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<article id="upgrade_issues">
<articleinfo>
<title>Upgrade Issues</title>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2003</year>
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<year>2007</year>
<year>2008</year>
<year>2009</year>
<year>2012</year>
<year>2013</year>
<year>2015</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
<holder/>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink type="" url="copyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section id="Important">
<title>Important</title>
<para>It is important that you read all of the sections on this page where
the version number mentioned in the section title is later than what you
are currently running.</para>
<para>In the descriptions that follows, the term
<emphasis>group</emphasis> refers to a particular network or subnetwork
(which may be <literal>0.0.0.0/0</literal> or it may be a host address)
accessed through a particular interface.</para>
<para>Examples:</para>
<simplelist columns="1" type="vert">
<member><literal>eth0:0.0.0.0/0</literal></member>
<member><literal>eth2:192.168.1.0/24</literal></member>
<member><literal>eth3:192.0.2.123</literal></member>
</simplelist>
<para>You can use the <command moreinfo="none">shorewall show
zones</command> command to see the groups associated with each of your
zones.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Version &gt;= 5.0.0</title>
<para>See the <ulink url="Shorewall-5.html">Shorewall 5
documentation</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Version &gt;= 4.6.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.0, section headers are now preceded
by '?' (e.g., '?SECTION ...'). If your configuration contains any bare
'SECTION' entries, the following warning is issued:</para>
<programlisting>WARNING: 'SECTION' is deprecated in favor of '?SECTION' - consider running 'shorewall update -D' ...</programlisting>
<para>As mentioned in the message, running 'shorewall[6] update -D'
will eliminate the warning.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.0, the 'tcrules' file has been
superseded by the 'mangle' file. Existing 'tcrules' files will still
be processed, with the restriction that TPROXY is no longer supported
in FORMAT 1. If your 'tcrules' file has non-commentary entries, the
following warning message is issued:</para>
<programlisting>WARNING: Non-empty tcrules file (...); consider running 'shorewall update -t'</programlisting>
<para>See <ulink url="manpages/shorewall.html">shorewall</ulink>(8)
for limitations of 'update -t'.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default value LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY is now 'Yes'.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.0, FORMAT-1 actions and macros are
deprecated and a warning will be issued for each FORMAT-1 action or
macro found.</para>
<programlisting>WARNING: FORMAT-1 actions are deprecated and support will be dropped in a future release.</programlisting>
<programlisting>WARNING: FORMAT-1 macros are deprecated and support will be dropped in a future release.</programlisting>
<para>To eliminate these warnings, add the following line before the
first rule in the action or macro:</para>
<programlisting>?FORMAT 2</programlisting>
<para>and adjust the columns appropriately. FORMAT-1 actions have the
following columns:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>TARGET</member>
<member>SOURCE</member>
<member>DEST</member>
<member>PROTO</member>
<member>DEST PORT(S)</member>
<member>SOURCE PORT(S)</member>
<member>RATE/LIMIT</member>
<member>USER/GROUP</member>
<member>MARK</member>
</simplelist>
<para>while FORMAT-2 actions have these columns:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>TARGET</member>
<member>SOURCE</member>
<member>DEST</member>
<member>PROTO</member>
<member>DEST PORT(S)</member>
<member>SOURCE PORT(S)</member>
<member>ORIGINAL DEST</member>
<member>RATE/LIMIT</member>
<member>USER/GROUP</member>
<member>MARK</member>
<member>CONLIMIT</member>
<member>TIME</member>
<member>HEADERS (Used in IPv6 only)</member>
<member>CONDITION</member>
<member>HELPER</member>
</simplelist>
<para>FORMAT-1 macros have the following columns:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>TARGET</member>
<member>SOURCE</member>
<member>DEST</member>
<member>PROTO</member>
<member>DEST PORT(S)</member>
<member>SOURCE PORT(S)</member>
<member>RATE/LIMIT</member>
<member>USER/GROUP</member>
</simplelist>
<para>while FORMAT-2 macros have the following columns:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>TARGET</member>
<member>SOURCE</member>
<member>DEST</member>
<member>PROTO</member>
<member>DEST PORT(S)</member>
<member>SOURCE PORT(S)</member>
<member>ORIGINAL DEST</member>
<member>RATE/LIMIT</member>
<member>USER/GROUP</member>
<member>MARK</member>
<member>CONLIMIT</member>
<member>TIME</member>
<member>HEADERS (Used in IPv6 only)</member>
<member>CONDITION</member>
<member>HELPER</member>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Versions &gt;= 4.5.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall, Shorewall6, Shorewall-lite and Shorewall6-lite now
depend on the new package Shorewall-core. If you use the Shorewall
installers, you must install Shorewall-core prior to installing or
upgrading any of the other packages.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The BLACKLIST section of the rules file has been eliminated. If
you have entries in that file section, you must move them to the
blrules file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This version of Shorewall requires the Digest::SHA1 or the
Digest:SHA Perl module.</para>
<simplelist>
<member>Debian: libdigest-sha-perl</member>
<member>Fedora: perl-Digest-SHA1</member>
<member>OpenSuSE: perl-Digest-SHA1</member>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The generated firewall script now maintains the
/var/lib/shorewall[6][-lite]/interface.status files used by SWPING and
by LSM.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.2, using /etc/shorewall-lite/vardir
and /etc/shorewall6-lite/vardir to specify VARDIR is deprecated in
favor of the VARDIR setting in shorewallrc.</para>
<para>NOTE: While the name of the variable remains VARDIR, the meaning
