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<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>shorewall6.conf</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>shorewall6.conf</refname>
<refpurpose>Shorewall6 global configuration file</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>/etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf</command>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1>
<title>Description</title>
<para>This file sets options that apply to Shorewall6 as a whole.</para>
<para>The file consists of Shell comments (lines beginning with '#'),
blank lines and assignment statements
(<emphasis>variable</emphasis>=<emphasis>value</emphasis>).</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<para>Many options have as their value a <emphasis>log-level</emphasis>.
Log levels are a method of describing to syslog (8) the importance of a
message and a number of parameters in this file have log levels as their
value.</para>
<para>These levels are defined by syslog and are used to determine the
destination of the messages through entries in /etc/syslog.conf (5). The
syslog documentation refers to these as "priorities"; Netfilter calls them
"levels" and Shorewall6 also uses that term.</para>
<para>Valid levels are:</para>
<programlisting> 7 debug
6 info
5 notice
4 warning
3 err
2 crit
1 alert
0 emerg</programlisting>
<para>For most Shorewall6 logging, a level of 6 (info) is appropriate.
Shorewall6 log messages are generated by NetFilter and are logged using
facility 'kern' and the level that you specifify. If you are unsure of the
level to choose, 6 (info) is a safe bet. You may specify levels by name or
by number.</para>
<para>If you have built your kernel with NFLOG target support, you may
also specify a log level of NFLOG (must be all caps). Rather than log its
messages to syslogd, Shorewall6 will direct netfilter to log the messages
via the NFLOG target which will send them to a process called 'ulogd'.
ulogd is available with most Linux distributions (although it probably
isn't installed by default). Ulogd is also available from <ulink
url="http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html">http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html</ulink>
and can be configured to log all Shorewall6 message to their own log
file</para>
<para>The following options may be set in shorewall6.conf.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">ACCEPT_DEFAULT=</emphasis>{<emphasis>action</emphasis>|<emphasis>macro</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">DROP_DEFAULT=</emphasis>{<emphasis>action</emphasis>|<emphasis>macro</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">REJECT_DEFAULT=</emphasis>{<emphasis>action</emphasis>|<emphasis>macro</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">QUEUE_DEFAULT=</emphasis>{<emphasis>action</emphasis>|<emphasis>macro</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">NFQUEUE_DEFAULT=</emphasis>{<emphasis>action</emphasis>|<emphasis>macro</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>To allow for default rules to be applied when USE_ACTIONS=No,
the DROP_DEFAULT, REJECT_DEFAULT, ACCEPT_DEFAULT, QUEUE_DEFAULT and
NFQUEUE_DEFAULT options have been added.</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 three are similar for ACCEPT,
QUEUE and NFQUEUE policies.</para>
<para>The value applied to these may be:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>a) The name of an
<replaceable>action</replaceable>.</member>
<member>b) The name of a <replaceable>macro</replaceable>
(Shorewall6-shell only)</member>
<member>c) <emphasis role="bold">None</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">none</emphasis></member>
</simplelist>
<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>
<member>NFQUEUE_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 must be
specified in <ulink
url="shorewall6-policy.html">shorewall6-policy</ulink>(5).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">ADMINISABSENTMINDED=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>The value of this variable affects Shorewall6's stopped state.
