This is a minor release of Shorewall. Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6: 1) Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED variable was being tested before it was set. 2) Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in an invalid iptables command. 3) The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having configured Shorewall. 4) A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the addresses were successfully added in spite of the messages. The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error messages. 5) Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page (previously named "Dynamic Chain"). 6) Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work again. Migration Issues: 1) IP Traffic Accounting is changed from Snapshot 20030813. 2) The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821 has changed -- see the User Set page for details. 3) The per-interface dynamic blacklisting facility from previous 1.4.6 Snapshots has been removed. The implications of the facility for users with dial-up internet connections were too complicated to document adaquately. My apologies for unleashing this half-baked idea on the user base. New Features: 1) The 2.6 series of Linux kernels will not support the 'unclean' match extension except in Patch-O-Matic. In keeping with the Shorewall policy of not supporting netfilter extensions that are only available in Patch-O-Matic, the 'dropunclean' and 'logunclean' interface options will be removed in a future release. In the 1.4.7 release, they are flagged with a warning. 2) Thanks to Steve Herber, the help command can now give command-specific help. 3) A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default value of "No" for existing Shorewall users who are upgrading to this release. With this setting, Shorewall's 'stopped' state continues as it has been; namely, in the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in /etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted. The default for new users installing Shorewall for the first time is ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes.With that setting, in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in /etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow: a) All traffic originating from the firewall itself; and b) All traffic that is part of or related to an already-existing connection. In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a "shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill the session. Note though that it is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the foot. Example: /etc/shorewall/nat: 206.124.146.178 eth0:0 192.168.1.5 /etc/shorewall/rules: ACCEPT net loc:192.168.1.5 tcp 22 ACCEPT loc fw tcp 22 I ssh into 206.124.146.178 which establishes an SSH connection with 192.168.1.5. I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part of stopping, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!! 4) Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided to add "generic" tunnel support. Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate rules/policies to implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from those systems. In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of the form: # TYPE ZONE GATEWAY GATEWAY ZONE generic:[:] where: is the protocol used by the tunnel if the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination port number used by the tunnel. is the zone of the remote tunnel gateway is the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway. Optional. A comma-separated list of zone names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered part of these zones. 5) An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf//arp_filter to be set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP 'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out of that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified). Note that using such a configuration in a production environment is strongly recommended against. 6) The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges. Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin fashion. 7) An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow for traffic accounting.. The accounting rules are placed in a chain called "accounting" and can thus be displayed using "shorewall show accounting". The file has the following columns: ACTION - What to do when a match is found. Possible values are: COUNT - Simply count the match and continue trying to match the packet with the following accounting rules. DONE - Count the match and don't attempt to match any following accounting rules. - The name of a chain to jump to. Shorewall will create the chain automatically. If the name of the chain is followed by ":COUNT" then a COUNT rule matching this rule will automatically be added to CHAIN - The name of the chain where the accounting rule is to be added. If empty or "-" then the "accounting" chain is assumed. SOURCE - Packet Source The name of an interface, an address (host or net) or an interface name followed by ":" and a host or net address. DESTINATION - Packet Destination Format the same as the SOURCE column. PROTOCOL A protocol name (from /etc/protocols), a protocol number. DEST PORT Destination Port number Service name from /etc/services or port number. May only be specified if the protocol is TCP or UDP (6 or 17). SOURCE PORT Source Port number Service name from /etc/services or port number. May only be specified if the protocol is TCP or UDP (6 or 17). In all columns except ACTION and CHAIN, the values "-","any" and "all" are treated as wild-cards. The accounting rules are evaluated in the Netfilter 'filter' table. This is the same environment where the 'rules' file rules are evaluated and in this environment, DNAT has already occurred in inbound packets and SNAT has not yet occurred on outbound ones. The accounting rules are placed in a chain called "accounting" and can thus be displayed using "shorewall show accounting". See http://shorewall.net/Accounting.html for examples. 8) Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in /etc/shorewall/maclist. 9) ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in /etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule, you will need to create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT rule which can be rate-limited separately. To specify a rate limit, you can follow one of two approaches: a) You may follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with < /[:] > where is the sustained rate per is "sec" or "min" is the largest burst accepted within an . If not given, the default of 5 is assumed. There may be no white space between the ACTION and "<" nor there may be any white space within the burst specification. If you want to specify logging of a rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the ">" (e.g., ACCEPT<2/sec:4>:info ). b) There is a new RATE LIMIT column at the far right of the file (beyond column 80). You may place the rate limit there in the format: /[:] where , and are as above. You may not place a rate limit in both the ACTION and RATE LIMIT columns. Let's take an example: ACCEPT<2/sec:4> net dmz tcp 80 The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1 second divided by the rate of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule, regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second, the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started. Warning: When rate limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of zones covered by the rule. 10) Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD OUTPUT). 11) Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html for details.