is slightly different. When set in shorewallrc, each product
(shorewall-lite, and shorewall6-lite) will create a directory under
the specified path name to hold state information.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>VARDIR=/opt/var/</para>
<para>The state directory for shorewall-lite will be
/opt/var/shorewall-lite/ and the directory for shorewall6-lite will
be /opt/var/shorewall6-lite.</para>
</blockquote>
<para>When VARDIR is set in /etc/shorewall[6]/vardir, the product will
save its state directly in the specified directory.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Begining with Shorewall 4.5.6, the tcrules file is processed if
MANGLE_ENABLED=Yes, independent of the setting of TC_ENABLED. This
allows actions like TTL and TPROXY to be used without enabling traffic
shaping. If you have rules in your tcrules file that you only want
processed when TC_ENABLED is other than 'No', then enclose them
in</para>
<blockquote>
<para>?IF $TC_ENABLED</para>
<para>...</para>
<para>?ENDIF</para>
</blockquote>
<para>If they are to be processed only if TC_ENABLED=Internal, then
enclose them in</para>
<blockquote>
<para>?IF TC_ENABLED eq 'Internal'</para>
<para>...</para>
<para>?ENDIF.</para>
</blockquote>
<para/>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.7, the deprecated
/etc/shorewall[6]/blacklist files are no longer installed. Existing
files are still processed by the compiler.</para>
<para>Note that blacklist files may be converted to equivalent blrules
files using <command>shorewall[6] update -b</command>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In Shorewall 4.5.7, the
<filename>/etc/shorewall[6]/notrack</filename> file was renamed
<filename>/etc/shorewall[6]/conntrack</filename>. When upgrading to a
release &gt;= 4.5.7, the <filename>conntrack</filename> file will be
installed along side of an existing <filename>notrack</filename>
file.</para>
<para>If the 'notrack' file is non-empty, a warning message is issued
during compilation:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>WARNING: Non-empty notrack file (...); please move its
contents to the conntrack file</para>
</blockquote>
<para>This warning can be eliminated by removing the notrack file (if
it has no entries), or by moving its entries to the conntrack file and
removing the notrack file. Note that the conntrack file is always
populated with rules</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In Shorewall 4.5.8, the /etc/shorewall[6]/routestopped files
were deprecated if favor of new /etc/shorewall[6]/stoppedrules
counterparts. The new files have much more familiar and
straightforward semantics. Once a stoppedrules file is populated, the
compiler will process that file and will ignore the corresponding
routestopped file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In Shorewall 4.5.8, a new variable (VARLIB) was added to the
shorewallrc file. This variable assumes the role formerly played by
VARDIR, and VARDIR now designates the configuration directory for a
particular product.</para>
<para>This change should be transparent to all users:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>If VARDIR is set in an existing shorewallrc file and VARLIB
is not, then VARLIB is set to ${VARDIR} and VARDIR is set to
${VARLIB}/${PRODUCT}.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If VARLIB is set in a shorewallrc file and VARDIR is not,
then VARDIR is set to ${VARLIB}/${PRODUCT}.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>The Shorewall-core installer will automatically update
~/.shorewallrc and save the original in ~/.shorewallrc.bak.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Previously, the macro.SNMP macro opened both UDP ports 161 and
162 from SOURCE to DEST. This is against the usual practice of opening
these ports in the opposite direction. Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.8,
the SNMP macro opens port 161 from SOURCE to DEST as before, and a new
SNMPTrap macro is added that opens port 162 (from SOURCE to
DEST).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.11, ?FORMAT is preferred over
FORMAT for specifying the format of records in these configuration
files:</para>
<simplelist>
<member><filename>action</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>conntrack</filename></member>
<member><filename>interface</filename></member>
<member><filename>macro</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>tcrules</filename></member>
</simplelist>
<para>The first instance of 'FORMAT' (without the '?') will generate
this warning:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>WARNING: FORMAT is deprecated in favor of ?FORMAT; consider
running 'shorewall update -D'</member>
</simplelist>
<para>As the warning suggests, 'shorewall[6] update -D' will convert
all instances of FORMAT to ?FORMAT in files on the CONFIG_PATH.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Also beginning with Shorewalll 4.5.11, ?COMMENT is preferred
over COMMENT for specifying comments to be attached to generated
Netfilter rules in the following files:</para>
<simplelist>
<member><filename>accounting</filename></member>
<member><filename>action</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>blrules</filename></member>
<member><filename>conntrack</filename></member>
<member><filename>macro</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>masq</filename></member>
<member><filename>nat</filename></member>
<member><filename>rules</filename></member>
<member><filename>secmarks</filename></member>
<member><filename>tcrules</filename></member>
<member><filename>tunnels</filename></member>
</simplelist>
<para>The first instance of 'COMMENT' (without the '?') will generate
this warning:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>WARNING: COMMENT is deprecated in favor of ?COMMENT;
consider running 'shorewall update -D'</member>
</simplelist>
<para>As the warning suggests, 'shorewall[6] update -D' will convert
all instances of COMMENT to ?COMMENT in files on the
CONFIG_PATH.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Also beginning with Shorewalll 4.5.11, ?COMMENT is preferred
over COMMENT for specifying comments to be attached to generated
Netfilter rules in the following files:</para>
<simplelist>
<member><filename>accounting</filename></member>