When ADMINISABSENTMINDED=No, only traffic to/from those addresses
listed in <ulink
url="shorewall6-routestopped.html">shorewall6-routestopped</ulink>(5)
is accepted when Shorewall6 is stopped. When
ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, in addition to traffic to/from addresses in
<ulink
url="shorewall6-routestopped.html">shorewall6-routestopped</ulink>(5),
connections that were active when Shorewall6 stopped continue to
work and all new connections from the firewall system itself are
allowed. If this variable is not set or is given the empty value
then ADMINISABSENTMINDED=No is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">AUTO_COMMENT=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If set, if there is not a current comment when a macro is
invoked, the behavior is as if the first line of the macro file was
"COMMENT &lt;macro name&gt;". The AUTO_COMMENT option has a default
value of 'Yes'.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">AUTOMAKE=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If set, the behavior of the <command>start</command> and
<command>restart</command> commands is change; if no files in
<filename><filename
class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename></filename> have been
changed since the last successful <command>start</command> or
<command>restart</command> command, then the compilation step is
skipped and the compiled script that executed the last
<command>start</command> or <command>restart</command> command is
used. The default is AUTOMAKE=No.</para>
<para>The setting of the AUTOMAKE option is ignored if the
<command>start</command> or <command>restart</command> command
includes a directory name (e.g.,<command> shorewall6 restart
/etc/shorewall.new</command>).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">DROP</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">REJECT</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter determines the disposition of packets from
blacklisted hosts. It may have the value DROP if the packets are to
be dropped or REJECT if the packets are to be replied with an ICMP
port unreachable reply or a TCP RST (tcp only). If you do not assign
a value or if you assign an empty value then DROP is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL=</emphasis>[<emphasis>log-level</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter determines if packets from blacklisted hosts
are logged and it determines the syslog level that they are to be
logged at. Its value is a syslog level (Example:
BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL=debug). If you do not assign a value or if you
assign an empty value then packets from blacklisted hosts are not
logged.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">BLACKLISTNEWONLY=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>When set to <emphasis role="bold">Yes</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">yes</emphasis>, blacklists are only consulted for new
connections. When set to <emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis> or
<emphasis role="bold">no</emphasis>, blacklists are consulted for
every packet (will slow down your firewall noticably if you have
large blacklists). If the BLACKLISTNEWONLY option is not set or is
set to the empty value then BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No is assumed.</para>
<note>
<para>BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No is incompatible with
FASTACCEPT=Yes.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">CLAMPMSS=[</emphasis><emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">No</emphasis>|<emphasis>value</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter enables the TCP Clamp MSS to PMTU feature of
Netfilter and is usually required when your internet connection is
through PPPoE or PPTP. If set to <emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">yes</emphasis>,
the feature is enabled. If left blank or set to <emphasis
role="bold">No</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">no</emphasis>,
the feature is not enabled.</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Important</emphasis>: This option
requires CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_TCPMSS in your kernel.</para>
<para>You may also set CLAMPMSS to a numeric
<emphasis>value</emphasis> (e.g., CLAMPMSS=1400). This will set the
MSS field in TCP SYN packets going through the firewall to the
<emphasis>value</emphasis> that you specify.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">CLEAR_TC=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If this option is set to <emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>
then Shorewall6 won't clear the current traffic control rules during
[re]start. This setting is intended for use by people that prefer to
configure traffic shaping when the network interfaces come up rather
than when the firewall is started. If that is what you want to do,
set TC_ENABLED=Yes and CLEAR_TC=No and do not supply an
/etc/shorewall6/tcstart file. That way, your traffic shaping rules
can still use the “fwmark” classifier based on packet marking
defined in <ulink
url="shorewall6-tcrules.html">shorewall6-tcrules</ulink>(5). If not
specified, CLEAR_TC=No is assumed.</para>
<warning>
<para>If you also run Shorewall and if you have
TC_ENABLED=Internal in your <ulink
url="../manpages/shorewall.conf.html">shorewall-conf</ulink>(5),
then you will want CLEAR_TC=No in this file.</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">CONFIG_PATH</emphasis>=[<emphasis>directory</emphasis>[:<emphasis>directory</emphasis>]...]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies where configuration files other than shorewall6.conf
may be found. CONFIG_PATH is specifies as a list of directory names
separated by colons (":"). When looking for a configuration file
other than shorewall6.conf:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If the command is "try" or a "&lt;configuration
directory&gt;" was specified in the command (e.g.,
<command>shorewall6 check ./gateway</command>) then the
