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<title>Shorewall Traffic Accounting</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2003-2009</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<caution>
<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 4.0 and
later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
4.0.0 then please see the documentation for that
release</emphasis>.</para>
</caution>
<section id="Basics">
<title>Accounting Basics</title>
<para>Shorewall accounting rules are described in the file
<filename><filename>/etc/shorewall/accounting</filename></filename>. By
default, the accounting rules are placed in a chain called
<quote>accounting</quote> and can thus be displayed using
<quote>shorewall[-lite] show -x accounting</quote>. All traffic passing
into, out of, or through the firewall traverses the accounting chain
including traffic that will later be rejected by interface options such as
<quote>tcpflags</quote> and <quote>maclist</quote>.</para>
<para>The columns in the accounting file are described in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-accounting.html">shorewall-accounting</ulink> (5)
and <ulink
url="manpages6/shorewall6-accounting.html">shorewall6-accounting</ulink>
(5).</para>
<para>In all columns except ACTION and CHAIN, the values <quote>-</quote>,
<quote>any</quote> and <quote>all</quote> are treated as
wild-cards.</para>
<para>The accounting rules are evaluated in the Netfilter
<quote>filter</quote> table. This is the same environment where the
<quote>rules</quote> file rules are evaluated and in this environment,
DNAT has already occurred in inbound packets and SNAT has not yet occurred
on outbound packets.</para>
<para>Accounting rules are not stateful -- each rule only handles traffic
in one direction. For example, if eth0 is your Internet interface, and you
have a web server in your DMZ connected to eth1, then to count HTTP
traffic in both directions requires two rules:</para>
<programlisting> #ACTION CHAIN SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL DEST SOURCE
# PORT PORT
DONE - eth0 eth1 tcp 80
DONE - eth1 eth0 tcp - 80</programlisting>
<para>Associating a counter with a chain allows for nice reporting. For
example:</para>
<programlisting> #ACTION CHAIN SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL DEST SOURCE
# PORT PORT
web:COUNT - eth0 eth1 tcp 80
web:COUNT - eth1 eth0 tcp - 80
web:COUNT - eth0 eth1 tcp 443
web:COUNT - eth1 eth0 tcp - 443
DONE web</programlisting>
<para>Now <command>shorewall show web</command> (or
<command>shorewall-lite show web</command> for Shorewall Lite users) will
give you a breakdown of your web traffic:</para>
<programlisting> [root@gateway shorewall]# shorewall show web
Shorewall-1.4.6-20030821 Chain web at gateway.shorewall.net - Wed Aug 20 09:48:56 PDT 2003
Counters reset Wed Aug 20 09:48:00 PDT 2003
Chain web (4 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
11 1335 tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80
18 1962 tcp -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:80
0 0 tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:443
0 0 tcp -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:443
29 3297 RETURN all -- * * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
[root@gateway shorewall]#</programlisting>
<para>Here is a slightly different example:</para>
<programlisting> #ACTION CHAIN SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL DEST SOURCE
# PORT PORT
web - eth0 eth1 tcp 80
web - eth1 eth0 tcp - 80
web - eth0 eth1 tcp 443
web - eth1 eth0 tcp - 443
COUNT web eth0 eth1
COUNT web eth1 eth0</programlisting>
<para>Now <command>shorewall show web</command> (or
<command>shorewall-lite show web</command> for Shorewall Lite users)
simply gives you a breakdown by input and output:</para>
<programlisting> [root@gateway shorewall]# shorewall show accounting web
Shorewall-1.4.6-20030821 Chains accounting web at gateway.shorewall.net - Wed Aug 20 10:27:21 PDT 2003
Counters reset Wed Aug 20 10:24:33 PDT 2003
Chain accounting (3 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
8767 727K web tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80
0 0 web tcp -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:443</programlisting>
<programlisting>
11506 13M web tcp -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:80
0 0 web tcp -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:443
Chain web (4 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
8767 727K all -- eth0 eth1 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
11506 13M all -- eth1 eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
[root@gateway shorewall]#</programlisting>
<para>Here's how the same example would be constructed on an HTTP server
with only one interface (eth0).</para>
<caution>
<para>READ THE ABOVE CAREFULLY -- IT SAYS <emphasis
role="bold">SERVER</emphasis>. If you want to account for web browsing,
you have to reverse the rules below.</para>
</caution>
<programlisting> #ACTION CHAIN SOURCE DESTINATION PROTOCOL DEST SOURCE
# PORT PORT
web - eth0 - tcp 80
web - - eth0 tcp - 80
web - eth0 - tcp 443
web - - eth0 tcp - 443
COUNT web eth0
COUNT web - eth0</programlisting>
<para>Note that with only one interface, only the SOURCE (for input rules)
or the DESTINATION (for output rules) is specified in each rule.</para>
<para>Here's the output:</para>
<programlisting> [root@mail shorewall]# shorewall show accounting web Shorewall-1.4.7
Chains accounting web at mail.shorewall.net - Sun Oct 12 10:27:21 PDT 2003
Counters reset Sat Oct 11 08:12:57 PDT 2003
Chain accounting (3 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
8767 727K web tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:80
11506 13M web tcp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:80
0 0 web tcp -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:443
