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<h2>Introduction<br>
</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.netfilter.org">Netfilter</a> - the
packet filter facility built into the 2.4 and later Linux kernels.</li>
<li>ipchains - the packet filter facility built into the 2.2
Linux kernels. Also the name of the utility program used to configure
and control that facility. Netfilter can be used in ipchains
compatibility mode.<br>
</li>
<li>iptables - the utility program used to configure and
control Netfilter. The term 'iptables' is often used to refer to the
combination of iptables+Netfilter (with Netfilter not in ipchains
compatibility mode).<br>
</li>
</ul>
The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is
high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your
firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration
files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of
the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your
requirements. Shorewall can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a
multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux
system. Shorewall does not use Netfilter's ipchains compatibility mode
and can thus take advantage of Netfilter's connection state tracking
capabilities.
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">Version 2 of the GNU
General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software Foundation.<br>
<br>
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General
Public License for more details.<br>
<br>
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA</p>
<p><a href="copyright.htm">Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M.
Eastep</a></p>
<h2>This is the Shorewall 1.4 Web Site</h2>
The information on this site applies only to 1.4.x releases of
Shorewall. For older versions:<br>
<ul>
<li>The 1.3 site is <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/1.3"
target="_top">here.</a></li>
<li>The 1.2 site is <a href="http://shorewall.net/1.2/"
target="_top">here</a>.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Getting Started with Shorewall</h2>
New to Shorewall? Start by selecting the <a
href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guide</a> that most
closely match your environment and follow the step by step instructions.<br>
<h2>Looking for Information?</h2>
The <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm#Documentation">Documentation
Index</a> is a good place to start as is the Quick Search in the frame
above.
<h2>Running Shorewall on Mandrake with a two-interface setup?</h2>
If so, the documentation<b> </b>on this site will not apply directly
to
your setup. If you want to use the documentation that you find here,
you will want to consider uninstalling what you have and installing a
setup that matches the documentation on this site. See the <a
href="two-interface.htm">Two-interface QuickStart Guide</a> for
details.
<h2></h2>
<h2><b>News</b></h2>
<p><b>11/01/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.8 RC2</b><b> <img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 28px; height: 12px;"
src="file:///vfat/Shorewall-docs/images/new10.gif" alt="(New)" title=""></b><b>
</b></p>
Given the small number of new features and the relatively few lines of
code that were changed, there will be no Beta for 1.4.8.<br>
<p><b><a href="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target="_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<br>
</b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.7:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Tuomo Soini has supplied a correction to a problem that
occurs
using some versions of 'ash'. The symptom is that "shorewall start"
fails with:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; local: --limit: bad variable name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn't load match
`-j':/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
information.</li>
<li>Andres Zhoglo has supplied a correction that avoids trying
to use the multiport match iptables facility on ICMP rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example of rule that previously caused "shorewall start"
to fail:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp; $FW&nbsp;
icmp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,8,11,12<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if the following error message was issued,
Shorewall was left in an inconsistent state.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Unable to determine the routes through interface xxx<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Handling of the LOGUNCLEAN option in shorewall.conf has
been corrected.</li>
<li>In Shorewall 1.4.2, an optimization was added. This
optimization
involved creating a chain named "&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" for most zones
defined using the /etc/shorewall/hosts file. It has since been
discovered that in many cases these new chains contain redundant rules
and that the "optimization" turns out to be less than optimal. The
implementation has now been corrected.</li>
<li>When the MARK value in a tcrules entry is followed by ":F"
or
":P", the ":F" or ":P" was previously only applied to the first
Netfilter rule generated by the entry. It is now applied to all entries.</li>
<li>An incorrect comment concerning Debian's use of the
SYBSYSLOCK option has been removed from shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>Previously, neither the 'routefilter' interface option nor
the
ROUTE_FILTER parameter were working properly. This has been corrected
(thanks to Eric Bowles for his analysis and patch). The definition of
the ROUTE_FILTER option has changed however. Previously,
ROUTE_FILTER=Yes was documented as enabling route filtering on all
interfaces (which didn't work). Beginning with this release, setting
ROUTE_FILTER=Yes will enable route filtering of all interfaces brought
up while Shorewall is started. As a consequence, ROUTE_FILTER=Yes can
coexist with the use of the 'routefilter' option in the interfaces file.</li>