<member><filename>action</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>blrules</filename></member>
<member><filename>conntrack</filename></member>
<member><filename>macro</filename>.* files</member>
<member><filename>masq</filename></member>
<member><filename>nat</filename></member>
<member><filename>rules</filename></member>
<member><filename>secmarks</filename></member>
<member><filename>tcrules</filename></member>
<member><filename>tunnels</filename></member>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>To allow finer-grained selection of the connection-tracking
states that are passed through blacklists (both dynamic and static), a
BLACKLIST option was added to shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf in
Shorewall 4.5.13.</para>
<para>The BLACKLISTNEWONLY option was deprecated at that point. A
'shorewall update' ( 'shorewall6 update' ) will replace the
BLACKLISTNEWONLY option with the equivalent BLACKLIST option.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In Shorewall 4.5.14, the BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL option was renamed
BLACKLIST_LOG_LEVEL to be consistent with the other log-level option
names. BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL continues to be accepted as a synonym for
BLACKLIST_LOG_LEVEL, but a 'shorewall update' or 'shorewall6 update'
command will replace BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL with BLACKLIST_LOG_LEVEL in
the new .conf file.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Versions &gt;= 4.4.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you are using Shorewall-perl, there are no additional upgrade
issues. If you are using Shorewall-shell or are upgrading from a
Shorewall version earlier than 4.0.0 then you will need to <ulink
url="Shorewall-perl.html">migrate to Shorewall-perl</ulink>.
Shorewall-4.3.5 and later only use the perl-based compiler.</para>
<para>If you have specified "SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell" in
shorewall.conf, then you must either:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>change that specification to "SHOREWALL_COMPILER=perl";
or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>change that specification to "SHOREWALL_COMPILER=";
or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>delete the specification altogether.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Failure to do so will result in the following
warning:<blockquote>
<para>WARNING: SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell ignored. Support for
Shorwall-shell has been removed in this release.</para>
</blockquote></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <command>shorewall stop</command>, <command>shorewall
clear</command>, <command>shorewall6 stop</command> and
<command>shorewall6 clear</command> commands no longer read the
<filename>routestopped</filename> file. The
<filename>routestopped</filename> file used is the one that was
present at the last <command>start</command>,
<command>restart</command> or <command>restore</command>
command.<important>
<para>If you modify the routestopped file, you must restart
Shorewall before the changes to that file will take effect.</para>
</important></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The old macro parameter syntax (e.g., SSH/ACCEPT) is now
deprecated in favor of the new syntax (e.g., SSH(ACCEPT)). The 4.3
documentation uses the new syntax exclusively, although the old syntax
continues to be supported.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for the SAME target in /etc/shorewall/masq and
/etc/shorewall/rules has been removed, following the removal of the
underlying support in the Linux kernel.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Supplying an interface name in the SOURCE column of
/etc/shorewall/masq is now deprecated. Entering the name of an
interface there will result in a compile-time warning:</para>
<para>WARNING: Using an interface as the masq SOURCE requires the
interface to be up and configured when Shorewall
starts/restarts</para>
<para>To avoid this warning, replace interface names by the
corresponding netwok(s) in CIDR format (e.g.,
192.168.144.0/24).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Previously, Shorewall has treated traffic shaping class IDs as
decimal numbers (or pairs of decimal numbers). That worked fine until
IPMARK was implemented. IPMARK requires Shorewall to generate class
Ids in numeric sequence. In 4.3.9, that didn't work correctly because
Shorewall was generating the sequence "..8,9,10,11..." when the
correct sequence was "...8,9,a,b,...". Shorewall now treats class IDs
as hex, like 'tc' and 'iptables' do.</para>
<para>This should only be an issue if you have more than 9 interfaces
defined in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcdevices</filename> and if you
use class IDs in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>. You will
need to renumber the class IDs for devices 10 and greater.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for the 'norfc1918' interface and host option has been
removed. If 'norfc1918' is specified for an entry in either the
interfaces or the hosts file, a warning is issued and the option is
ignored. Simply remove the option to avoid the warning.</para>
<para>Similarly, if RFC1918_STRICT=Yes or a non-empty
RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL is given in shorewall.conf, a warning will be issued
and the option will be ignored.</para>
<para>You may simply delete the RFC1918-related options from your
shorewall.conf file if you are seeing warnings regarding them.</para>
<para>Users who currently use 'norfc1918' are encouraged to consider
using NULL_ROUTE_RFC1918=Yes instead.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The install.sh scripts in the Shorewall and Shorewall6 packages
no longer create a backup copy of the existing configuration. If you
want your configuration backed up prior to upgrading, you will need to
do that yourself. As part of this change, the fallback.sh scripts are
no longer released.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Previously, if an ipsec zone was defined as a sub-zone of an
ipv4 or ipv6 zone using the special &lt;child&gt;:&lt;parent&gt;,...
