrytitle> <manvolnum>8</manvolnum> </refmeta> <refnamediv> <refname>shorewall-lite</refname> <refpurpose>Administration tool for Shoreline Firewall Lite (Shorewall-lite)</refpurpose> </refnamediv> <refsynopsisdiv> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>allow</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>clear</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>drop</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> 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choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable>/<replaceable>vlsm</replaceable></arg> </group> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>iprange</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address1</replaceable><option>-</option><replaceable>address2</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>logdrop</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>logwatch</option></arg> <arg><option>-m</option></arg> <arg><replaceable>refresh-interval</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>logreject</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>reject</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>address</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>restart</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>restore</option></arg> <arg><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>save</option></arg> <arg choice="opt"><replaceable>filename</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>show</option></arg> <arg><option>-x</option></arg> <arg><option>-t</option> {<option>filter</option>|<option>mangle</option>|<option>nat</option>|<option>raw</option>}</arg> <arg rep="repeat"><replaceable>chain</replaceable></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>show</option></arg> <arg><option>-f</option></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>capabilities</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>show</option></arg> <arg choice="req"><option>actions|classifiers|connections|config|macros|zones</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>show</option></arg> <arg><option>-x</option></arg> <arg 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</cmdsynopsis> <cmdsynopsis> <command>shorewall-lite</command> <arg>-<replaceable>options</replaceable></arg> <arg choice="plain"><option>version</option></arg> </cmdsynopsis> </refsynopsisdiv> <refsect1> <title>Description</title> <para>The shorewall-lite utility is used to control the Shoreline Firewall (Shorewall) Lite.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Options</title> <para>The <emphasis>options</emphasis> control the amount of output that the command produces. They consist of a sequence of the letters <emphasis role="bold">v</emphasis> and <emphasis role="bold">q</emphasis>. If the options are omitted, the amount of output is determined by the setting of the VERBOSITY parameter in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5). Each <emphasis role="bold">v</emphasis> adds one to the effective verbosity and each <emphasis role="bold">q</emphasis> subtracts one from the effective VERBOSITY.</para> <para>The <emphasis>options</emphasis> may also include the letter <option>t</option> which causes all progress messages to be timestamped.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>Commands</title> <para>The available commands are listed below.</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">add</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Adds a list of hosts or subnets to a dynamic zone usually used with VPN's.</para> <para>The <emphasis>interface</emphasis> argument names an interface defined in the <ulink url="shorewall-interfaces.html">shorewall-interfaces</ulink>(5) file. A <emphasis>host-list</emphasis> is comma-separated list whose elements are:</para> <programlisting> A host or network address The name of a bridge port The name of a bridge port followed by a colon (:) and a host or network address</programlisting> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">allow</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Re-enables receipt of packets from hosts previously blacklisted by a <emphasis role="bold">drop</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">logdrop</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">reject</emphasis>, or <emphasis role="bold">logreject</emphasis> command.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">clear</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Clear will remove all rules and chains installed by Shorewall Lite. The firewall is then wide open and unprotected. Existing connections are untouched. Clear is often used to see if the firewall is causing connection problems.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">delete</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>The delete command reverses the effect of an earlier <emphasis role="bold">add</emphasis> command.</para> <para>The <emphasis>interface</emphasis> argument names an interface defined in the <ulink url="shorewall-interfaces.html">shorewall-interfaces</ulink>(5) file. A <emphasis>host-list</emphasis> is comma-separated list whose elements are:</para> <programlisting> A host or network address The name of a bridge port The name of a bridge port followed by a colon (:) and a host or network address</programlisting> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">drop</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Causes traffic from the listed <emphasis>address</emphasis>es to be silently dropped.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">dump</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Produces a verbose report about the firewall configuration for the purpose of problem analysis.</para> <para>The <emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis> option causes actual packet and byte counts to be displayed. Without that option, these counts are abbreviated. The <emphasis role="bold">-m</emphasis> option causes any MAC addresses included in Shorewall Lite log messages to be displayed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">forget</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Deletes /var/lib/shorewall-lite/<emphasis>filenam</emphasis>e and /var/lib/shorewall-lite/save. If no <emphasis>filename</emphasis> is given then the file specified by RESTOREFILE in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5) is assumed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">help</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays a syntax summary.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">hits</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Generates several reports from Shorewall Lite log messages in the current log file.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">ipcalc</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Ipcalc displays the network address, broadcast address, network in CIDR notation and netmask corresponding to the input[s].</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">iprange</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Iprange decomposes the specified range of IP addresses into the equivalent list of network/host addresses.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">logdrop</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Causes traffic from the listed <emphasis>address</emphasis>es to be logged then discarded.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">logwatch</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Monitors the log file specified by theLOGFILE option in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5) and produces an audible alarm when new Shorewall Lite messages are logged. The <emphasis role="bold">-m</emphasis> option causes the MAC address of each packet source to be displayed if that information is available.