shorewall-zones5zonesShorewall zone declaration file/etc/shorewall/zonesDescriptionThe /etc/shorewall/zones file declares your network zones. You
specify the hosts in each zone through entries in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces or
/etc/shorewall/hosts.The columns in the file are as follows.ZONE -
zone[:parent-zone[,parent-zone]...]Name of the zone. Must start with a
letter and consist of letters, digits or '_'. The names "all",
"none", "any", "SOURCE" and "DEST" are reserved and may not be used
as zone names. The maximum length of a zone name is determined by
the setting of the LOGFORMAT option in shorewall.conf(5). With the
default LOGFORMAT, zone names can be at most 5 characters
long.
The maximum length of an iptables log prefix is 29 bytes. As
explained in shorewall.conf (5), the default
LOGPREFIX formatting string is “Shorewall:%s:%s:” where the first
%s is replaced by the chain name and the second is replaced by the
disposition.The default formatting string has 12 fixed characters
("Shorewall" and three colons).The longest of the standard dispositions are ACCEPT and
REJECT which have 6 characters each.The canonical name for the chain containing the rules
for traffic going from zone 1 to zone 2 is "<zone
1>2<zone 2>" or "<zone 1>-<zone
2>".So if M is the maximum zone name length, such chains can
have length 2*M + 1.12 + 6 + 2*M + 1 = 29 which reduces to2*M = 29 - 12 - 6 - 1 = 10 orM = 5
The order in which Shorewall matches addresses from packets to
zones is determined by the order of zone declarations. Where a zone
is nested in one or more other zones, you may either ensure that the
nested zone precedes its parents in this file, or you may follow the
(sub)zone name by ":" and a comma-separated list of the parent
zones. The parent zones must have been declared in earlier records
in this file. See shorewall-nesting(5) for
additional information.Example:#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS IN OPTIONS OUT OPTIONS
a ipv4
b ipv4
c:a,b ipv4Currently, Shorewall uses this information to reorder the zone
list so that parent zones appear after their subzones in the list.
The IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option in shorewall.conf(5) can also create
implicit CONTINUE policies to/from the subzone.Where an ipsec zone is
explicitly included as a child of an ipv4 zone, the ruleset allows CONTINUE
policies (explicit or implicit) to work as expected.In the future, Shorewall may make additional use of nesting
information.TYPEipv4This is the standard Shorewall zone type and is the
default if you leave this column empty or if you enter "-" in
the column. Communication with some zone hosts may be
encrypted. Encrypted hosts are designated using the
'ipsec'option in shorewall-hosts(5).ipsec (or ipsec4)Communication with all zone hosts is encrypted. Your
kernel and iptables must include policy match support.firewallDesignates the firewall itself. You must have exactly
one 'firewall' zone. No options are permitted with a
'firewall' zone. The name that you enter in the ZONE column
will be stored in the shell variable $FW which you may use in
other configuration files to designate the firewall
zone.bport (or bport4)The zone is associated with one or more ports on a
single bridge.vserverAdded in Shorewall 4.4.11 Beta 2 - A zone composed of
Linux-vserver guests. The zone contents must be defined in
shorewall-hosts
(5).Vserver zones are implicitly handled as subzones of the
firewall zone.OPTIONS, IN OPTIONS and OUT
OPTIONS - [option[,option]...]A comma-separated list of options. With the exception of the
option, these only apply to TYPE
zones.blacklistAdded in Shorewall 4.4.13.When specified in the IN_OPTIONS column, causes all
traffic from this zone to be passed against the src entries in shorewall-blacklist(5).When specified in the OUT_OPTIONS column, causes all
traffic to this zone to be passed against the dst entries in shorewall-blacklist(5).Specifying this option in the OPTIONS column is
equivalent to entering it in both of the IN_OPTIONS and
OUT_OPTIONS column.reqid=numberwhere number is specified using
setkey(8) using the 'unique:number option
for the SPD level.spi=<number>where number is the SPI of the SA
used to encrypt/decrypt packets.proto=ah|esp|ipcompIPSEC Encapsulation Protocolmss=numbersets the MSS field in TCP packets. If you supply this
option, you should also set FASTACCEPT=No in shorewall.conf(5) to insure
that both the SYN and SYN,ACK packets have their MSS field
adjusted.mode=transport|tunnelIPSEC modetunnel-src=address[/mask]only available with mode=tunneltunnel-dst=address[/mask]only available with mode=tunnelstrictMeans that packets must match all rules.nextSeparates rules; can only be used with strictThe options in the OPTIONS column are applied to both incoming
and outgoing traffic. The IN OPTIONS are applied to incoming traffic
(in addition to OPTIONS) and the OUT OPTIONS are applied to outgoing
traffic.If you wish to leave a column empty but need to make an entry
in a following column, use "-".FILES/etc/shorewall/zonesSee ALSOhttp://www.shorewall.net/Multiple_Zones.html.shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5),
shorewall-blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall-interfaces(5),
shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5), shorewall-nat(5),
shorewall-nesting(8), 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-secmarks(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5),
shorewall-tcdevices(5), shorewall-tcrules(5), shorewall-tos(5),
shorewall-tunnels(5)