shorewall_code/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
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Shorewall 4.1 Patch Release 2.
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R E L E A S E 4 . 1 H I G H L I G H T S
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1) Support is included for multiple internet providers through the same
ethernet interface.
2) Support for NFLOG has been added.
3) Enhanced operational logging
Problems corrected in Shorewall 4.1.2.
1) The iptables utility doesn't retry operations that fail due to
resource shortage. Beginning with this release, Shorewall reruns
iptables when such a failure occurs.
Other changes in Shorewall 4.1.2.
1) Shorewall 4.1.2 contains enhanced operational logging capabilities
through a set of related enhancements to Shorewall-common and
Shorewall-shell. The enhancements are not supported by
Shorewall-shell nor are they supported by Shorewall-lite except
when the script is compiled using Shorewall-perl.
a) The STARTUP_LOG option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf gives
the name of the Shorewall operational log. The log will be
created if it does not exist.
b) The LOG_VERBOSITY option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf gives
the verbosity at which logging will occur. It uses the same
value range as VERBOSITY:
-1 Do not log
0 Almost quiet
1 Only major steps
2 Verbose
c) An absolute VERBOSITY may be specified on the command line
using the -v option followed by -1,0,1 or 2.
Example:
shorewall -v2 check
d) The /etc/init.d/shorewall script supplied with the
shorewall.net packages sets '-v0' as the default. This may be
overridden with the OPTIONS setting in /etc/defaults/shorewall or
/etc/sysconfig/shorewall.
Logging occurs on both Shorewall-perl and the generated script when
the following commands are issued:
start
restart
refresh
Messages in the log are always timestamped.
New Features in Shorewall 4.1.
1) Shorewall 4.1 contains experimental support for multiple Internet
providers through a single ethernet interface. Configuring two
providers through a single interface differs from two providers
through two interfaces in several ways.
a) Only ethernet (or ethernet-like) interfaces can be used. For
inbound traffic, the MAC addresses of the gateway routers is used
to determine which provider a packet was received through. Note
that only routed traffic can be categorized using this technique.
b) You must specify the address on the interface that corresponds to
a particular provider in the INTERFACE column by following the
interface name with a colon (":") and the address.
c) Entries in /etc/shorewall/masq must be qualified by the provider
name (or number).
d) This feature requires Realm Match support in your kernel and
iptables. If you use a capabilities file, you need to regenerate
the file with Shorewall 4.0.6 or Shorewall-lite 4.0.6.
e) You must add route_rules entries for networks that are accessed
through a particular provider.
f) If you have additional IP addresses through either provider,
you must add route_rules to direct traffic FROM each of those
addresses through the appropriate provider.
Example:
Providers Blarg (1) and Avvanta (2) are both connected to
eth0. The firewall's IP address with Blarg is 206.124.146.176/24
(gateway 206.124.146.254) and the IP address from Avvanta is
130.252.144.8/24 (gateway 130.252.144.254). We have a second IP
address (206.124.146.177) from Blarg.
/etc/shorewall/providers:
#PROVIDER NUMBER MARK DUPLICATE INTERFACE GATEWAY
Blarg 1 1 main eth0:206.124.146.176 206.124.146.254 ...
Avvanta 2 2 main eth0:130.252.144.8 130.252.144.254 ...
/etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS
eth0(Blarg) 130.252.144.8 206.124.146.176
eth0(Avvanta) 206.124.146.176 130.252.144.8
eth0(Blarg) eth1 206.124.146.176
eth0(Avvanta) eth1 130.252.144.8
/etc/shorewall/route_rules:
#SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY
- 206.124.146.0/24 Blarg 1000
- 130.252.144.0/24 Avvanta 1000
206.124.146.177 - Blarg 26000
2) You may now include the name of a table (nat, mangle or filter) in
a 'shorewall refresh' command by following the name with a colon
(e.g., mangle:). This causes all non-builtin chains in the table to
be reloaded.
Example:
shorewall refresh nat:
3) When no chain name is given to the 'shorewall refresh' command, the
mangle table is refreshed along with the blacklist chain (if
any). This allows you to modify /etc/shorewall/tcrules and install
the changes using 'shorewall refresh'.
4) Support for the NFLOG log target has been added. NFLOG is a
successor to ULOG. In addition, both ULOG and NFLOG may be followed
by a list of up to three numbers in parentheses.
The first number specifies the netlink group (1-32). If omitted
(e.g., NFLOG(,0,10)) then a value of 1 is assumed.
The second number specifies the maximum number of bytes to copy. If
omitted, 0 (no limit) is assumed.
The third number specifies the number of log messages that should
be buffered in the kernel before they are sent to user space. The
default is 1.
Examples:
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf:
MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL=NFLOG(1,0,1)
/etc/shorewall/rules:
ACCEPT:NFLOG(1,0,1) vpn fw tcp ssh,time,631,8080
5) Shorewall-perl 4.1.0 implements an alternative syntax for macro
parameters and for the NFQUEUE queue number. Rather than following
the macro name (or NFQUEUE) with a slash ("/") and the parameter,
the parameter may be enclosed in parentheses.
Examples -- each pair shown below are equivalent:
DNS/ACCEPT DNS(ACCEPT)
NFQUEUE/3 NFQUEUE(3)
The old syntax is still be accepted but will cease to be documented
in some future Shorewall release.