syntax, CONTINUE policies for the sub-zone did not work as expected.
Traffic that was not matched by a sub-zone rule was not compared
against the parent zone(s) rules. In 4.4.0, such traffic IS compared
against the parent zone rules.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The name <emphasis role="bold">any</emphasis> is now reserved
and may not be used as a zone name.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Perl module initialization has changed in Shorewall 4.4.1.
Previously, each Shorewall Perl package would initialize its global
variables for IPv4 in an INIT block. Then, if the compilation turned
out to be for IPv6, Shorewall::Compiler::compiler() would reinitialize
them for IPv6.</para>
<para>Beginning in Shorewall 4.4.1, the modules do not initialize
themselves in an INIT block. So if you use Shorewall modules outside
of the Shorewall compilation environment, then you must explicitly
call the module's 'initialize' function after the module has been
loaded.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Checking for zone membership has been tighened up. Previously, a
zone could contain &lt;interface&gt;:0.0.0.0/0 along with other hosts;
now, if the zone has &lt;interface&gt;:0.0.0.0/0 (even with
exclusions), then it may have no additional members in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-hosts.html">/etc/shorewall/hosts</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>ADD_IP_ALIASES=No is now the setting in the released<ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html"> shorewall.conf</ulink> and in all
of the samples. This will not affect you during upgrade unless you
choose to replace your current shorewall.conf with the one from the
release (not recommended).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The names of interface configuration variables in generated
scripts have been changed to ensure uniqueness. These names now begin
with SW_. This change will only affect you if your extension scripts
are using one or more of these variables.</para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="2">
<tbody>
<row>
<entry>Old Variable Name</entry>
<entry>New Variable Name</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_address</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_ADDRESS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_BCASTS</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_BCASTS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_ACASTS</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_CASTS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_GATEWAY</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_NETWORKS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_ADDRESSES</entry>
<entry>SW_<literal>iface</literal>_ADDRESSES</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_NETWORKS</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_NETWORKS</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>iface</replaceable>_MAC</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>iface</replaceable>_MAC</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry><replaceable>provider</replaceable>_IS_USABLE</entry>
<entry>SW_<replaceable>provider</replaceable>_IS_USABLE</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
<para>were <replaceable>iface</replaceable> is a capitalized interface
name (e.g., ETH0) and <replaceable>provider</replaceable> is the
capitalized name of a provider.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If your <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-params.html">/etc/shorewall/params</ulink> (or
<ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-params.html">/etc/shorewall6/params</ulink>)
file sends output to Standard Output, you need to be aware that the
output will be redirected to Standard Error beginning with Shorewall
4.4.16.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.17, the EXPORTPARAMS option is
deprecated. With EXPORTPARAMS=No, the variables set by <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-params.html">/etc/shorewall/params</ulink>
(<ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-params.html">/etc/shorewall6/params</ulink>)
at compile time are now available in the compiled firewall
script.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <command>iprange</command> and <command>ipaddr</command>
commands require the 'bc' utility.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.26, the WIDE_TC_MARKS and
HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS options are deprecated in favor of TC_BITS,
MASK_BITS, PROVIDER_BITS and PROVIDER_OFFSET. See the <ulink
url="PacketMarking.html#Values">Packet Marking using
/etc/shorewall/tcrules</ulink> article. The <command>shorewall
update</command> (<command>shorewall6 update</command>) command will
automatically generate the correct values for these new options
depending on your settings of WIDE_TC_MARKS and
HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Be sure to check the latest 4.4 Release Notes linked from the <ulink
url="index.htm">home page</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>Versions &gt;= 4.2.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Previously, when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, Shorewall allowed
non-zero mark values &lt; 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.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Previously, Shorewall did not range-check the value of the
VERBOSITY option in shorewall.conf. Beginning with Shorewall 4.2: 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.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Specifying a destination zone in a NAT-only rule now generates a
warning and the destination zone is ignored. NAT-only rules
are:<simplelist>
<member>NONAT</member>
<member>REDIRECT-</member>
<member>DNAT-</member>
</simplelist></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default value for LOG_MARTIANS has been changed. Previously,
the defaults were: Shorewall-perl - 'Off' Shorewall-shell - 'No' The
new default values are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>Shorewall-perl</term>
<listitem>
