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<title>Shorewall 1.4.9</title>
<section>
<title>Problems Corrected</title>
<para>These are the problems corrected since Shorewall 1.4.8</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>There has been a low continuing level of confusion over the
terms <quote>Source NAT</quote> (SNAT) and <quote>Static NAT</quote>.
To avoid future confusion, all instances of <quote>Static NAT</quote>
have been replaced with <quote>One-to-one NAT</quote> in the
documentation and configuration files.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The description of NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf has been reworded
for clarity.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Wild-card rules (those involving <quote>all</quote> as SOURCE or
DEST) will no longer produce an error if they attempt to add a rule
that would override a NONE policy. The logic for expanding these
wild-card rules now simply skips those (SOURCE,DEST) pairs that have a
NONE policy.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Migration Considerations</title>
<para>None.</para>
</section>
<section>
<title>New Features</title>
<para>These are the new features added since Shorewall 1.4.8</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>To cut down on the number of <quote>Why are these ports closed
rather than stealthed?</quote> questions, the SMB-related rules in
/etc/shorewall/common.def have been changed from <quote>reject</quote>
to <quote>DROP</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>For easier identification, packets logged under the
<quote>norfc1918</quote> interface option are now logged out of chains
named <quote>rfc1918</quote>. Previously, such packets were logged
under chains named <quote>logdrop</quote>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Distributors and developers seem to be regularly inventing new
naming conventions for kernel modules. To avoid the need to change
Shorewall code for each new convention, the MODULE_SUFFIX option has
been added to shorewall.conf. MODULE_SUFFIX may be set to the suffix
for module names in your particular distribution. If MODULE_SUFFIX is
not set in shorewall.conf, Shorewall will use the list <quote>o gz ko
o.gz</quote>. To see what suffix is used by your distribution:</para>
<programlisting>ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter</programlisting>
<para>All of the files listed should have the same suffix (extension).
Set MODULE_SUFFIX to that suffix. Examples:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If all files end in <quote>.kzo</quote> then set
MODULE_SUFFIX=&#34;kzo&#34;</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If all files end in <quote>.kz.o</quote> then set
MODULE_SUFFIX=&#34;kz.o&#34;</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Support for user defined rule ACTIONS has been implemented
through two new files: <itemizedlist><listitem><para>/etc/shorewall/actions
- used to list the user-defined ACTIONS.</para></listitem><listitem><para>/etc/shorewall/action.template
- For each user defined &#60;action&#62;:</para><orderedlist><listitem><para>copy
this file to /etc/shorewall/action.&#60;action&#62;</para></listitem><listitem><para>Add
the appropriate rules in that file for the &#60;action&#62;.</para></listitem></orderedlist></listitem></itemizedlist>Once
an &#60;action&#62; has been defined, it may be used like any of the
builtin ACTIONS (ACCEPT, DROP, etc.) in /etc/shorewall/rules.</para>
<para>Example: You want an action that logs a packet at the
<quote>info</quote> level and accepts the connection.</para>
<para>In /etc/shorewall/actions, you would add:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>LogAndAccept</member>
</simplelist>
<para>You would then copy /etc/shorewall/action.template to
/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept and in that file, you would add the
two rules:</para>
<simplelist>
<member>LOG:info</member>
<member>ACCEPT</member>
</simplelist>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
</article>