directory given in the command is searched first.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Next, each directory in the CONFIG_PATH setting is
searched in sequence.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<blockquote>
<para>If CONFIG_PATH is not given or if it is set to the empty
value then the contents of /usr/share/shorewall6/configpath are
used. As released from shorewall.net, that file sets the
CONFIG_PATH to
/etc/shorewall6:/usr/share/shorewall6:/usr/share/shorewall but
your particular distribution may set it differently. See the
output of shorewall6 show config for the default on your
system.</para>
<para>Note that the setting in /usr/share/shorewall6/configpath is
always used to locate shorewall6.conf.</para>
</blockquote>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">DELETE_THEN_ADD=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>If set to Yes (the default value), entries in the
/etc/shorewall6/route_stopped files cause an 'ip rule del' command
to be generated in addition to an 'ip rule add' command. Setting
this option to No, causes the 'ip rule del' command to be
omitted.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">DONT_LOAD=</emphasis>[<emphasis>module</emphasis>[,<emphasis>module</emphasis>]...]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Causes Shorewall6 to not load the listed kernel
modules.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">EXPAND_POLICIES=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>Normally, when the SOURCE or DEST columns in
shorewall6-policy(5) contains 'all', a single policy chain is
created and the policy is enforced in that chain. For example, if
the policy entry is<programlisting>#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG
# LEVEL
net all DROP info</programlisting>then the chain name is 'net2all'
which is also the chain named in Shorewall6 log messages generated
as a result of the policy. If EXPAND_POLICIES=Yes, then Shorewall6
will create a separate chain for each pair of zones covered by the
policy. This makes the resulting log messages easier to interpret
since the chain in the messages will have a name of the form 'a2b'
where 'a' is the SOURCE zone and 'b' is the DEST zone.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">EXPORTPARAMS=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>It is quite difficult to code a 'params' file that assigns
other than constant values such that it works correctly with
Shorewall6 Lite. The EXPORTPARAMS option works around this problem.
When EXPORTPARAMS=No, the 'params' file is not copied to the
compiler output.</para>
<para>With EXPORTPARAMS=No, if you need to set environmental
variables on the firewall system for use by your extension scripts,
then do so in the init extension script.</para>
<para>The default is EXPORTPARAMS=Yes</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">FASTACCEPT=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>Normally, Shorewall6 defers accepting ESTABLISHED/RELATED
packets until these packets reach the chain in which the original
connection was accepted. So for packets going from the 'loc' zone to
the 'net' zone, ESTABLISHED/RELATED packets are ACCEPTED in the
'loc2net' chain.</para>
<para>If you set FASTACCEPT=Yes, then ESTABLISHED/RELEATED packets
are accepted early in the INPUT, FORWARD and OUTPUT chains. If you
set FASTACCEPT=Yes then you may not include rules in the ESTABLISHED
or RELATED sections of <ulink
url="shorewall6-rules.html">shorewall6-rules</ulink>(5).</para>
<note>
<para>FASTACCEPT=Yes is incompatible with
BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No.</para>
</note>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>You may set HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in to effectively divide the
packet mark and connection mark into two mark fields.</para>
<para>The width of the fields are determined by the setting of the
WIDE_TC_MARKS option.</para>
<para>When WIDE_TC_MARKS=No (the default):</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>The MARK field in the providers file must have a value
that is less than 65536 and that is a multiple of 256 (using hex
representation, the values are 0x0100-0xFF00 with the low-order
8 bits being zero).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You may only set those mark values in the PREROUTING
chain.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Marks used for traffic shaping must still be in the range
of 1-255 and may still not be set in the PREROUTING
chain.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>When WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes:</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
<para>The MARK field in the providers file must have a value
that is a multiple of 65536 (using hex representation, the
values are 0x010000-0xFF0000 with the low-order 16 bits being
zero).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>You may only set those mark values in the PREROUTING
chain.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Marks used for traffic shaping must be in the range of
1-16383 and may still not be set in the PREROUTING chain.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
<para>Regardless of the setting of WIDE_TC_MARKS, when you SAVE or
RESTORE in tcrules, only the TC mark value is saved or restored.
Shorewall handles saving and restoring the routing (provider)
marks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>When this option is set to <emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>, it causes subzones to be treated
differently with respect to policies.</para>
<para>Subzones are defined by following their name with ":" and a
list of parent zones (in <ulink
url="shorewall6-zones.html">shorewall6-zones</ulink>(5)). Normally,
you want to have a set of special rules for the subzone and if a
connection doesn't match any of those subzone-specific rules then
you want the parent zone rules and policies to be applied; see
<ulink url="shorewall6-nesting.html">shorewall6-nesting</ulink>(5).
With IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, that happens automatically.</para>
<para>If IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=No or if IMPLICIT_CONTINUE is not set,
then subzones are not subject to this special treatment. With
IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, an implicit CONTINUE policy may be overridden
by including an explicit policy (one that does not specify "all" in
either the SOURCE or the DEST columns).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">IP</emphasis>=[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If specified, gives the pathname of the 'ip' executable. If
not specified, 'ip' is assumed and the utility will be located using
the current PATH setting.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">IP_FORWARDING=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">On</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">Off</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">Keep</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter determines whether Shorewall6 enables or
disables IPV4 Packet Forwarding (/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward).
Possible values are:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">On</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">on</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>packet forwarding will be enabled.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">Off</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">off</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>packet forwarding will be disabled.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">Keep</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">keep</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall6 will neither enable nor disable packet
forwarding</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<blockquote>
<para>If this variable is not set or is given an empty value
(IP_FORWARD="") then IP_FORWARD=On is assumed.</para>
</blockquote>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">IP6TABLES=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter names the ip6tables executable to be used by
Shorewall6. If not specified or if specified as a null value, then
the ip6tables executable located using the PATH option is
used.</para>
<para>Regardless of how the ip6tables utility is located (specified
via IP6TABLES= or located via PATH), Shorewall6 uses the
ip6tables-restore and ip6tables-save utilities from that same
directory.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">IPSET</emphasis>=[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If specified, gives the pathname of the 'ipset' executable. If
not specified, 'ipset' is assumed and the utility will be located
using the current PATH setting.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">KEEP_RT_TABLES=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>When set to <option>Yes</option>, this option prevents scripts
generated by Shorewall6 from altering the /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
database when there are entries in
<filename>/etc/shorewall6/providers</filename>. If you set this
option to <option>Yes</option> while Shorewall6 (Shorewall6-lite) is
running, you should remove the file
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall6/rt_tables</filename>
(<filename>/var/lib/shorewall6-lite/rt_tables</filename>) before
your next <command>stop</command>, <command>refresh</command>,
<command>restore</command> on <command>restart</command>
command.</para>
<para>The default is KEEP_RT_TABLES=No.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">LOG_VERBOSITY=</emphasis>[<emphasis>number</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This option controls the amount of information logged to the
file specified in the STARTUP_LOG option.</para>
<para>Values are:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>-1 - Logging is disabled</member>
<member>0 - Silent. Only error messages are logged.</member>
<member>1 - Major progress messages logged.</member>
<member>2 - All progress messages logged</member>
</simplelist>
<para>If not specified, then -1 is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">LOGALLNEW=</emphasis>[<emphasis>log-level</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This option is intended for use as a debugging aid. When set
to a log level, this option causes Shorewall6 to generate a logging
rule as the first rule in each builtin chain.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The table name is used as the chain name in the log
prefix.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The chain name is used as the target in the log
prefix.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para></para>
<blockquote>
<para>For example, using the default LOGFORMAT, the log prefix for
logging from the nat table's PREROUTING chain is:</para>
<programlisting> Shorewall:nat:PREROUTING
</programlisting>
<important>
<para>To help insure that all packets in the NEW state are
logged, rate limiting (LOGBURST and LOGRATE) should be disabled
when using LOGALLNEW. Use LOGALLNEW at your own risk; it may
cause high CPU and disk utilization and you may not be able to
control your firewall after you enable this option.</para>
</important>
<para></para>
<caution>
<para>Do not use this option if the resulting log messages will
be sent to another system.</para>
</caution>
</blockquote>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">LOGFILE=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter tells the /sbin/shorewall6 program where to
look for Shorewall6 messages when processing the <emphasis
role="bold">dump</emphasis>, <emphasis
role="bold">logwatch</emphasis>, <emphasis role="bold">show
log</emphasis>, and <emphasis role="bold">hits</emphasis> commands.
If not assigned or if assigned an empty value, /var/log/messages is
assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">LOGFORMAT=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis><emphasis>formattemplate</emphasis><emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>The value of this variable generate the --log-prefix setting
for Shorewall6 logging rules. It contains a “printf” formatting
template which accepts three arguments (the chain name, logging rule
number (optional) and the disposition). To use LOGFORMAT with
fireparse, set it as:</para>
<programlisting> LOGFORMAT="fp=%s:%d a=%s "</programlisting>
<para>If the LOGFORMAT value contains the substring “%d” then the
logging rule number is calculated and formatted in that position; if
that substring is not included then the rule number is not included.
