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<h1 align="center"> <font size="4"><i> <a
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</a></i></font><font
color="#ffffff">Shorewall 1.4 - <font
size="4">"<i>iptables made easy"</i></font></font><br>
<a target="_top" href="1.3/index.html"><font color="#ffffff">
<small><small><small>Shorewall 1.3 Site here</small></small></small></font></a><br>
<a target="_top" href="http://www1.shorewall.net/1.2/index.htm"><font
color="#ffffff"><small><small><small>Shorewall 1.2 Site here<br>
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<h2 align="left">What is it?</h2>
<p>The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is
a <a href="http://www.netfilter.org">Netfilter</a> (iptables)
based firewall that can be used on a dedicated firewall
system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on
a standalone GNU/Linux system.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under
the terms of <a
href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">Version 2 of the
GNU General Public License</a> as published by the Free Software
Foundation.<br>
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This program
is distributed in the hope that it will
be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without
even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.<br>
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You should have
received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this program; if
not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA</p>
<p><a href="copyright.htm">Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep</a></p>
<p> <a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img
border="0" src="images/leaflogo.gif" width="49" height="36">
</a>Jacques Nilo
and Eric Wolzak have a LEAF (router/firewall/gateway
on a floppy, CD or compact flash) distribution
called <i>Bering</i> that features
Shorewall-1.3.14 and Kernel-2.4.20. You can
find their work at: <a
href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo"> http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a></p>
<b>Congratulations
to Jacques and Eric on the recent release of Bering
1.1!!! <br>
</b>
<h2><b>News</b></h2>
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<p><b>4/9/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.2</b><b> </b><b> </b><b><img
border="0" src="images/new10.gif" width="28" height="12" alt="(New)">
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<p><b><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> Problems Corrected:</b></p>
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<ol>
<li>TCP connection requests rejected out of the <b>common</b> chain
are now properly rejected with TCP RST; previously, some of these requests
were rejected with an ICMP port-unreachable response.</li>
<li>'traceroute -I' from behind the firewall previously timed out
on the first hop (e.g., to the firewall). This has been worked around.</li>
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<p><b><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> New Features:</b></p>
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<li>Where an entry in the/etc/shorewall/hosts file specifies a
particular host or network, Shorewall now creates an intermediate chain for
handling input from the related zone. This can substantially reduce the number
of rules traversed by connections requests from such zones.<br>
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</li>
<li>Any file may include an INCLUDE directive. An INCLUDE directive
consists of the word INCLUDE followed by a file name and causes the contents
of the named file to be logically included into the file containing the INCLUDE.
File names given in an INCLUDE directive are assumed to reside in /etc/shorewall
or in an alternate configuration directory if one has been specified for the
command. <br>
<20><br>
<20><> Examples:<br>
<20><> shorewall/params.mgmt:<br>
<20><> MGMT_SERVERS=1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3<br>
<20><> TIME_SERVERS=4.4.4.4<br>
<20><> BACKUP_SERVERS=5.5.5.5<br>
<20><> ----- end params.mgmt -----<br>
<20><br>
<20><br>
<20><> shorewall/params:<br>
<20><> # Shorewall 1.3 /etc/shorewall/params<br>
<20><> [..]<br>
<20><> #######################################<br>
<20><br>
<20><> INCLUDE params.mgmt<6D><74><EFBFBD> <br>
<20> <br>
<20><> # params unique to this host here<br>
<20><> #LAST LINE - ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS ONE - DO NOT REMOVE<br>
<20><> ----- end params -----<br>
<20><br>
<20><br>
<20><> shorewall/rules.mgmt:<br>
<20><> ACCEPT net:$MGMT_SERVERS<52><53><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> $FW<46><57><EFBFBD> tcp<63><70><EFBFBD> 22<br>
<20><> ACCEPT $FW<46><57><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> net:$TIME_SERVERS<52><53><EFBFBD> udp<64><70><EFBFBD> 123<br>
<20><> ACCEPT $FW<46><57><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> net:$BACKUP_SERVERS<52> tcp<63><70><EFBFBD> 22<br>
<20><> ----- end rules.mgmt -----<br>
<20><br>
<20><> shorewall/rules:<br>
<20><> # Shorewall version 1.3 - Rules File<br>
<20><> [..]<br>
<20><> #######################################<br>
<20><br>
<20><> INCLUDE rules.mgmt<6D><74><EFBFBD><EFBFBD> <br>
<20> <br>
<20><> # rules unique to this host here<br>
<20><> #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE<br>
<20><> ----- end rules -----<br>
<20><br>
INCLUDE's may be nested to a level of 3 -- further nested INCLUDE directives
are ignored with a warning message.<br>
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</li>
<li>Routing traffic from an interface back out that interface continues
to be a problem. While I firmly believe that this should never happen, people
continue to want to do it. To limit the damage that such nonsense produces,
I have added a new 'routeback' option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces and /etc/shorewall/hosts.
When used in /etc/shorewall/interfaces, the 'ZONE' column may not contain
'-'; in other words, 'routeback' can't be used as an option for a multi-zone
interface. The 'routeback' option CAN be specified however on individual group
entries in /etc/shorewall/hosts.<br>
<20><br>
The 'routeback' option is similar to the old 'multi' option with two exceptions:<br>
<20><br>
<20><> a) The option pertains to a particular zone,interface,address tuple.<br>
<20><br>
<20><> b) The option only created infrastructure to pass traffic from (zone,interface,address)
tuples back to themselves (the 'multi' option affected all (zone,interface,address)
tuples associated with the given 'interface').<br>
<20><br>
See the '<a href="file:///Z:/Shorewall-docs/upgrade_issues.htm">Upgrade
Issues</a>' for information about how this new option may affect your configuration.<br>
</li>
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<p><a href="file:///Z:/Shorewall-docs/News.htm"></a></p>
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<p align="center"><font size="4" color="#ffffff">Shorewall is free
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<p><font size="2">Updated 4/7/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font>
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