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">logreject</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Causes traffic from the listed <emphasis>address</emphasis>es to be logged then rejected.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">reset</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>All the packet and byte counters in the firewall are reset.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">restart</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Restart is similar to <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite stop</emphasis> followed by <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite start</emphasis>. Existing connections are maintained. I.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">restore</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Restore Shorewall Lite to a state saved using the <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite save</emphasis> command. Existing connections are maintained. The <emphasis>filename</emphasis> names a restore file in /var/lib/shorewall-lite created using <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite save</emphasis>; if no <emphasis>filename</emphasis> is given then Shorewall Lite will be restored from the file specified by the RESTOREFILE option in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5).</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">save</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>The dynamic blacklist is stored in /var/lib/shorewall-lite/save. The state of the firewall is stored in /var/lib/shorewall-lite/<emphasis>filename</emphasis> for use by the <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite restore</emphasis> and <emphasis role="bold">shorewall-lite -f start</emphasis> commands. If <emphasis>filename</emphasis> is not given then the state is saved in the file specified by the RESTOREFILE option in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5).</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">show</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>The show command can have a number of different arguments:</para> <variablelist> <varlistentry> <term>[ <emphasis>chain</emphasis> ] ...</term> <listitem> <para>The rules in each <emphasis>chain</emphasis> are displayed ssing the <emphasis role="bold">iptables -L</emphasis> <emphasis>chain</emphasis> <emphasis role="bold">-n -v</emphasis> command. If no <emphasis>chain</emphasis> is given, all of the chains in the filter table are displayed. The <emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis> option is passed directly through to iptables and causes actual packet and byte counts to be displayed. Without this option, those counts are abbreviated.</para> <para>The <emphasis role="bold">-t</emphasis> option designates the Netfilter table to be displayed. Without that option, the <emphasis role="bold">filter</emphasis> table is assumed.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">actions</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Produces a report about the available actions (built-in, standard and user-defined).</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">capabilities</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays your kernel/iptables capabilities. The <emphasis role="bold">-f</emphasis> option causes the display to be formatted as a capabilities file for use with <emphasis role="bold">compile -e</emphasis>.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">classifiers</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays information about the packet classifiers defined on the system as a result of traffic shaping configuration.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">config</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Dispays distribution-specific defaults.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">connections</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays the IP connections currently being tracked by the firewall.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">macros</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays information about each macro defined on the firewall system.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">mangle</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays the Netfilter mangle table using the command <emphasis role="bold">iptables -t mangle -L -n -v</emphasis>.The <emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis> option is passed directly through to iptables and causes actual packet and byte counts to be displayed. Without this option, those counts are abbreviated.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">nat</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays the Netfilter nat table using the command <emphasis role="bold">iptables -t nat -L -n -v</emphasis>.The <emphasis role="bold">-x</emphasis> option is passed directly through to iptables and causes actual packet and byte counts to be displayed. Without this option, those counts are abbreviated.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">tc</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays information about queuing disciplines, classes and filters.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">zones</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays the current composition of the Shorewall Lite zones on the system.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">start</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Start shorewall Lite. Existing connections through shorewall-lite managed interfaces are untouched. New connections will be allowed only if they are allowed by the firewall rules or policies. If <emphasis role="bold">-f</emphasis> is specified, the saved configuration specified by the RESTOREFILE option in <ulink url="shorewall-lite.conf.html">shorewall-lite.conf</ulink>(5) will be restored if that saved configuration exists and has been modified more recently than the files in /etc/shorewall.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">stop</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Stops the firewall. All existing connections, except those listed in <ulink url="shorewall-routestopped.html">shorewall-routestopped</ulink>(5) or permitted by the ADMINISABSENTMINDED option in shorewall.conf(5), are taken down. The only new traffic permitted through the firewall is from systems listed in <ulink url="shorewall-routestopped.html">shorewall-routestopped</ulink>(5) or by ADMINISABSENTMINDED.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">status</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Produces a short report about the state of the Shorewall-configured firewall.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry> <term><emphasis role="bold">version</emphasis></term> <listitem> <para>Displays Shorewall-lite's version.</para> </listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>FILES</title> <para>/etc/shorewall-lite/</para> </refsect1> <refsect1> <title>See ALSO</title> <para><ulink url="http://www.shorewall.net/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">http://www.shorewall.net/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm</ulink></para> <para>shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5), shorewall-blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall-interfaces(5), shorewall-ipsec(5), shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5), shorewall-nat(5), shorewall-netmap(5), shorewall-params(5), shorewall-policy(5), shorewall-providers(5), shorewall-proxyarp(5), shorewall-route_rules(5), shorewall-routestopped(5), shorewall-rules(5), shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5), shorewall-tcdevices(5), shorewall-tcrules(5), shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5), shorewall-zones(5)</para> </refsect1> </refentry>