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<h1 align="center"><!--mstheme--><font face="times new roman, Times New Roman, Times" color="#666666">Shorewall News Archive<!--mstheme--></font></h1>
<p><b>8/7/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.6</b></p>
<p>This is primarily a bug-fix rollup with a couple of new features:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The latest <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides </a>
including the <a href="shorewall_setup_guide.htm">Shorewall Setup Guide.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall will now DROP TCP packets that are not part of or
related to an existing connection and that are not SYN packets. These &quot;New
not SYN&quot; packets may be optionally logged by setting the LOGNEWNOTSYN option
in <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The processing of &quot;New not SYN&quot; packets may be extended by command in the
new <a href="shorewall_extension_scripts.htm">newnotsyn extension script</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>7/30/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5b Released</b></p>
<p>This interim release:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Causes the firewall script to remove the lock file if it is killed.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Once again allows lists in the second column of the
<a href="Documentation.htm#Hosts">/etc/shorewall/hosts</a> file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Includes the latest <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart
Guides</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>7/29/2002 - New Shorewall Setup Guide Available</b></p>
<p>The first draft of this guide is available at
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_setup_guide.htm">
http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_setup_guide.htm</a>. The guide is intended
for use by people who are setting up Shorewall to manage multiple public IP
addresses and by people who want to learn more about Shorewall than is
described in the single-address guides. Feedback on the new guide is welcome.</p>
<p><b>7/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5 Debian Package Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Martignoni reports that the packages are version 1.3.5a and are available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>7/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5a Released</b></p>
<p>This interim release restores correct handling of REDIRECT rules. </p>
<p><b>7/26/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5 Released</b></p>
<p>This will be the last Shorewall release for a while. I'm going to be
focusing on rewriting a lot of the documentation.</p>
<p><b>&nbsp;</b>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Empty and invalid source and destination qualifiers are now detected in
the rules file. It is a good idea to use the 'shorewall check' command before
you issue a 'shorewall restart' command be be sure that you don't have any
configuration problems that will prevent a successful restart.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Added <b>MERGE_HOSTS</b> variable in <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">
shorewall.conf</a> to provide saner behavior of the /etc/shorewall/hosts
file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The time that the counters were last reset is now displayed in the
heading of the 'status' and 'show' commands.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A <b>proxyarp </b>option has been added for entries in
<a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a>. This
option facilitates Proxy ARP sub-netting as described in the Proxy ARP
subnetting mini-HOWTO (<a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Proxy-ARP-Subnet/">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Proxy-ARP-Subnet/</a>).
Specifying the proxyarp option for an interface causes Shorewall to set
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/proxy_arp.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The Samples have been updated to reflect the new capabilities in this
release. <!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>7/16/2002 - New Mirror in Argentina</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Arturo &quot;Buanzo&quot; Busleiman, there is now a Shorewall mirror in
Argentina. Thanks Buanzo!!!</p>
<p><b>7/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.4 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A new <a href="Documentation.htm#Routestopped">
/etc/shorewall/routestopped</a> file has been added. This file is intended to
eventually replace the <b>routestopped</b> option in the
/etc/shorewall/interface and /etc/shorewall/hosts files. This new file makes
remote firewall administration easier by allowing any IP or subnet to be
enabled while Shorewall is stopped.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">An /etc/shorewall/stopped <a href="Documentation.htm#Scripts">extension
script</a> has been added. This script is invoked after Shorewall has
stopped.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A <b>DETECT_DNAT_ADDRS </b>option has been added to
<a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shoreall/shorewall.conf</a>. When this
option is selected, DNAT rules only apply when the destination address is the
external interface's primary IP address.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guide</a> has
been broken into three guides and has been almost entirely rewritten.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The Samples have been updated to reflect the new capabilities in this
release. <!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
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<p><b>7/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.3 Debian Package Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the packages are available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>7/6/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.3 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Entries in /etc/shorewall/interface that use the wildcard character (&quot;+&quot;)
now have the &quot;multi&quot; option assumed.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The 'rfc1918' chain in the mangle table has been renamed 'man1918' to