0 0 web tcp -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp spt:443
Chain web (4 references)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
8767 727K all -- eth0 * 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
11506 13M all -- * eth0 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0
[root@mail shorewall]#</programlisting>
<para>For an example of integrating Shorewall Accounting with MRTG, see
<ulink
url="http://www.nightbrawler.com/code/shorewall-stats/">http://www.nightbrawler.com/code/shorewall-stats/</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section id="Bridge">
<title>Accounting with Bridges</title>
<para>The structure of the accounting rules changes slightly when there
are <ulink url="bridge-Shorewall-perl.html">bridges</ulink> defined in the
Shorewall configuration. Because of the restrictions imposed by Netfilter
in kernel 2.6.21 and later, output accounting rules must be segregated
from forwarding and input rules. To accomplish this separation,
Shorewall-perl creates two accounting chains:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">accounting</emphasis> - for input and
forwarded traffic.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis role="bold">accountout</emphasis> - for output
traffic.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>If the CHAIN column contains <quote>-</quote>, then:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If the SOURCE column in a rule includes the name of the firewall
zone (e.g., $FW), then the default chain to insert the rule into is
<emphasis role="bold">accountout</emphasis> only.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Otherwise, if the DEST in the rule is <emphasis
role="bold">any</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">all</emphasis> or
0.0.0.0/0, then the rule is added to both <emphasis
role="bold">accounting</emphasis> and <emphasis
role="bold">accountout</emphasis>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Otherwise, the rule is added to <emphasis
role="bold">accounting</emphasis> only.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section id="Collectd">
<title>Integrating Shorewall Accounting with Collectd</title>
<para>Sergiusz Pawlowicz has written a nice article that shows how to
integrate Shorewall Accounting with collectd to produce nice graphs of
traffic activity. The article may be found at <ulink
url="http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:IPTables">http://collectd.org/wiki/index.php/Plugin:IPTables</ulink>.</para>
</section>
<section id="perIP">
<title>Per-IP Accounting</title>
<para>Shorewall 4.4.17 added support for per-IP accounting using the
ACCOUNT target. That target is only available when xtables-addons is
installed. This support has been successfully tested with xtables-addons
1.32 on:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Fedora 14</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Debian Squeeze</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>and xtables-addons Version 1.21 on:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Debian Lenny</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Information about xtables-addons installation may be found at <ulink
url="Dynamic.html#xtables-addons">here</ulink>.</para>
<para>Per-IP accounting is configured in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall-accounting.html">shorewall-accounting</ulink> (5)
(it is currently not supported in IPv6). In the ACTION column,
enter:</para>
<simplelist>
<member><emphasis
role="bold">ACCOUNT(</emphasis><replaceable>table</replaceable>,<replaceable>network</replaceable><emphasis
role="bold">)</emphasis></member>
</simplelist>
<para>where</para>
<simplelist>
<member><replaceable>table</replaceable> is the name of an accounting
table (you choose the name). All rules specifying the same table will
have their per-IP counters accumulated in that table.</member>
<member><replaceable>network</replaceable> is an IPv4 network in CIDR
notation. The network can be as large as a /8 (class A).</member>
</simplelist>
<para>One nice feature of per-IP accounting is that the counters survive
<command>shorewall restart</command>. This has a downside, however. If you
change the network associated with an accounting table, then you must
<command>shorewall stop; shorewall start</command> to have a successful
restart (counters will be cleared).</para>
<para>Example: Suppose your WAN interface is eth0 and your LAN interface
is eth1 with network 172.20.1.0/24. To account for all traffic between the
WAN and LAN interfaces:</para>
<programlisting>#ACTION CHAIN SOURCE DEST ...
ACCOUNT(net-loc,172.20.1.0/24) - eth0 eth1
ACCOUNT(net-loc,172.20.1.0/24) - eth1 eth0</programlisting>
<para>This will create a <emphasis role="bold">net-loc</emphasis> table
for counting packets and bytes for traffic between the two
interfaces.</para>
<para>The table is dumped using the <command>iptaccount</command> utility
(part of xtables-addons):</para>
<programlisting><command>iptaccount [-f] -l net-loc</command></programlisting>
<para>Example:</para>
<programlisting>gateway:~# <emphasis role="bold">iptaccount -l net-loc</emphasis>
libxt_ACCOUNT_cl userspace accounting tool v1.3
Showing table: net-loc
Run #0 - 3 items found
IP: 172.20.1.105 SRC packets: 115 bytes: 131107 DST packets: 68 bytes: 20045
IP: 172.20.1.131 SRC packets: 47 bytes: 12729 DST packets: 38 bytes: 25304
IP: 172.20.1.145 SRC packets: 20747 bytes: 2779676 DST packets: 27050 bytes: 32286071
Finished.
gateway:~#</programlisting>
<para>For each local IP address with non-zero counters, the packet and
byte count for both incoming traffic (IP is DST) and outgoing traffic (IP
is SRC) are listed. The -f option causes the table to be flushed (reset
all counters to zero) after printing.</para>
<para>For a command synopsis:</para>
<programlisting><command>iptaccount --help</command></programlisting>
</section>
</article>