Shorewall 2.1.5 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Problems Corrected since 2.0.3 1) A non-empty DEST entry in /etc/shorewall/tcrules will generate an error and Shorewall fails to start. 2) A potential security vulnerablilty in the way that Shorewall handles temporary files and directories has been corrected. 3) Two problems with logging NAT rules (DNAT and REDIRECT) could cause startup failures. 4) Some users have reported the pkttype match option in iptables/ Netfilter failing to match certain broadcast packets. The result is that the firewall log shows a lot of broadcast packets. Users experiencing this problem can use PKTTYPE=No in shorewall.conf to cause Shorewall to use IP address filtering of broadcasts rather than packet type. Problems Corrected since 2.1.0 1) The "check" command fails with the following message: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name Problems Corrected since 2.1.4 1) Per-interface options like 'norfc1918' are not applied to requests that have been unencrypted as a result of an entry in the SPD. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues when migrating from Shorewall 2.0 to Shorewall 2.1: 1) Shorewall configuration files except shorewall.conf are now empty (they contain only comments). If you wish to retain the defaults in any of the following files, you should copy these files before upgrading them then restore them after the upgrade: /etc/shorewall/zones /etc/shorewall/policy /etc/shorewall/tos 2) The following builtin actions have been removed and have been replaced by the new action logging implementation described in the new features below. logNotSyn rLogNotSyn dLogNotSyn 3) If shorewall.conf is upgraded to the latest version, it needs to be modified to set STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes 4) The Leaf/Bering version of Shorewall was previously named: shorwall-.lrp Beginning with 2.1, that file will now be named: shorewall-lrp-.tgz Simply rename that file to 'shorwall.lrp' when installing it on your LEAF/Bering system. 5) The ORIGINAL DEST column of the /etc/shorewall/rules file may no longer contain a second (SNAT) address. You must use an entry in /etc/shorewall/masq instead. Example from Shorewall FAQ #1: Prior to Shorewall 2.1: /etc/shorewall/interfaces loc eth1 detect routeback,... /etc/shorewall/rules DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.12 tcp 80 \ - 130.252.100.69:192.168.1.254 Shorewall 2.1 and Later: /etc/shorewall/interfaces loc eth1 detect routeback,... /etc/shorewall/masq: eth1 eth1 192.168.1.254 tcp 80 /etc/shorewall/rules: DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.12 tcp 80 \ - 130.252.100.69 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New Features: 1) ICMP packets that are in the INVALID state are now dropped by the Reject and Drop default actions. They do so using the new 'dropInvalid' builtin action. 2) The /etc/shorewall/masq file INTERFACE column now allows additional options. Normally MASQUERADE/SNAT rules are evaluated after one-to-one NAT rules defined in the /etc/shorewall/nat file. If you preceed the interface name with a plus sign ("+") then the rule will be evaluated before one-to-one NAT. Examples: +eth0 +eth1:192.0.2.32/27 Also, the effect of ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes can be negated for an entry by following the interface name by ":" but no digit. Examples: eth0: eth1::192.0.2.32/27 +eth3: 3) Similar to 2), the /etc/shorewall/nat file INTERFACE column now allows you to override the setting of ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes by following the interface name with ":" but no digit. 4) All configuration files in the Shorewall distribution with the exception of shorewall.conf are now empty. In particular, the /etc/shorewall/zones, /etc/shorewall/policy and /etc/shorewall/tos files now have no active entries. Hopefully this will stop the questions on the support and development lists regarding why the default entries are the way they are. 5) Previously, specifying a log level (and optionally a log tag) on a rule that specified a user-defined (or Shorewall-defined) action would log all traffic passed to the action. Beginning with this release, specifying a log level in a rule that specifies a user- or Shorewall-defined action will cause each rule in the action to be logged with the specified level (and tag). The extent to which logging of action rules occurs is goverend by the following: a) When you invoke an action and specify a log level, only those rules in the action that have no log level will be changed to log at the level specified at the action invocation. Example: /etc/shorewall/action.foo: ACCEPT - - tcp 22 bar:info /etc/shorewall/rules: foo:debug fw net Logging in the invoke 'foo' action will be: ACCEPT:debug - - tcp 22 bar:info b) If you follow the log level with "!" then logging will be at that level for all rules recursively invoked by the action Example: /etc/shorewall/action.foo: ACCEPT - - tcp 22 bar:info /etc/shorewall/rules: foo:debug! fw net Logging in the invoke 'foo' action will be: ACCEPT:debug - - tcp 22 bar:debug! This change has an effect on extension scripts used with user-defined actions. If you define an action 'acton' and you have a /etc/shorewall/acton script then when that script is invoked, the following three variables will be set for use by the script: $CHAIN = the name of the chain where your rules are to be placed. When logging is used on an action invocation, Shorewall creates a chain with a slightly different name from the action itself. $LEVEL = Log level. If empty, no logging was specified. $TAG = Log Tag. Example: /etc/shorewall/rules: acton:info:test Your /etc/shorewall/acton file will be run with: $CHAIN="acton1" $LEVEL="info" $TAG="test" 6) The /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled file is no longer created when Shorewall is first installed. Rather, the variable STARTUP_ENABLED is set to 'No' in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. In order to get Shorewall to start, that variable's value must be set to 'Yes'. This change accomplishes two things: a) It prevents Shorewall from being started prematurely by the user's initialization scripts. b) It causes /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf to be modified so that it won't be replaced by upgrades using RPM. 7) Some additional support has been added for the 2.6 Kernel IPSEC implementation. To use this support, you must have installed the IPSEC policy match patch from Patch-0-Matic-ng. That patch affects both your kernel and iptables. This new Shorewall support is enabled through use of the 'ipsec' option in /etc/shorewall/hosts. Example: Under 2.4 Kernel FreeS/Wan: /etc/shorewall/zones: net Net The big bad Internet vpn VPN Remote Network /etc/shorewall/interfaces: net eth0 ... vpn ipsec0 ... Under 2.6 Kernel with this new support: /etc/shorewall/zones (note the change of order): vpn VPN Remote Network net Net The big bad Internet /etc/shorewall/interfaces: net eth0 ... /etc/shorewall/hosts: vpn eth0:0.0.0.0/0 ipsec The /etc/shorewall/masq file has a new IPSEC column added. If you specify Yes or yes in that column then the unencrypted packets will have their source address changed. Otherwise, the unencrypted packets will not have their source addresses changed. 8) To improve interoperability, tunnels of type 'ipsec' no longer enforce the use of source port 500 for ISAKMP. 9) A new 'allowBcast' builtin action has been added -- it silently allows broadcasts and multicasts.