make log messages generated from that chain distinguishable from those
generated by the 'rfc1918' chain in the filter table.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Interface names appearing in the hosts file are now validated against the
interfaces file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The TARGET column in the rfc1918 file is now checked for correctness.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The chain structure in the nat table has been changed to reduce the
number of rules that a packet must traverse and to correct problems with
NAT_BEFORE_RULES=No<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;hits&quot; command has been enhanced.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>6/25/2002 - Samples Updated for 1.3.2</b></p>
<p>The comments in the sample configuration files have been updated to reflect
new features introduced in Shorewall 1.3.2.</p>
<p><b>6/25/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Debian Package Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the package is available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>6/19/2002 - Documentation Available in PDF Format</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Mike Martinez, the Shorewall Documentation is now available for
<a href="download.htm">download</a> in <a href="http://www.adobe.com">Adobe</a>
PDF format.</p>
<p><b>6/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.2 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A <a href="Documentation.htm#Starting">logwatch command</a> has been
added to /sbin/shorewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A <a href="blacklisting_support.htm">dynamic blacklist facility</a> has
been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for the <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">Netfilter multiport
match function</a> has been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The files <b>firewall, functions </b>and <b>version</b> have been moved
from /etc/shorewall to /var/lib/shorewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>6/6/2002 - Why CVS Web access is Password Protected</b></p>
<p>Last weekend, I installed the CVS Web package to provide brower-based access
to the Shorewall CVS repository. Since then, I have had several instances where
my server was almost unusable due to the high load generated by website copying
tools like HTTrack and WebStripper. These mindless tools:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Ignore robot.txt files.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Recursively copy everything that they find.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Should be classified as weapons rather than tools.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>These tools/weapons are particularly damaging when combined with CVS Web
because they doggedly follow every link in the cgi-generated HTML resulting in
1000s of executions of the cvsweb.cgi script. Yesterday, I spend several hours
implementing measures to block these tools but unfortunately, these measures
resulted in my server OOM-ing under even moderate load.</p>
<p>Until I have the time to understand the cause of the OOM (or until I buy
more RAM if that is what is required), CVS Web access will remain Password
Protected. </p>
<p><b>6/5/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Debian Package Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the package is available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>6/2/2002 - Samples Corrected</b></p>
<p>The 1.3.0 samples configurations had several serious problems that prevented
DNS and SSH from working properly. These problems have been corrected in the
<a href="/pub/shorewall/samples-1.3.1">1.3.1 samples.</a></p>
<p><b>6/1/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Released</b></p>
<p>Hot on the heels of 1.3.0, this release:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Corrects a serious problem with &quot;all <i>&lt;zone&gt;</i> CONTINUE&quot; policies.
This problem is present in all versions of Shorewall that support the
CONTINUE policy. These previous versions optimized away the &quot;all2<i>&lt;zone&gt;</i>&quot;
chain and replaced it with the &quot;all2all&quot; chain with the usual result that a
policy of REJECT was enforced rather than the intended CONTINUE policy.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Adds an <a href="Documentation.htm#rfc1918">/etc/shorewall/rfc1918</a>
file for defining the exact behavior of the<a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">
'norfc1918' interface option</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/29/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.0 Released</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1, Beta 2 and RC1, Shorewall 1.3.0
includes:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A 'filterping' interface option that allows ICMP echo-request (ping)
requests addressed to the firewall to be handled by entries in
/etc/shorewall/rules and /etc/shorewall/policy.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 RC1 Available</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1 and Beta 2, RC1 (Version 1.2.92)
incorporates the following:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for the /etc/shorewall/whitelist file has been withdrawn. If you
need whitelisting, see <a href="/1.3/whitelisting_under_shorewall.htm">these
instructions</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/19/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 Beta 2 Available</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1, this release which carries the
designation 1.2.91 adds:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The structure of the firewall is changed markedly. There is now an INPUT
and a FORWARD chain for each interface; this reduces the number of rules that
a packet must traverse, especially in complicated setups.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#Exclude">Sub-zones may now be excluded from
DNAT and REDIRECT rules.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The names of the columns in a number of the configuration files have been
changed to be more consistent and self-explanatory and the documentation has
