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This is a minor release of Shorewall.
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Problems Corrected since version 1.4.8:
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1) There has been a low continuing level of confusion over the terms
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"Source NAT" (SNAT) and "Static NAT". To avoid future confusion, all
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instances of "Static NAT" have been replaced with "One-to-one NAT"
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in the documentation and configuration files.
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2) The description of NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf has been reworded for
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clarity.
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3) Wild-card rules (those involving "all" as SOURCE or DEST) will no
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longer produce an error if they attempt to add a rule that would
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override a NONE policy. The logic for expanding these wild-card
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rules now simply skips those (SOURCE,DEST) pairs that have a NONE
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policy.
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4) DNAT rules that also specified SNAT now work reliably. Previously,
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there were cases where the SNAT specification was effectively
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ignored.
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Migration Issues:
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None.
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New Features:
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1) The documentation has been completely rebased to Docbook XML. The
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documentation is now released as separate HTML and XML packages.
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2) To cut down on the number of "Why are these ports closed rather than
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stealthed?" questions, the SMB-related rules in
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/etc/shorewall/common.def have been changed from 'reject' to 'DROP'.
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3) For easier identification, packets logged under the 'norfc1918'
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interface option are now logged out of chains named
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'rfc1918'. Previously, such packets were logged under chains named
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'logdrop'.
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4) Distributors and developers seem to be regularly inventing new
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naming conventions for kernel modules. To avoid the need to change
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Shorewall code for each new convention, the MODULE_SUFFIX option has
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been added to shorewall.conf. MODULE_SUFFIX may be set to the suffix
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for module names in your particular distribution. If MODULE_SUFFIX
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is not set in shorewall.conf, Shorewall will use the list "o gz ko
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o.gz".
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To see what suffix is used by your distribution:
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ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter
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All of the files listed should have the same suffix (extension). Set
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MODULE_SUFFIX to that suffix.
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Examples:
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If all files end in ".kzo" then set MODULE_SUFFIX="kzo"
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If all files end in ".kz.o" then set MODULE_SUFFIX="kz.o"
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5) Support for user defined rule ACTIONS has been implemented through
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two new files:
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/etc/shorewall/actions - used to list the user-defined ACTIONS.
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/etc/shorewall/action.template - For each user defined <action>, copy
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this file to
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/etc/shorewall/action.<action> and
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add the appropriate rules for that
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<action>.
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Once an <action> has been defined, it may be used like any of the
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builtin ACTIONS (ACCEPT, DROP, etc.) in /etc/shorewall/rules.
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Example: You want an action that logs a packet at the 'info' level
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and accepts the connection.
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In /etc/shorewall/actions, you would add:
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LogAndAccept
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You would then copy /etc/shorewall/action.template to
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/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept and in that file, you would add the two
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rules:
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LOG:info
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ACCEPT
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6) The default value for NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf is now "Yes"
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(non-syn TCP packets that are not part of an existing connection are
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filtered according to the rules and policies rather than being
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dropped). I have made this change for two reasons:
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a) NEWNOTSYN=No tends to result in lots of "stuck" connections since
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any timeout during TCP session tear down results in the firewall
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dropping all of the retries.
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b) The old default of NEWNOTSYN=No and LOGNEWNOTSYN=info resulted in
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lots of confusing messages when a connection got "stuck". While I
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could have changed the default value of LOGNEWNOTSYN to suppress
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logging, I dislike defaults that silently throw away packets.
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7) The common.def file now contains an entry that silently drops ICMP
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packets with a null source address. Ad Koster reported a case where
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these were occuring frequently as a result of a broken system on his
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external network.
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