<para>'On.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term>Shorewall-shell</term>
<listitem>
<para>'Yes'</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Shorewall-perl users may:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Accept the new default -- martians will be logged from all
interfaces with route filtering except those with log_martians=0
in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Explicitly set LOG_MARTIANS=Off to maintain compatibility
with prior versions of Shorewall.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Shorewall-shell users may:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Accept the new default -- martians will be logged from all
interfaces with the route filtering enabled.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Explicitly set LOG_MARTIANS=No to maintain compatibility
with prior versions of Shorewall.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The value of IMPLICIT_CONTINUE in shorewall.conf (and samples)
has been changed from Yes to No. If you are a Debian or Ubuntu user
and you select replacement of shorewall.conf during upgrade to
Shorewall 4.2, you will want to change IMPLICIT_CONTINUE back to 'Yes'
if you have nested zones that rely on IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes for proper
operation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The 'norfc1918' option is deprecated. Use explicit rules
instead. Note that there is a new 'Rfc1918' macro that acts on
addresses reserved by RFC 1918.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes is no longer supported by Shorewall-perl. Use
ipset-based zones instead.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="V4.0.0">
<title>Versions &gt;= 4.0.0-Beta7</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.0, there is no single 'shorewall'
package. Rather there are two compiler packages (shorewall-shell and
shorewall-perl) and a set of base files (shorewall-common) required by
either compiler package.</para>
<para>Although the names of the packages are changing, you can upgrade
without having to uninstall/reinstall.</para>
<para>To repeat: <emphasis role="bold">You do not need to uninstall
any existing package.</emphasis></para>
<para>If you attempt to upgrade using the shorewall-common RPM, you
get this result:<programlisting>gateway:~ # <command>rpm -Uvh shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm </command>
error: Failed dependencies:
shorewall_compiler is needed by shorewall-common-4.0.0-1.noarch
gateway:~ #</programlisting>You must either:<programlisting><command>rpm -Uvh shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm</command></programlisting>or<programlisting><command>rpm -Uvh shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-common-4.0.0.noarch.rpm</command></programlisting>If
you don't want shorewall-shell, you must use the second command
(installing both shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl) then remove
shorewall-shell using this command:<programlisting><command>rpm -e shorewall-shell</command></programlisting>If
you are upgrading using the tarball, you must install shorewall-shell
and/or shorewall-perl before you upgrade using shorewall-common.
Otherwise, the install.sh script fails with:<simplelist>
<member>ERROR: No Shorewall compiler is installed</member>
</simplelist>The shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl packages are
installed from the tarball in the expected way; untar the package, and
run the install.sh script.</para>
<para>Example 1: You have 'shorewall' installed and you want to
continue to use the shorewall-shell compiler.<programlisting><command>tar -jxf shorewall-common-4.0.0.tar.bz2
tar -jxf shorewall-shell-4.0.0.tar.bz2
pushd shorewall-shell-4.0.0
./install.sh
popd
pushd shorewall-common-4.0.0
./install.sh
shorewall check
shorewall restart</command></programlisting>Example 2: You have shorewall
3.4.4 and shorewall-perl 4.0.0-Beta7 installed and you want to upgrade
to 4.0. You do not need the shell-based compiler.<programlisting><command>tar -jxf shorewall-common-4.0.0.tar.bz2
tar -jxf shorewall-perl-4.0.0.tar.bz2
pushd shorewall-perl-4.0.0
./install.sh
popd
pushd /shorewall-common-4.0.0
./install.sh
shorewall check
shorewall restart</command></programlisting> The RPMs are set up so that if
you upgrade an existing Shorewall installation as part of a
distribution upgrade and you have not already installed
shorewall-perl, then you will end up with Shorewall-common and
Shorewall-shell installed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The ROUTE_FILTER and LOG_MARTIANS options in shorewall.conf work
slightly differently in Shorewall 4.0.0. In prior releases, leaving
these options empty was equivalent to setting them to 'No' which
caused the corresponding flag in /proc to be reset for all interfaces.
Beginning in Shorewall 4.0.0, leaving these options empty causes
Shorewall to leave the flags in /proc as they are. You must set the
option to 'No' in order to obtain the old behavior.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <option>:noah</option> option is now the default for ipsec
tunnels. Tunnels that use AH (protocol 51) must specify
<option>ipsec:ah</option> in the TYPE column.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Users upgrading from Debian Etch (Shorewall 3.2.6) to Debian
Lenny (Shoreall 4.0.15) report finding an issue with VOIP (Asterisk)
traffic. See <ulink url="FAQ.htm#faq77">Shorewall FAQ 77</ulink> for
details.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="V3.4.0">
<title>Versions &gt;= 3.4.0-Beta1</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall supports the notion of "default actions". A default
action defines a set of rules that are applied before a policy is
enforced. Default actions accomplish two goals:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>Relieve log congestion. Default actions typically include
rules to silently drop or reject traffic that would otherwise be
logged when the policy is enforced.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Insure correct operation. Default actions can also avoid
common pitfalls like dropping connection requests on TCP port 113.