been updated accordingly.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The sample configurations have been updated for 1.3.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/17/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 Beta 1 Available</b></p>
<p>Beta 1 carries the version designation 1.2.90 and implements the following
features:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Simplified rule syntax which makes the intent of each rule clearer and
hopefully makes Shorewall easier to learn.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Upward compatibility with 1.2 configuration files has been maintained so
that current users can migrate to the new syntax at their convenience.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><b><font color="#CC6666">WARNING:&nbsp; Compatibility with the old
parameterized sample configurations has NOT been maintained. Users still
running those configurations should migrate to the new sample configurations
before upgrading to 1.3 Beta 1.</font></b><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/4/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.13 is Available</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#Whitelist">White-listing</a> is supported.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#Policy">SYN-flood protection </a>is added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">IP addresses added under <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">ADD_IP_ALIASES
and ADD_SNAT_ALIASES</a> now inherit the VLSM and Broadcast Address of the
interface's primary IP address.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The order in which port forwarding DNAT and Static DNAT
<a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">can now be reversed</a> so that port
forwarding rules can override the contents of <a href="Documentation.htm#NAT">
/etc/shorewall/nat</a>. <!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/30/2002 - Shorewall Debian News</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that Shorewall 1.2.12 is now in both the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Testing Branch</a> and the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Branch</a>.</p>
<p><b>4/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.12 is Available</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The 'try' command works again<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">There is now a single RPM that also works with SuSE.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/17/2002 - Shorewall Debian News</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall 1.2.10 is in the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Testing Branch</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall 1.2.11 is in the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Branch</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>Thanks, Lorenzo!</p>
<p><b>4/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.11 RPM Available for SuSE</b></p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="mailto:s.mohr@familie-mohr.com">Stefan Mohr</a>, there is
now a Shorewall 1.2.11
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/shorewall-1.2-11.i686.suse73.rpm">
SuSE RPM</a> available. </p>
<p><b>4/13/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.11 Available </b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The 'try' command now accepts an optional timeout. If the timeout is
given in the command, the standard configuration will automatically be
restarted after the new configuration has been running for that length of
time. This prevents a remote admin from being locked out of the firewall in
the case where the new configuration starts but prevents access.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Kernel route filtering may now be enabled globally using the new
ROUTE_FILTER parameter in <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Individual IP source addresses and/or subnets may now be excluded from
masquerading/SNAT.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Simple &quot;Yes/No&quot; and &quot;On/Off&quot; values are now case-insensitive in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/13/2002 - Hamburg Mirror now has FTP </b></p>
<p>Stefan now has an FTP mirror at
<a target="_blank" href="ftp://germany.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall">
ftp://germany.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall</a>.&nbsp; Thanks Stefan!</p>
<p><b>4/12/2002 - New Mirror in Hamburg</b></p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="mailto:s.mohr@familie-mohr.com">Stefan Mohr</a>, there is
now a mirror of the Shorewall website at
<a target="_top" href="http://germany.shorewall.net">
http://germany.shorewall.net</a>. </p>
<p><b>4/10/2002 - Shorewall QuickStart Guide Version 1.1 Available</b></p>
<p><a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">Version 1.1 of the QuickStart Guide</a>
is now available. Thanks to those who have read version 1.0 and offered their
suggestions. Corrections have also been made to the sample scripts.</p>
<p><b>4/9/2002 - Shorewall QuickStart Guide Version 1.0 Available</b></p>
<p><a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">Version 1.0 of the QuickStart Guide</a>
is now available. This Guide and its accompanying sample configurations are
expected to provide a replacement for the recently withdrawn parameterized
samples. </p>
<p><b>4/8/2002 - Parameterized Samples Withdrawn </b></p>
<p>Although the <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.2.1/">parameterized
samples</a> have allowed people to get a firewall up and running quickly, they
have unfortunately set the wrong level of expectation among those who have used
them. I am therefore withdrawing support for the samples and I am recommending
that they not be used in new Shorewall installations.</p>
<p><b>4/2/2002 - Updated Log Parser</b></p>
<p><a href="mailto:JML@redwoodtech.com">John Lodge</a> has provided an updated
version of his
<a href="pub/shorewall/parsefw/">CGI-based log parser</a> with corrected date
handling. </p>
<p><b>3/30/2002 - Shorewall Website Search Improvements</b></p>
<p>The quick search on the home page now excludes the mailing list archives.