If not supplied or supplied as empty (LOGFORMAT="") then
“Shorewall6:%s:%s:” is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">LOGBURST=</emphasis>[<emphasis>burst</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">LOGRATE=</emphasis>[<emphasis>rate</emphasis>/{<emphasis
role="bold">minute</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">second</emphasis>}]</term>
<listitem>
<para>These parameters set the match rate and initial burst size for
logged packets. Please see ip6tables(8) for a description of the
behavior of these parameters (the ip6tables option --limit is set by
LOGRATE and --limit-burst is set by LOGBURST). If both parameters
are set empty, no rate-limiting will occur.</para>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting> LOGRATE=10/minute
LOGBURST=5</programlisting>
<para>For each logging rule, the first time the rule is reached, the
packet will be logged; in fact, since the burst is 5, the first five
packets will be logged. After this, it will be 6 seconds (1 minute
divided by the rate of 10) before a message will be logged from the
rule, regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 6 seconds
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts will be
regained; if no packets hit the rule for 30 seconds, the burst will
be fully recharged; back where we started.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">LOGTAGONLY=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Using the default LOGFORMAT, chain names may not exceed 11
characters or truncation of the log prefix may occur. Longer chain
names may be used with log tags if you set LOGTAGONLY=Yes. With
LOGTAGONLY=Yes, if a log tag is specified then the tag is included
in the log prefix in place of the chain name.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">MACLIST_DISPOSITION=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">ACCEPT</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">DROP</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">REJECT</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the disposition of connections requests that fail
MAC Verification and must have the value ACCEPT (accept the
connection request anyway), REJECT (reject the connection request)
or DROP (ignore the connection request). If not set or if set to the
empty value (e.g., MACLIST_DISPOSITION="") then
MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=</emphasis>[<emphasis>log-level</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the syslog level for logging connection requests
that fail MAC Verification. The value must be a valid syslogd log
level. If you don't want to log these connection requests, set to
the empty value (e.g., MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL="").</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">MACLIST_TABLE=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">filter</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">mangle</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Normally, MAC verification occurs in the filter table (INPUT
and FORWARD) chains. When forwarding a packet from an interface with
MAC verification to a bridge interface, that doesn't work.</para>
<para>This problem can be worked around by setting
MACLIST_TABLE=mangle which will cause Mac verification to occur out
of the PREROUTING chain. Because REJECT isn't available in that
environment, you may not specify MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT with
MACLIST_TABLE=mangle.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If your kernel has a FORWARD chain in the mangle table, you
may set MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes to cause the marking specified in
the tcrules file to occur in that chain rather than in the
PREROUTING chain. This permits you to mark inbound traffic based on
its destination address when DNAT is in use. To determine if your
kernel has a FORWARD chain in the mangle table, use the <emphasis
role="bold">/sbin/shorewall6 show mangle</emphasis> command; if a
FORWARD chain is displayed then your kernel will support this
option. If this option is not specified or if it is given the empty
value (e.g., MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN="") then MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=No
is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">MODULE_SUFFIX=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis><emphasis>extension</emphasis> ...<emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>The value of this option determines the possible file
extensions of kernel modules. The default value is "o gz ko
o.gz".</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">MODULESDIR=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">:</emphasis><emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]...]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter specifies the directory/directories where your
kernel netfilter modules may be found. If you leave the variable
empty, Shorewall6 will supply "/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter:/lib/modules/`uname
-r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter".</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">MUTEX_TIMEOUT=</emphasis>[<emphasis>seconds</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>The value of this variable determines the number of seconds
that programs will wait for exclusive access to the Shorewall6 lock
file. After the number of seconds corresponding to the value of this
variable, programs will assume that the last program to hold the
lock died without releasing the lock.</para>
<para>If not set or set to the empty value, a value of 60 (60
seconds) is assumed.</para>
<para>An appropriate value for this parameter would be twice the
length of time that it takes your firewall system to process a
<emphasis role="bold">shorewall6 restart</emphasis> command.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">OPTIMIZE=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">0</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">1</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Traditionally, Shorewall6 has created rules for <ulink
url="../ScalabilityAndPerformance.html">the complete matrix of host
groups defined by the zones, interfaces and hosts files</ulink>. Any
traffic that didn't correspond to an element of that matrix was
rejected in one of the built-in chains. When the matrix is sparse,
this results in lots of largely useless rules.</para>
<para>These extra rules can be eliminated by setting
OPTIMIZE=1.</para>
<para>The OPTIMIZE setting also controls the suppression of
redundant wildcard rules (those specifying "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST column). A wildcard rule is considered to be redundant when it
has the same ACTION and Log Level as the applicable policy.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">PATH=</emphasis><emphasis>pathname</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">:</emphasis><emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]...</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the order in which Shorewall6 searches directories
for executable files.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">RCP_COMMAND="</emphasis><replaceable>command</replaceable><emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">RSH_COMMAND="</emphasis><replaceable>command</replaceable><emphasis
role="bold">"</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Eariler generations of Shorewall6 Lite required that remote
root login via ssh be enabled in order to use the
<command>load</command> and <command>reload</command> commands.
