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<h2>Introduction to Shorewall</h2>
<h3>This is the Shorewall 2.0 Web Site</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The information on this site
applies only to 2.0.x releases of
Shorewall. For older versions:<br>
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<ul>
<ul>
<li>The 1.4 site is <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/1.4"
target="_top">here.<br>
</a></li>
<li>The 1.3 site is <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/1.3"
target="_top">here.</a></li>
<li>The 1.2 site is <a href="http://shorewall.net/1.2/"
target="_top">here</a>.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<h3>Glossary</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.netfilter.org" target="_top">Netfilter</a>
- the
packet filter facility built into the 2.4 and later Linux kernels.</li>
<li>ipchains - the packet filter facility built into the 2.2
Linux kernels. Also the name of the utility program used to configure
and control that facility. Netfilter can be used in ipchains
compatibility mode.</li>
<li>iptables - the utility program used to configure and
control Netfilter. The term 'iptables' is often used to refer to the
combination of iptables+Netfilter (with Netfilter not in ipchains
compatibility mode).</li>
</ul>
<h3>What is Shorewall?</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The Shoreline Firewall, more
commonly known as "Shorewall", is
high-level tool for configuring Netfilter. You describe your
firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration
files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of
the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your
requirements. Shorewall can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a
multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux
system. Shorewall does not use Netfilter's ipchains compatibility mode
and can thus take advantage of Netfilter's <a
href="http://www.cs.princeton.edu/%7Ejns/security/iptables/iptables_conntrack.html"
target="_top">connection
state tracking
capabilities</a>.<br>
<br>
Shorewall is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">not</span> a
daemon. Once Shorewall has configured Netfilter, it's job is complete.
After that, there is no Shorewall code running although the <a
href="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">/sbin/shorewall
program can be used at any time to monitor the Netfilter firewall</a>.<br>
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<h3>Getting Started with Shorewall</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">New to Shorewall? Start by
selecting the <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guide</a>
that most
closely match your environment and follow the step by step instructions.<br>
</div>
<h3>Looking for Information?</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">The <a
href="Documentation_Index.html">Documentation
Index</a> is a good place to start as is the Quick Search in the frame
above. </div>
<h3>Running Shorewall on Mandrake® with a two-interface setup?</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">If so, the documentation on this
site will not apply directly
to your setup. If you want to use the documentation that you find here,
you will want to consider uninstalling what you have and installing a
setup that matches the documentation on this site. See the <a
href="two-interface.htm">Two-interface QuickStart Guide</a> for
details.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Update: </span>I've been
informed by Mandrake Development that this problem has been corrected
in Mandrake 10.0 Final (the problem still exists in the 10.0 Community
release).<br>
</div>
<h3>License</h3>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">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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<p style="margin-left: 40px;">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 detail.</p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;"> </div>
<p style="margin-left: 40px;">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>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">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 <a>"GNU Free
Documentation License"</a>. </div>
<p>Copyright © 2001-2004 Thomas M. Eastep </p>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<h2>News</h2>
<p><b>4/5/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.1 </b><b> <img alt="(New)"
src="images/new10.gif"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 28px; height: 12px;" title=""></b><br>
<b></b></p>
Problems Corrected since 2.0.0<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Using actions in the manner recommended in the
documentation results in a Warning that the rule is a policy.</li>
<li>When a zone on a single interface is defined using
/etc/shorewall/hosts, superfluous rules are generated in the
&lt;zone&gt;_frwd chain.</li>
<li>Thanks to Sean Mathews, a long-standing problem with Proxy
ARP and IPSEC has been corrected. Thanks Sean!!!</li>
<li>The "shorewall show log" and "shorewall logwatch" commands
incorrectly displayed type 3 ICMP packets.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Issues when migrating from Shorewall 2.0.0 to Shorewall 2.0.1:<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>The function of 'norfc1918' is now split between that
option and a new 'nobogons' option.<br>
<br>
The rfc1918 file released with Shorewall now contains entries for only
those three address ranges reserved by RFC 1918. A 'nobogons' interface
option has been added which handles bogon source addresses (those which
are reserved by the IANA, those reserved for DHCP auto-configuration
and the class C test-net reserved for testing and documentation
examples). This will allow users to perform RFC 1918 filtering without
having to deal with out of date data from IANA. Those who are willing
to update their /usr/share/shorewall/bogons file regularly can specify
the 'nobogons' option in addition to 'norfc1918'.<br>
<br>
The level at which bogon packets are logged is specified in the new
BOGON_LOG_LEVEL variable in shorewall.conf. If that option is not
specified or is specified as empty (e.g, BOGON_LOG_LEVEL="") then bogon
packets whose TARGET is 'logdrop' in /usr/share/shorewall/bogons are
logged at the 'info' level.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>Support for Bridging Firewalls has been added. For details,
see<br>
<br>
<a href="http://shorewall.net/bridge.html">http://shorewall.net/bridge.html</a><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for NETMAP has been added. NETMAP allows NAT to be
defined between two network:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;
a.b.c.1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&gt; x.y.z.1<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
a.b.c.2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&gt; x.y.z.2<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
a.b.c.3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&gt; x.y.z.3<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...<br>
<br>
&nbsp; <a href="http://shorewall.net/netmap.htm">http://shorewall.net/netmap.htm</a><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The /sbin/shorewall program now accepts a "-x" option to
cause iptables to print out the actual packet and byte counts rather
than abbreviated counts such as "13MB".<br>
<br>
Commands affected by this are:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall -x show [ &lt;chain&gt;[ &lt;chain&gt; ...] ]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall -x show tos|mangle<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall -x show nat<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall -x status<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall -x monitor [ &lt;interval&gt; ]<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now traps two common zone definition errors:<br>
<ul>
<li>Including the firewall zone in a /etc/shorewall/hosts
record.</li>
<li>Defining an interface for a zone in both
/etc/shorewall/interfaces and /etc/shorewall/hosts.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>In the second case, the following will appear during
"shorewall [re]start" or "shorewall check":<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Determining Hosts in Zones...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Invalid zone definition for zone
&lt;name of zone&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Terminated<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>To support bridging, the following options have been added
to entries in /etc/shorewall/hosts:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; norfc1918<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nobogons<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; blacklist<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcpflags<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; nosmurfs<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; newnotsyn<br>
<br>
With the exception of 'newnotsyn', these options are only useful when
the entry refers to a bridge port.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; #ZONE&nbsp;&nbsp; HOST(S)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
OPTIONS<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
br0:eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
norfc1918,nobogons,blacklist,tcpflags,nosmurfs<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a href="News.htm">More News</a></p>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<p><a href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net" target="_top"><img
alt="(Leaf Logo)"
style="border: 0px solid ; height: 36px; width: 49px;"
src="images/leaflogo.gif" title=""></a> LEAF is an open source project
which provides a Firewall/router on a floppy, CD or CF. Several LEAF
distributions including Bering and Bering-uCLib use Shorewall as their
Netfilter configuration tool.<br>
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<h2><a name="Donations"></a>Donations<br>
</h2>
<p style="text-align: left;"> <big><a href="http://www.alz.org"
target="_top"><img src="images/alz_logo2.gif" title=""
alt="(Alzheimer's Association Logo)"
style="border: 0px solid ; width: 300px; height: 60px;" align="left"></a>Shorewall
is free but
if you
try it and find it useful,
please consider making a donation to the <a href="http://www.alz.org/"
target="_top">Alzheimer's Association</a>. Thanks!</big> </p>
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<p><font size="2">Updated 04/12/2004 - <a href="support.htm">Tom Eastep</a></font><br>
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