The <a href="htdig/search.html">Extended Search</a> allows excluding the
archives or restricting the search to just the archives. An archive search form
is also available on the <a href="mailing_list.htm">mailing list information
page</a>.</p>
<p><b>3/28/2002 - Debian Shorewall News (From Lorenzo Martignoni)</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The 1.2.10 Debian Package is available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall 1.2.9 is now in the
<a href="http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Distribution</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/25/2002 - Log Parser Available</b></p>
<p><a href="mailto:JML@redwoodtech.com">John Lodge</a> has provided a
<a href="pub/shorewall/parsefw/">CGI-based log parser</a> for Shorewall. Thanks
John.</p>
<p><b>3/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.10 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A &quot;shorewall try&quot; command has been added (syntax: shorewall try <i>
&lt;configuration directory&gt;</i>). This command attempts &quot;shorewall -c <i>
&lt;configuration directory&gt;</i> start&quot; and if that results in the firewall
being stopped due to an error, a &quot;shorewall start&quot; command is executed. The
'try' command allows you to create a new <a href="Documentation.htm#Configs">
configuration</a> and attempt to start it; if there is an error that leaves
your firewall in the stopped state, it will automatically be restarted using
the default configuration (in /etc/shorewall).<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A new variable ADD_SNAT_ALIASES has been added to
<a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>. If this
variable is set to &quot;Yes&quot;, Shorewall will automatically add IP addresses
listed in the third column of the <a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">
/etc/shorewall/masq</a> file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Copyright notices have been added to the documenation.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/11/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.9 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Filtering by <a href="Documentation.htm#MAC">MAC address</a> has been added.
MAC addresses may be used as the source address in:<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Filtering rules (<a href="Documentation.htm#Rules">/etc/shorewall/rules</a>)<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Traffic Control Classification Rules (<a href="traffic_shaping.htm#tcrules">/etc/shorewall/tcrules</a>)<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">TOS Rules (<a href="Documentation.htm#TOS">/etc/shorewall/tos</a>)<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Blacklist (<a href="Documentation.htm#Blacklist">/etc/shorewall/blacklist</a>)<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Several bugs have been fixed<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The 1.2.9 Debian Package is also available at <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/1/2002 - 1.2.8 Debian Package is Available</b></p>
<p>See <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/25/2002 - New Two-interface Sample</b></p>
<p>I've enhanced the two interface sample to allow access from the firewall to
servers in the local zone -
<a href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/LATEST.samples/two-interfaces.tgz">
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/LATEST.samples/two-interfaces.tgz</a></p>
<p><b>2/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.8 Released</b></p>
<p>Do to a serious problem with 1.2.7, I am releasing 1.2.8. It corrects
problems associated with the lock file used to prevent multiple state-changing
operations from occuring simultaneously. My apologies for any inconvenience my
carelessness may have caused.</p>
<p><b>2/22/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.7 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">UPnP probes (UDP destination port 1900) are now silently dropped in the
<i>common</i> chain<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">RFC 1918 checking in the mangle table has been streamlined to no longer
require packet marking. RFC 1918 checking in the filter table has been
changed to require half as many rules as previously.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A 'shorewall check' command has been added that does a cursory validation
of the zones, interfaces, hosts, rules and policy files.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>2/18/2002 - 1.2.6 Debian Package is Available</b></p>
<p>See <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.6 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">$-variables may now be used anywhere in the configuration files except
/etc/shorewall/zones.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The interfaces and hosts files now have their contents validated before
any changes are made to the existing Netfilter configuration. The appearance
of a zone name that isn't defined in /etc/shorewall/zones causes &quot;shorewall
start&quot; and &quot;shorewall restart&quot; to abort without changing the Shorewall state.
Unknown options in either file cause a warning to be issued.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A problem occurring when BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL was not set has been
corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>2/4/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.5 Debian Package Available</b></p>
<p>see <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/1/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.5 Released</b></p>
<p>Due to installation problems with Shorewall 1.2.4, I have released Shorewall
1.2.5. Sorry for the rapid-fire development.</p>
<p>In version 1.2.5:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The installation problems have been corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">SNAT</a> is now supported.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A &quot;shorewall version&quot; command has been added<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The default value of the STATEDIR variable in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf has been changed to /var/lib/shorewall in