Beginning with release 3.9.5, you may define an alternative means
for accessing the remote firewall system. In that release, two new
options were added to shorewall6.conf:<simplelist>
<member>RSH_COMMAND</member>
<member>RCP_COMMAND</member>
</simplelist>The default values for these are as
follows:<simplelist>
<member>RSH_COMMAND: ssh ${root}@${system} ${command}</member>
<member>RCP_COMMAND: scp ${files}
${root}@${system}:${destination}</member>
</simplelist>Shell variables that will be set when the commands
are envoked are as follows:<simplelist>
<member><replaceable>root</replaceable> - root user. Normally
<option>root</option> but may be overridden using the '-r'
option.</member>
<member><replaceable>system</replaceable> - The name/IP address
of the remote firewall system.</member>
<member><replaceable>command</replaceable> - For RSH_COMMAND,
the command to be executed on the firewall system.</member>
<member><replaceable>files</replaceable> - For RCP_COMMAND, a
space-separated list of files to be copied to the remote
firewall system.</member>
<member><replaceable>destination</replaceable> - The directory
on the remote system that the files are to be copied
into.</member>
</simplelist></para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">RESTOREFILE=</emphasis><emphasis>filename</emphasis></term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the simple name of a file in /var/lib/shorewall6 to
be used as the default restore script in the <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall6 save</emphasis>, <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall6 restore</emphasis>, <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall6 forget </emphasis>and <emphasis
role="bold">shorewall6 -f start</emphasis> commands.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">SAVE_IPSETS=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>If SAVE_IPSETS=Yes, then the current contents of your ipsets
will be saved by the <emphasis role="bold">shorewall6
save</emphasis> command. Regardless of the setting of SAVE_IPSETS,
if saved ipset contents are available then they will be restored by
<emphasis role="bold">shorewall6 restore</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">SHOREWALL_SHELL=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This option is used to specify the shell program to be used to
interpret the compiled script. If not specified or specified as a
null value, /bin/sh is assumed. Using a light-weight shell such as
ash or dash can significantly improve performance.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">SMURF_LOG_LEVEL=</emphasis>[<emphasis>log-level</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Specifies the logging level for smurf packets (see the
nosmurfs option in <ulink
url="shorewall6-interfaces.html">shorewall6-interfaces</ulink>(5)).