If these connections are dropped (rather than rejected) then you
may encounter problems connecting to Internet services that
utilize the AUTH protocol of client authentication.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>In prior Shorewall versions, default actions (action.Drop and
action.Reject) were defined for DROP and REJECT policies in
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std</filename>. These could be
overridden in <filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename>.</para>
<para>This approach has two drawbacks:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>All DROP policies must use the same default action and all
REJECT policies must use the same default action.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Now that we have <ulink
url="Modularization.html">modularized action processing</ulink>,
we need a way to define default rules for a policy that does not
involve actions.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>If you have not overridden the defaults using entries in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename> then you need make no
changes to migrate to Shorewall version 3.4. If you have overridden
either of these entries, then please read on.</para>
<para>The change in version 3.4 is two-fold:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Four new options have been added to the
<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename> file that allow
specifying the default action for DROP, REJECT, ACCEPT and
QUEUE.</para>
<para>The options are DROP_DEFAULT, REJECT_DEFAULT, ACCEPT_DEFAULT
and QUEUE_DEFAULT.</para>
<para>DROP_DEFAULT describes the rules to be applied before a
connection request is dropped by a DROP policy; REJECT_DEFAULT
describes the rules to be applied if a connection request is
rejected by a REJECT policy. The other two are similar for ACCEPT
and QUEUE policies. The value assigned to these may be:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>The name of an action.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The name of a macro.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>'None' or 'none'</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>The default values are:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>DROP_DEFAULT="Drop"</member>
<member>REJECT_DEFAULT="Reject"</member>
<member>ACCEPT_DEFAULT=none</member>
<member>QUEUE_DEFAULT=none</member>
</simplelist>
<para>If USE_ACTIONS=Yes, then these values refer to action.Drop
and action.Reject respectively. If USE_ACTIONS=No, then these
values refer to macro.Drop and macro.Reject.</para>
<para>If you set the value of either option to "None" then no
default action will be used and the default action or macro (if
any) must be specified in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/policy</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The POLICY column in /etc/shorewall/policy has been
extended.</para>
<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/policy</filename>, when the
POLICY is DROP, REJECT, ACCEPT or QUEUE then the policy may be
followed by ":" and one of the following:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>The word "None" or "none". This causes any default
action defined in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename> to be
omitted for this policy.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The name of an action (requires that USE_ACTIONS=Yes in
<filename>shorewall.conf</filename>). That action will be
invoked before the policy is enforced.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The name of a macro. The rules in that macro will be
applied before the policy is enforced. This does not require
USE_ACTIONS=Yes.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting>#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOGLEVEL
loc net ACCEPT
net all DROP:MyDrop info
#
# THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
#
all all REJECT:MyReject info</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The 'Limit' action is now a builtin. If you have 'Limit' listed
in <filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename>, remove the entry. Also
remove the files <filename>/etc/shorewall/action.Limit</filename>
and/or <filename>/etc/shorewall/Limit</filename> if you have
them.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This issue only applies if you have entries in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename>.</para>
<para>Previously, Shorewall has not attempted to undo the changes it
has made to the firewall's routing as a result of entries in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> and
<filename>/etc/shorewall/routes</filename>. Beginning with this
release, Shorewall will attempt to undo these changes. This change can
present a migration issue in that the initial routing configuration
when this version of Shorewall is installed has probably been changed
by Shorewall already. Hence, when Shorewall restores the original
configuration, it will be installing a configuration that the
previously-installed version has already modified.</para>
<para>The steps to correcting this after you have installed version
3.4 or later of Shorewall are as follows:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para><command>shorewall[-lite] stop</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Remove the files
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall[-lite]/default_route</filename> and
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall[-lite]/undo_routing</filename> if
they exist.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Either restart networking or reboot.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><command>shorewall[-lite] start</command></para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>This issue only applies if you run Shorewall Lite.</para>
<para>The <filename>/etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf</filename> file
has been renamed
<filename>/etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall-lite.conf</filename>. When you
upgrade, your <filename>shorewall.conf</filename> file will be renamed
<filename>shorewall-lite.conf</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="V3.2.0">
<title>Version &gt;= 3.2.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If you are upgrading from version 2.4 or earlier, please read
the 3.0.0 upgrade considerations below.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A number of macros have been split into two. The macros affected
are:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>IMAP</member>
<member>LDAP</member>
<member>NNTP</member>
<member>POP3</member>
<member>SMTP</member>
</simplelist>
<para>Each of these macros now handles only traffic on the native
(plaintext) port. There is a corresponding macro with S added to the
end of the name for the SSL version of the same protocol. Thus each
macro results in the insertion of only one port per invocation. The
Web macro has not been split, but two new macros, HTTP and HTTPS have
been created. The Web macro is deprecated in favour of these new
macros, and may be removed from future Shorewall releases.</para>
<para>These changes have been made to ensure no unexpected ports are
opened due to the use of macros.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In previous Shorewall releases, DNAT and REDIRECT rules
supported a special syntax for exclusion of a subnet from the effect
of the rule.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<blockquote>
<para>Z2 is a subzone of Z1:</para>
<programlisting>DNAT Z1!Z2 loc:192.168.1.4 ...</programlisting>
</blockquote>
<para>That feature has never worked correctly when Z2 is a dynamic
zone. Furthermore, now that Shorewall supports exclusion lists, the
capability is redundant since the above rule can now be written in the
form:</para>
<programlisting>DNAT Z1:!&lt;list of exclusions&gt; loc:192.168.1.4 ...</programlisting>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 3.2.0, the special exclusion syntax
will no longer be supported.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Important if you use the QUEUE target.</para>
<para>In the /etc/shorewall/rules file and in actions, you may now
specify 'tcp:syn' in the PROTO column. 'tcp:syn' is equivalent to
'tcp' but also requires that the SYN flag is set and the RST, FIN and
ACK flags be off ("--syn" is added to the iptables rule).</para>
<para>As part of this change, Shorewall no longer adds the "--syn"
option to TCP rules that specify QUEUE as their target.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Extension Scripts may require change</para>
<para>In previous releases, extension scripts were executed during
<command>[re]start</command> by using the Bourne Shell "." operator.