order to conform to the GNU/Linux File Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.2.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>1/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.4 Released</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;fw&quot; zone <a href="Documentation.htm#FW">may now be given a
different name</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You may now place end-of-line comments (preceded by '#') in any of the
configuration files<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">There is now protection against against two state changing operations
occuring concurrently. This is implemented using the 'lockfile' utility if
it is available (lockfile is part of procmail); otherwise, a less robust
technique is used. The lockfile is created in the STATEDIR defined in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and has the name &quot;lock&quot;.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">&quot;shorewall start&quot; no longer fails if &quot;detect&quot; is
specified in <a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a> for an interface with subnet mask 255.255.255.255.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>1/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.3 Debian Package Available </b>-- see <a href="http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>1/20/2002 - Corrected firewall script available&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects a problem with BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL. See <a href="errata.htm">the
errata</a> for details.</p>
<p><b>1/19/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.3 Released</b></p>
<p>This is a minor feature and bugfix release. The single new feature is:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for TCP MSS Clamp to PMTU -- This support is usually required when
the internet connection is via PPPoE or PPTP and may be enabled using the <a href="Documentation.htm#ClampMSS">CLAMPMSS</a>
option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>The following problems were corrected:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;shorewall status&quot; command no longer hangs.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;shorewall monitor&quot; command now displays the icmpdef chain<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The CLIENT PORT(S) column in tcrules is no longer ignored<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>1/18/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.2 packaged with new </b><a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">LEAF</a><b>
release</b></p>
<p>Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak have released a kernel 2.4.16 LEAF distribution
that includes Shorewall 1.2.2. See <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo">http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a>
for details.</p>
<p><b>1/11/2002 - Debian Package (.deb) Now Available - </b>Thanks to <a href="mailto:lorenzo.martignoni@milug.org">Lorenzo
Martignoni</a>, a 1.2.2 Shorewall Debian package is now available. There is a
link to Lorenzo's site from the <a href="download.htm">Shorewall download page</a>.</p>
<p><b>1/9/2002 - Updated 1.2.2 /sbin/shorewall available - </b><a href="/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.2/shorewall">This
corrected version </a>restores the &quot;shorewall status&quot; command to
health.</p>
<p><b>1/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.2 Released</b></p>
<p>In version 1.2.2</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for IP blacklisting has been added
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You specify whether you want packets from blacklisted hosts dropped or
rejected using the <a href="Documentation.htm#BLDisposition">BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION
</a>setting in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You specify whether you want packets from blacklisted hosts logged and
at what syslog level using the <a href="Documentation.htm#BLLoglevel">BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL</a>
setting in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You list the IP addresses/subnets that you wish to blacklist in <a href="Documentation.htm#Blacklist">/etc/shorewall/blacklist</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You specify the interfaces you want checked against the blacklist
using the new &quot;<a href="Documentation.htm#BLInterface">blacklist</a>&quot;
option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The black list is refreshed from /etc/shorewall/blacklist by the
&quot;shorewall refresh&quot; command.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Use of TCP RST replies has been expanded&nbsp;
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">TCP connection requests rejected because of a REJECT policy are now
replied with a TCP RST packet.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul2.gif" width="12" height="12" hspace="15" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">TCP connection requests rejected because of a protocol=all rule in
/etc/shorewall/rules are now replied with a TCP RST packet.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A <a href="Documentation.htm#Logfile">LOGFILE</a> specification has been
added to /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. LOGFILE is used to tell the
/sbin/shorewall program where to look for Shorewall messages.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>1/5/2002 - New Parameterized Samples (<a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.2.0/" target="_blank">version
1.2.0</a>) released. </b>These are minor updates to the previously-released
samples. There are two new rules added:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Unless you have explicitly enabled Auth connections (tcp port 113) to your
firewall, these connections will be REJECTED rather than DROPPED. This
speeds up connection establishment to some servers.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Orphan DNS replies are now silently dropped.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>See the README file for upgrade instructions.</p>
<p><b>1/1/2002 - <u><font color="#FF6633">Shorewall Mailing List Moving</font></u></b></p>
<p>The Shorewall mailing list hosted at <a href="http://sourceforge.net"> Sourceforge</a> is moving to Shorewall.net.