If set to the empty value ( SMURF_LOG_LEVEL="" ) then smurfs are not
logged.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">STARTUP_ENABLED=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines if Shorewall6 is allowed to start. As released from
shorewall.net, this option is set to <emphasis
role="bold">No</emphasis>. When set to <emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">yes</emphasis>,
Shorewall6 may be started. Used as a guard against Shorewall6 being
accidentally started before it has been configured.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">STARTUP_LOG=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If specified, determines where Shorewall6 will log the details
of each <emphasis role="bold">start</emphasis>, <emphasis
role="bold">restart</emphasis> and <emphasis
role="bold">refresh</emphasis> command. Logging verbosity is
determined by the setting of LOG_VERBOSITY above.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">SUBSYSLOCK=</emphasis>[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>This parameter should be set to the name of a file that the
firewall should create if it starts successfully and remove when it
stops. Creating and removing this file allows Shorewall6 to work
with your distribution's initscripts. For RedHat, this should be set
to /var/lock/subsys/shorewall6. For Debian, the value is
/var/lock/shorewall6 and in LEAF it is /var/run/shorwall.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">TC</emphasis>=[<emphasis>pathname</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If specified, gives the pathname of the 'tc' executable. If
not specified, 'tc' is assumed and the utility will be located using
the current PATH setting.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">TC_ENABLED=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">No</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">Internal</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>If you say <emphasis role="bold">Yes</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">yes</emphasis> here, Shorewall6 will use a script that
you supply to configure traffic shaping. The script must be named
'tcstart' and must be placed in a directory on your
CONFIG_PATH.</para>
<para>If you say <emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis> or <emphasis
role="bold">no</emphasis> then traffic shaping is not
enabled.</para>
<para>If you set TC_ENABLED=Internal or internal or leave the option
empty then Shorewall6 will use its builtin traffic shaper
(tc4shorewall6 written by Arne Bernin.</para>
<warning>
<para>If you also run Shorewall and if you have
TC_ENABLED=Internal in your <ulink
url="../manpages/shorewall.conf.html">shorewall-conf</ulink>(5),
then you will want TC_ENABLED=No in this file.</para>
</warning>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">TC_EXPERT=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>Normally, Shorewall6 tries to protect users from themselves by
preventing PREROUTING and OUTPUT tcrules from being applied to
packets that have been marked by the 'track' option in <ulink
url="shorewall6-providers.html">shorewall6-providers</ulink>(5).</para>
<para>If you know what you are doing, you can set TC_EXPERT=Yes and
Shorewall6 will not include these cautionary checks.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION=</emphasis>[<emphasis
role="bold">ACCEPT</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">DROP</emphasis>|<emphasis
role="bold">REJECT</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the disposition of TCP packets that fail the checks
enabled by the <emphasis role="bold">tcpflags</emphasis> interface
option (see <ulink
url="shorewall6-interfaces.html">shorewall6-interfaces</ulink>(5))
and must have a value of ACCEPT (accept the packet), REJECT (send an
RST response) or DROP (ignore the packet). If not set or if set to
the empty value (e.g., TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION="") then
TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION=DROP is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL=</emphasis>[<emphasis>log-level</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Determines the syslog level for logging packets that fail the
checks enabled by the tcpflags interface option. The value must be a
valid syslogd log level. If you don't want to log these packets, set
to the empty value (e.g., TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL="").</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis
role="bold">VERBOSITY=</emphasis>[<emphasis>number</emphasis>]</term>
<listitem>
<para>Shorewall6 has traditionally been very noisy (produced lots of
output). You may set the default level of verbosity using the
VERBOSITY OPTION.</para>
<para>Values are:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>0 - Silent. You may make it more verbose using the -v
option</member>
<member>1 - Major progress messages displayed</member>
<member>2 - All progress messages displayed (pre Shorewall6-3.2.0
behavior)</member>
</simplelist>
<para>If not specified, then 2 is assumed.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><emphasis role="bold">WIDE_TC_MARKS=</emphasis>{<emphasis
role="bold">Yes</emphasis>|<emphasis role="bold">No</emphasis>}</term>
<listitem>
<para>When set to No (the default), traffic shaping marks are 8
bytes wide (possible values are 1-255). When WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes,
traffic shaping marks are 14 bytes wide (values 1-16383). The
setting of WIDE_TC_MARKS also has an effect on the HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS
option (see above).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>FILES</title>
<para>/etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<title>See ALSO</title>
<para>shorewall6(8), shorewall6-accounting(5), shorewall6-actions(5),
shorewall6-blacklist(5), shorewall6-hosts(5), shorewall6-interfaces(5),
shorewall6-ipsec(5), shorewall6-maclist(5), shorewall6-masq(5),
shorewall6-nat(5), shorewall6-netmap(5), shorewall6-params(5),
shorewall6-policy(5), shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-proxyarp(5),
shorewall6-route_rules(5), shorewall6-routestopped(5),
shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5),
shorewall6-tcrules(5), shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5),
shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>