In addition to executing commands during <command>[re]start</command>,
these scripts had to "save" the commands to be executed during
<command>shorewall restore</command>.</para>
<para>This clumsiness has been eliminated in Shorewall 3.2. In
Shorewall 3.2, extension scripts are copied in-line into the compiled
program and are executed in-line during <command>start</command>,
<command>restart</command> and <command>restore</command>. This
applies to all extension scripts except those associated with a chain
or action -- those extension scripts continue to be processed at
compile time.</para>
<para>This new approach has two implications for existing
scripts.</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>It is no longer necessary to save the commands; so functions
like 'save_command', 'run_and_save_command' and
'ensure_and_save_command' need no longer be called. The generated
program will contain functions with these names:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>save_command() - does nothing</member>
<member>run_and_save_command() - runs the passed
command</member>
<member>ensure_and_save_command() - runs the passed command and
stops the firewall if the command fails.</member>
</simplelist>
<para>These functions should provide for transparent migration of
scripts that use them until you can get around to eliminating
their use completely.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When the extension script is copied into the compiled
program, it is indented to line up with the surrounding code. If
you have 'awk' installed on your system, the Shorewall compiler
will correctly handle line continuation (last character on the
line = "\"). If you do not have awk, it will not be possible to
use line-continuation in your extension scripts. In no case is it
possible to continue a quoted string over multiple lines without
having additional whitespace inserted into the string.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Beginning with this release, the way in which packet marking in
the PREROUTING chain interacts with the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers has changed in two ways:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>Packets arriving on a tracked interface are now passed to
the PREROUTING marking chain so that they may be marked with a
mark other than the 'track' mark (the connection still retains the
'track' mark).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, you can still clear the mark on
packets in the PREROUTING chain (i.e., you can specify a mark
value of zero).</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Kernel version 2.6.16 introduces 'xtables', a new common packet
filtering and connection tracking facility that supports both IPv4 and
IPv6. Because a different set of kernel modules must be loaded for
xtables, Shorewall now includes two 'modules' files:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para><filename>/usr/share/shorewall/modules</filename> -- the
former <filename>/etc/shorewall/modules</filename></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>/usr/share/shorewall/xmodules -- a new file that support
xtables.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>If you wish to use the new file, then simply execute this
command:</para>
<para><command>cp -f /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules
/etc/shorewall/modules</command></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>(<emphasis role="bold">Versions &gt;= 3.2.3</emphasis>)
Previously, CLASSIFY tcrules were always processed out of the
POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with this release, they are processed out
of the POSTROUTING chain *except* when the SOURCE is
$FW[:&lt;address&gt;] in which case the rule is processed out of the
OUTPUT chain.</para>
<para>With correctly-coded rulesets, this change should have no
effect. Users having incorrectly-coded tcrules may need to change
them.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<blockquote>
<programlisting>#MARK/ SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE
#CLASSIFY PORTS(S) PORT(S)
1:110 $FW eth3 tcp - 22</programlisting>
</blockquote>
<para>While the user may have expected this rule to only affect
traffic from the firewall itself, the rule was really equivalent to
this one:</para>
<blockquote>
<programlisting>#MARK/ SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE
#CLASSIFY PORTS(S) PORT(S)
1:110 0.0.0.0/0 eth3 tcp - 22</programlisting>
</blockquote>
<para>So after this change, the second rule will be required rather
than the first if that is what was really wanted.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="V3.0.0">
<title>Version &gt;= 3.0.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The "monitor" command has been eliminated.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The "DISPLAY" and "COMMENTS" columns in the /etc/shorewall/zones
file have been removed and have been replaced by the former columns of
the /etc/shorewall/ipsec file. The latter file has been
removed.</para>
<para>Additionally the FW option in shorewall.conf has been deprecated
and is no longer set to 'fw' by default. New users are expected to
define the firewall zone in /etc/shorewall/zones.</para>
<para>Adhering to the principle of least astonishment, the old
<filename>/etc/shorewall/ipsec</filename> file will continue to be
supported. A new IPSECFILE variable in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
determines the name of the file that Shorewall looks in for IPSEC
information. If that variable is not set or is set to the empty value
then IPSECFILE=ipsec is assumed. So if you simply upgrade and don't do
something idiotic like replace your current shorewall.conf file with
the new one, your old configuration will continue to work. A dummy
'ipsec' file is included in the release so that your package manager
(e.g., rpm) won't remove your existing file.</para>