If you are a current subscriber to the list at Sourceforge, please <a href="shorewall_mailing_list_migration.htm">see
these instructions</a>. If you would like to subscribe to the new list, visit <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users">http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users</a>.</p>
<p><b>12/31/2001 - Shorewall 1.2.1 Released</b></p>
<p>In version 1.2.1:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#LogUncleanOption">Logging of Mangled/Invalid
Packets</a> is added.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The <a href="IPIP.htm">tunnel script</a> has been corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">'shorewall show tc' now correctly handles tunnels.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>12/21/2001 - Shorewall 1.2.0 Released!</b> - <b>I couldn't resist
releasing 1.2 on 12/21/2001</b></p>
<p>Version 1.2 contains the following new features:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for <a href="traffic_shaping.htm">Traffic Control/Shaping</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for <a href="Documentation.htm#Unclean">Filtering of
Mangled/Invalid Packets</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for <a href="IPIP.htm">GRE Tunnels</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>For the next month or so, I will continue to provide corrections to version
1.1.18 as necessary so that current version 1.1.x users will not be forced into a
quick upgrade to 1.2.0 just to have access to bug fixes.</p>
<p>For those of you who have installed one of the Beta RPMS, you will need to
use the &quot;--oldpackage&quot; option when upgrading to 1.2.0:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>rpm -Uvh --oldpackage shorewall-1.2-0.noarch.rpm</p>
</blockquote>
<p><b>12/19/2001 - Thanks to <a href="mailto:scowles@infohiiway.com">Steve
Cowles</a>, there is now a Shorewall mirror in Texas. </b>This web site is
mirrored at <a href="http://www.infohiiway.com/shorewall" target="_top">http://www.infohiiway.com/shorewall</a>
and the ftp site is at <a href="ftp://ftp.infohiiway.com/pub/mirrors/shorewall">ftp://ftp.infohiiway.com/pub/mirrors/shorewall</a>.<b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p><b>11/30/2001 - A new set of the parameterized <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.18">Sample
Configurations</a> has been released</b>. In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Ping is now allowed between the zones.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">In the three-interface configuration, it is now possible to configure the
internet services that are to be available to servers in the DMZ.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>11/20/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.18.&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The spelling of ADD_IP_ALIASES has been corrected in the shorewall.conf
file<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The logic for deleting user-defined chains has been simplified so that it
avoids a bug in the LRP version of the 'cut' utility.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The /var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.conf file has been corrected to properly
display the NAT entry in that file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>11/19/2001 - Thanks to <a href="mailto:shorewall@timelord.sk">Juraj
Ontkanin</a>, there is now a Shorewall mirror in the Slovak Republic</b>. The website is now mirrored at <a href="http://www.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall" target="_top">http://www.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall</a>
and the FTP site is mirrored at <a href="ftp://ftp.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall">ftp://ftp.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall</a>.</p>
<p><b>11/2/2001 - Announcing Shorewall Parameter-driven Sample Configurations.</b>
There are three sample configurations:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">One Interface -- for a standalone system.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Two Interfaces -- A masquerading firewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Three Interfaces -- A masquerading firewall with DMZ.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p>Samples may be downloaded from <a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.17">
ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.17</a>
. See the README file for instructions.</p>
<p><b>11/1/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.17</b>.&nbsp; I intend
this to be the last of the 1.1 Shorewall releases.</p>
<p> In this version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The handling of <a href="Documentation.htm#Aliases">ADD_IP_ALIASES</a>
has been corrected.<2E><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>10/22/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.16</b>. In this
version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A new &quot;shorewall show connections&quot; command has been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">In the &quot;shorewall monitor&quot; output, the currently tracked
connections are now shown on a separate page.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Prior to this release, Shorewall unconditionally added the external IP
adddress(es) specified in /etc/shorewall/nat. Beginning with version
1.1.16, a new parameter (<a href="Documentation.htm#Aliases">ADD_IP_ALIASES</a>)
may be set to &quot;no&quot; (or &quot;No&quot;) to inhibit this behavior.
This allows IP aliases created using your distribution's network
configuration tools to be used in static NAT.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>10/15/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.15.</b> In this
version:</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for nested zones has been improved. See <a href="Documentation.htm#Nested">
the documentation</a>
for details<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall now correctly checks the alternate configuration directory for
the 'zones' file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>10/4/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.14.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall now supports alternate configuration directories. When an
alternate directory is specified when starting or restarting Shorewall
(e.g., &quot;shorewall -c /etc/testconf restart&quot;), Shorewall will first
look for configuration files in the alternate directory then in
/etc/shorewall. To create an alternate configuration simply:<br>
1. Create a New Directory<br>
2. Copy to that directory any of your configuration files that you want to
change.<br>
3. Modify the copied files as needed.<br>
4. Restart Shorewall specifying the new directory.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The rules for allowing/disallowing icmp echo-requests (pings) are now
moved after rules created when processing the rules file. This allows you to
add rules that selectively allow/deny ping based on source or destination
address.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Rules that specify multiple client ip addresses or subnets no longer cause
startup failures.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Zone names in the policy file are now validated against the zones file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">If you have <a href="Documentation.htm#MangleEnabled">packet mangling</a>
support enabled, the &quot;<a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">norfc1918</a>&quot;