<li>If MAC verification was enabled on an interface with a /32
address and
a broadcast address then an error would occur during startup.</li>
</ol>
Migration Issues:<br>
<ol>
<li>The definition of the ROUTE_FILTER option in shorewall.conf
has changed as described in item 8) above.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A new QUEUE action has been introduced for rules. QUEUE
allows
you to pass connection requests to a user-space filter such as ftwall
(http://p2pwall.sourceforge.net). The ftwall program
allows for effective filtering of p2p applications such as Kazaa. For
example, to use ftwall to filter P2P clients in the 'loc' zone, you
would add the following rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
<br>
You would normally want to place those three rules BEFORE any ACCEPT
rules for loc-&gt;net udp or tcp.<br>
<br>
Note: When the protocol specified is TCP ("tcp", "TCP" or "6"),
Shorewall will only pass connection requests (SYN packets) to user
space. This is for compatibility with ftwall.</li>
<li>A
BLACKLISTNEWNONLY option has been added to shorewall.conf. When this
option is set to "Yes", the blacklists (dynamic and static) are only
consulted for new connection requests. When set to "No" (the default if
the variable is not set), the blacklists are consulted on every packet.<br>
<br>
Setting this option to "No" allows blacklisting to stop existing
connections from a newly blacklisted host but is more expensive in
terms of packet processing time. This is especially true if the
blacklists contain a large number of entries.</li>
<li>Chain names used in the /etc/shorewall/accounting file may
now begin with a digit ([0-9]) and may contain embedded dashes ("-").</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/26/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7a and 1.4.7b win brown paper
bag awards </b><b><img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 50px; height: 80px;"
src="images/j0233056.gif" align="middle" title="" alt="">Shorewall
1.4.7c released.</b> </p>
<ol>
<li>The saga with "&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" chains continues. The
1.4.7c script
produces a ruleset that should work for everyone even if it is not
quite optimal. My apologies for this ongoing mess.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/24/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7b</b><b> <img
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 28px; height: 12px;"
src="images/new10.gif" alt="(New)" title=""></b></p>
<p>This is a bugfx rollup of the 1.4.7a fixes plus:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The fix for problem 5 in 1.4.7a was wrong with the result
that
"&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" chains might contain too few rules. That wrong code
is corrected in this release.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/21/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7a</b></p>
<p>This is a bugfix rollup of the following problem corrections:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Tuomo Soini has supplied a correction to a problem that
occurs
using some versions of 'ash'. The symptom is that "shorewall start"
fails with:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; local: --limit: bad variable name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn't load match
`-j':/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
information.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Andres Zhoglo has supplied a correction that avoids trying
to use the multiport match iptables facility on ICMP rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example of rule that previously caused "shorewall start"
to fail:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp; $FW&nbsp;
icmp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,8,11,12<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if the following error message was issued,
Shorewall was left in an inconsistent state.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Unable to determine the routes through
interface xxx<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Handling of the LOGUNCLEAN option in shorewall.conf has
been corrected.</li>
<li>In Shorewall 1.4.2, an optimization was added. This
optimization
involved creating a chain named "&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" for most zones
defined using the /etc/shorewall/hosts file. It has since been
discovered that in many cases these new chains contain redundant rules
and that the "optimization" turns out to be less than optimal. The
implementation has now been corrected.</li>
<li>When the MARK value in a tcrules entry is followed by ":F"
or
":P", the ":F" or ":P" was previously only applied to the first
Netfilter rule generated by the entry. It is now applied to all entries.</li>
</ol>
<p><b><a href="News.htm">More News</a></b></p>
<b> </b>
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<p> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img
border="0" src="images/leaflogo.gif" width="49" height="36"
alt="(Leaf Logo)"> </a>Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak have a LEAF
(router/firewall/gateway on a floppy, CD or compact flash) distribution
called <i>Bering</i> that features Shorewall-1.4.2 and Kernel-2.4.20.
You can find their work at: <a
href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo">
http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a></p>
<b>Congratulations to Jacques and Eric on the recent release of
Bering 1.2!!! </b><br>
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align="left" alt="SourceForge Logo"
src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=22587&amp;type=3"> </a></b></h1>
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<font size="+2">Shorewall is free but if you try it and find it
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<p><font size="2">Updated 11/01/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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