<para>The shorewall.conf file included in this release sets
IPSECFILE=zones so that new users are expected to use the <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-zones.html">new zone file
format</ulink>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The DROPINVALID option has been removed from shorewall.conf. The
behavior will be as if DROPINVALID=No had been specified. If you wish
to drop invalid state packets, use the dropInvalid built-in
action.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The 'nobogons' interface and hosts option as well as the
BOGON_LOG_LEVEL option have been eliminated.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem id="MAPOLDACTIONS">
<para>Most of the standard actions have been replaced by parameterized
macros (see below). So for example, the action.AllowSMTP and
action.DropSMTP have been removed an a parameterized macro macro.SMTP
has been added to replace them.</para>
<para>In order that current users don't have to immediately update
their rules and user-defined actions, Shorewall can substitute an
invocation of the a new macro for an existing invocation of one of the
old actions. So if your rules file calls AllowSMTP, Shorewall will
replace that call with SMTP(ACCEPT). Because this substitution is
expensive, it is conditional based on the setting of MAPOLDACTIONS in
shorewall.conf. If this option is set to YES or if it is not set (such
as if you are using your old shorewall.conf file) then Shorewall will
perform the substitution. Once you have converted to use the new
macros, you can set MAPOLDACTIONS=No and invocations of those actions
will go much quicker during 'shorewall [re]start'.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The STATEDIR variable in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf has been
removed. STATEDIR is now fixed at /var/lib/shorewall. If you have
previously set STATEDIR to another directory, please copy the files
from that directory to /var/lib/shorewall/ before [re]starting
Shorewall after the upgrade to this version.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The "shorewall status" command now just gives the status of
Shorewall (started or not-started). The previous status command has
been renamed "dump". The command also shows the state relative to the
state diagram at <ulink
url="https://shorewall.org/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">http://shorewall.org/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm</ulink>.
In addition to the state, the time and date at which that state was
entered is shown.</para>
<para>Note that at least one "shorewall [re]start" must be issued
after upgrading to this release before "shorewall status" will show
anything but "Unknown" for the state.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The "shorewall forget" command now removes the dynamic blacklist
save file (/var/lib/shorewall/save).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In previous versions of Shorewall, the rules generated by
entries in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tunnels</filename> preceded those
rules generated by entries in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>. Beginning with this
release, the rules generated by entries in the tunnels file will
appear *AFTER* the rules generated by the rules file. This may cause
you problems if you have REJECT, DENY or CONTINUE rules in your rules
file that would cause the tunnel transport packets to not reach the
rules that ACCEPT them. See <ulink
url="https://shorewall.org/VPNBasics.html">https://shorewall.org/VPNBasics.html</ulink>
for information on the rules generated by entries in the tunnels
file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The NEWNOTSYN and LOGNEWNOTSYN options in shorewall.conf have
been removed as have the 'newnotsyn' options in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename> and
<filename>/etc/shorewall/hosts</filename>.</para>
<para>TCP new-not-syn packets may be blocked using the 'dropNotSyn' or
'rejNotSyn' built-in actions.</para>
<para>Example: Reject all new-not-syn packets from the net and log
them at the 'info' level.</para>
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO
SECTION NEW
rejNotSyn:info net all tcp</programlisting>
<para>Note that the rule is added at the front of the NEW section of
the rules file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A new TC_SCRIPT option replaces TC_ENABLED in shorewall.conf. If
the option is not set then the internal shaper (tc4shorewall by Arne
Bernin) is used. Otherwise, the script named in the variable is
used.</para>
<para>Users who currently use an
<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcstart</filename> file and wish to continue
to do so should set TC_SCRIPT=/etc/shorewall/tcstart in
shorewall.conf.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="V2.4.0">
<title>Version &gt;= 2.4.0</title>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall now enforces the restriction that mark values used in
<filename> /etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> are less than 256. If you
are using mark values &gt;= 256, you must change your configuration
before you upgrade.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The value "ipp2p" is no longer accepted in the PROTO column of
the <filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename> file. This support has
never worked as intended and cannot be made to work in a consistent
way. A "Howto" article on filtering P2P with Shorewall and ipp2p will
be forthcoming.</para>
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<para>LEAF/Bering packages for 2.4.0 and later releases are not
available from shorewall.net. See the <ulink
url="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">LEAF site</ulink> for those
packages.</para>
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</section>
</article>