interface option now logs and drops any incoming packets on the interface
that have an RFC 1918 destination address.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>9/12/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.13</b>. In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shell variables can now be used to parameterize Shorewall rules.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The second column in the hosts file may now contain a comma-separated
list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sea&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:130.252.100.0/24,206.191.149.0/24<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Handling of multi-zone interfaces has been improved. See the <a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">documentation
for the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>8/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.12</b>. In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Several columns in the rules file may now contain comma-separated lists.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall is now more rigorous in parsing the options in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Complementation using &quot;!&quot; is now supported in rules.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>7/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.11</b>. In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A &quot;shorewall refresh&quot; command has been added to allow for
refreshing the rules associated with the broadcast address on a dynamic
interface. This command should be used in place of &quot;shorewall
restart&quot; when the internet interface's IP address changes.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The /etc/shorewall/start file (if any) is now processed after all
temporary rules have been deleted. This change prevents the accidental
removal of rules added during the processing of that file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;dhcp&quot; interface option is now applicable to firewall
interfaces used by a DHCP server running on the firewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The RPM can now be built from the .tgz file using &quot;rpm -tb&quot;&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>7/6/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.10.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Shorewall now enables Ipv4 Packet Forwarding by default. Packet forwarding
may be disabled by specifying IP_FORWARD=Off in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. If you don't want Shorewall to enable or
disable packet forwarding, add IP_FORWARDING=Keep to your
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;shorewall hits&quot; command no longer lists extraneous service
names in its last report.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Erroneous instructions in the comments at the head of the firewall script
have been corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>6/23/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.9.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The &quot;tunnels&quot; file <u>really</u> is in the RPM now.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">SNAT can now be applied to port-forwarded connections.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A bug which would cause firewall start failures in some dhcp configurations
has been fixed.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The firewall script now issues a message if you have the name of an
interface in the second column in an entry in /etc/shorewall/masq and that
interface is not up.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">You can now configure Shorewall so that it<a href="Documentation.htm#NatEnabled"> doesn't require the NAT and/or
mangle netfilter modules</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Thanks to Alex&nbsp; Polishchuk, the &quot;hits&quot; command
from seawall is now in shorewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Support for <a href="IPIP.htm">IPIP tunnels</a> has been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>6/18/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.8</b>. In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A typo in the sample rules file has been corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">It is now possible to restrict masquerading by<a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">
destination host or subnet.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">It is now possible to have static <a href="NAT.htm#LocalPackets">NAT rules
applied to packets originating on the firewall itself</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>6/2/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.7.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The TOS rules are now deleted when the firewall is stopped.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The .rpm will now install regardless of which version of iptables is
installed.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The .rpm will now install without iproute2 being installed.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The documentation has been cleaned up.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The sample configuration files included in Shorewall have been formatted
to 80 columns for ease of editing on a VGA console.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/25/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.6</b>. In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#lograte">You may now rate-limit the packet log.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><font face="Century Gothic, Arial, Helvetica">&nbsp;Previous versions of
Shorewall have an implementation of Static NAT which violates the principle
of least surprise.&nbsp; NAT only occurs for packets arriving at (DNAT) or
send from (SNAT) the interface named in the INTERFACE column of
/etc/shorewall/nat. Beginning with version 1.1.6, NAT effective regardless
of which interface packets come from or are destined to. To get
compatibility with prior versions, I have added a new &quot;ALL <a href="NAT.htm#AllInterFaces">&quot;ALL
INTERFACES&quot;&nbsp; column to /etc/shorewall/nat</a>. By placing
&quot;no&quot; or &quot;No&quot; in the new column, the NAT behavior of
prior versions may be retained.&nbsp;</font><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The treatment of <a href="IPSEC.htm#RoadWarrior">IPSEC Tunnels where the remote
gateway is a standalone system has been improved</a>. Previously, it was
necessary to include an additional rule allowing UDP port 500 traffic to
pass through the tunnel. Shorewall will now create this rule automatically
when you place the name of the remote peer's zone in a new GATEWAY ZONE
column in /etc/shorewall/tunnels.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/20/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.5.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#modules">You may now pass parameters when loading
netfilter modules and you can specify the modules to load.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Compressed modules are now loaded. This requires that you modutils support
loading compressed modules.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"><a href="Documentation.htm#TOS">You may now set the Type of Service (TOS)
field in packets.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Corrected rules generated for port redirection (again).<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>5/10/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.4.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica"> <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">Accepting RELATED connections is now
optional.</a><!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Corrected problem where if &quot;shorewall start&quot; aborted early
(due to kernel configuration errors for example), superfluous 'sed' error
messages were reported.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Corrected rules generated for port redirection.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The order in which iptables kernel modules are loaded has been
corrected (Thanks to Mark Pavlidis).&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.3.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Correct message issued when Proxy ARP address added (Thanks to Jason Kirtland).<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">/tmp/shorewallpolicy-$$ is now removed if there is an error while starting the firewall.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">/etc/shorewall/icmp.def and /etc/shorewall/common.def are now used to define the icmpdef and common chains unless overridden by the presence of /etc/shorewall/icmpdef or /etc/shorewall/common.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">In the .lrp, the file /var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.conf has been corrected. An extra space after "/etc/shorwall/policy" has been removed and "/etc/shorwall/rules" has been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">When a sub-shell encounters a fatal error and has stopped the firewall, it now kills the main shell so that the main shell will not continue.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A problem has been corrected where a sub-shell stopped the firewall and main shell continued resulting in a perplexing error message
referring to "common.so" resulted.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Previously, placing "-" in the PORT(S) column in /etc/shorewall/rules resulted in an error message during start. This has been corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The first line of "install.sh" has been corrected -- I had inadvertently deleted the initial "#".<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/12/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.2.</b> In this version</p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Port redirection now works again.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The icmpdef and common chains <a href="Documentation.htm#Icmpdef">may
now be user-defined</a>.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The firewall no longer fails to start if &quot;routefilter&quot; is
specified for an interface that isn't started. A warning message is now
issued in this case.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The LRP Version is renamed &quot;shorwall&quot; for 8,3 MSDOS file
system compatibility.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">A couple of LRP-specific problems were corrected.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>4/8/2001 - Shorewall is now affiliated with the <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">Leaf
Project</a> </b> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">
<img border="0" src="images/leaflogo.gif" width="49" height="36"></a></p>
<p><b>4/5/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.1. In this version:</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The common chain is traversed from INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD before
logging occurs<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The source has been cleaned up dramatically<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">DHCP DISCOVER packets with RFC1918 source addresses no longer
generate log messages. Linux DHCP clients generate such packets and it's
annoying to see them logged.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/25/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.0. In this version:</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Log messages now indicate the packet disposition.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Error messages have been improved.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The ability to define zones consisting of an enumerated set of hosts
and/or subnetworks has been added.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The zone-to-zone chain matrix is now sparse so that only those chains
that contain meaningful rules are defined.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">240.0.0.0/4 and 169.254.0.0/16 have been added to the source
subnetworks whose packets are dropped under the <i>norfc1918</i> interface
option.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Exits are now provided for executing an user-defined script when a
chain is defined, when the firewall is initialized, when the firewall is
started, when the firewall is stopped and when the firewall is cleared.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The Linux kernel's route filtering facility can now be specified
selectively on network interfaces.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/19/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.4. This version:</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Allows user-defined zones. Shorewall now has only one pre-defined
zone (fw) with the remaining zones being defined in the new configuration
file /etc/shorewall/zones. The /etc/shorewall/zones file released in this
version provides behavior that is compatible with Shorewall 1.0.3.&nbsp;<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Adds the ability to specify logging in entries in the
/etc/shorewall/rules file.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Correct handling of the icmp-def chain so that only ICMP packets are
sent through the chain.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">Compresses the output of &quot;shorewall monitor&quot; if awk is
installed. Allows the command to work if awk isn't installed (although
it's not pretty).<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/13/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.3. This is a bug-fix
release with no new features.</b></p>
<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The PATH variable in the firewall script now includes /usr/local/bin
and /usr/local/sbin.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">DMZ-related chains are now correctly deleted if the DMZ is deleted.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--><tr><td valign="baseline" width="42"><img src="_themes/radial/aradbul1.gif" width="15" height="15" hspace="13" alt="bullet"></td><td valign="top" width="100%"><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">The interface OPTIONS for &quot;gw&quot; interfaces are no longer
ignored.<!--mstheme--></font><!--msthemelist--></td></tr>
<!--msthemelist--></table><!--mstheme--><font face="arial, Arial, Helvetica">
<p><b>3/8/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.2. It supports an
additional &quot;gw&quot; (gateway) zone for tunnels and it supports IPSEC
tunnels with end-points on the firewall. There is also a .lrp available now.</b></p>
<p><font size="2">Updated 7/31/2002 - <a href="support.htm">Tom
Eastep</a> </font></p>
<p><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">
Copyright</font> <20> <font size="2">2001, 2002 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font></p>
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