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<span style="font-weight: bold;">10/05/2005
Shorewall 2.4.5<br>
</span>
<br>
Problems Corrected in 2.4.5<br>
<ol>
<li>In previous versions, when the command is 'start', 'restart' or
'stop' then OUTPUT traffic to hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is not enabled if ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes.
That traffic is now enabled independent of the setting of
ADMINISABSENTMINDED.</li>
<li>Although it was documented that icmp types could be used in the
tcrules file, the code did not support it. Thanks to Jorge Molina, that
problem is now corrected.</li>
<li>In a multi-ISP configuration, fwmark routing rules now have a
higher priority than source IP rules. This allows entries in tcrules to
be more effective in controlling routing.</li>
<li>Previously, not all of the mangle chains were flushed during
"shorewall restart".</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">09/12/2005 Shorewall 2.4.4<br>
</span><br>
Problems Corrected<br>
<ol>
<li>An incorrect comment in the /etc/shorewall/proxyarp file has been
removed.</li>
<li>The message generated when a duplicate policy has been entered is
now more informative. Previously, only the POLICY column contents
appeared in the message. Now the SOURCE, DEST and POLICY column
contents are shown.</li>
<li>Shorewall now clears the Netfilter "raw" table during "shorewall
[re]start", "shorewall stop" and "shorewall clear" processing.</li>
</ol>
New Features<br>
<ol>
<li>Tunnel types "openvpnserver" and "openvpnclient" have been added
to reflect the introduction of client and server OpenVPN configurations
in OpenVPN 2.0.</li>
<li>The COMMAND variable is now set to 'restore' in restore scripts.
The value of this variable is sometimes of interest to programmers
providing custom /etc/shorewall/tcstart scripts.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">08/16/2005 Shorewall 2.4.3<br>
</span><br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall is no longer dependent on the 'which' utility.</li>
<li>The 'shorewall add' command failed if there existed a zone in the
configuration that specified the 'ipsec' option in /etc/shorewall/hosts.</li>
<li>Shorewall is no longer dependent on /bin/echo.</li>
<li>A CLASSIFY rule&nbsp; with $FW in the SOURCE column (tcrules) no
longer results in a "shorewall start" error.</li>
<li>You may now use port lists in the DEST PORT and SOURCE PORT
columns of the /etc/shorewall/accounting file.</li>
<li>The "shorewall show capabilities" command now accurately reports
the availability of "Packet type match" independent of the setting of
PKTTYPE in shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>Thanks to Tuomo Soini, all of the files have been siginificantly
cleaned up in terms of formatting and extra white-space.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>New Allow.Submission and Allow.NTPbrd actions have been added.
Users of the Allow.NTP action that use NTP broadcasting should switch
to use of Allow.NTPbrd instead.</li>
<li>The kernel version string is now included in the output of
"shorewall status".<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">07/30/2005 Shorewall 2.2.6<br>
<br>
</span>Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li><a href="#20050717">MACLIST_TTL Vulnerability</a> fix.</li>
<li>TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL=ULOG breaks with recent versions of iptables.</li>
<li>The bogons file has been updated to reflect recent IANA
allocations.</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">07/21/2005 Shorewall 2.4.2<br>
<br>
</span>Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/hosts file now includes information about
defining a zone using one or more ipsets.</li>
<li>A <a href="#20050717">vulnerability involving MACLIST_TTL &gt; 0
or MACLIST_DISPOSITION=ACCEPT</a> has been corrected.</li>
<li>It is now possible to specify !&lt;address&gt; in the SUBNET
column of /etc/shorewall/masq. Previously, it was necessary to write
0.0.0.0/0!&lt;address&gt;.</li>
<li>When &lt;network1&gt;!&lt;network2&gt; was specified in the
SUBNET column of /etc/shorewall/masq, IPSEC policies were not correctly
applied to the resulting rules. This usually resulted in IPSEC not
working through the interface specified in the INTERFACES column.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li> A 'loose' provider option has been added. If you wish to be able
to use marking to specify the gateway used by connections originating
on the firewall itself, the specify 'loose' for each provider. It has
bee reported that 'loose' may break the effect of 'track' so beware if
you need 'track' functionality (you shouldn't be originating many
connections from your firewall to the net anyway).<br>
<br>
To use 'loose', you also need to add two entries in /etc/shorewall/masq:<br>
<pre><span style="font-family: monospace;">#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
$IF_ISP1 $IP_ISP2 $IP_ISP1<br>
$IF_ISP2 $IP_ISP1 $IP_ISP2</span>
</pre>
where:<br>
<pre> $IF_ISP1 is the interface to ISP 1.<br>
$IF_ISP2 is the interface to ISP 2.<br>
$IP_ISP1 is the IP address of $IF_ISP1<br>
$IP_ISP2 is the IP address of $IF_ISP2
</pre>
</li>
<li>/sbin/shorewall now issues a warning each time that it finds that
startup is disabled.</li>
<li>A new COPY column has been added to the /etc/shorewall/providers
file. Normally, when a table name/number is given in the DUPLICATE
column, the entire table (less default routes) is copied. The COPY
column allows you to limit the routes copied to those that go through
an interface listed in COPY. For example, if you enter eth0 in
INTERFACE, "eth1,eth2" in COPY and 'main' in DUPLICATE then the new
table created will contain those routes through the interfaces eth0,
eth1 and eth2.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;">
<h2><a name="20050717"></a><font color="#ff0000">07/17/2005 Security
vulnerability in MACLIST processing</font></h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>A security vulnerability has been discovered which affects all
supported stable versions of Shorewall.&nbsp; This vulnerability
enables a client accepted by MAC address filtering to bypass any other
rule.&nbsp; If MACLIST_TTL is set to a value greater than 0 or
MACLIST_DISPOSITION is set to "ACCEPT" in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
(default is MACLIST_TTL=0 and MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT), and a client
is positively identified through its MAC address, it bypasses all other
policies/rules in place, thus gaining access to all open services on
the firewall.</p>
<h3>Fix</h3>
<h4>Workaround</h4>
<p>For Shorewall 2.2.x or 2.4.x, set MACLIST_TTL=0 or
MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.&nbsp; For
Shorewall 2.0.x, set MACLIST_DISPOSITION=REJECT in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.&nbsp; MACLIST filtering is of limited
value on Internet-connected hosts, and the Shorewall team recommends
this approach to be used if possible.</p>
<h4>Upgrade</h4>
<p>For Shorewall 2.4.x, a fixed version of the 'firewall' script is
available at: <a
href="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall">
http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall</a>
and its mirrors, <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall">
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall</a>
and <a
href="http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall">
http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.4/shorewall-2.4.1/errata/firewall</a>.</p>
<p>For Shorewall 2.2.x, a fixed version of the 'firewall' script is
available at: <a
href="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall">
http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall</a>
and its mirrors, <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall">
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall</a>
and <a
href="http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall">
http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2/shorewall-2.2.5/errata/firewall</a>.</p>
<p>For Shorewall 2.0.x, a fixed version of the 'firewall' script is
available at: <a
href="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall</a>
and its mirrors, <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall">
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall</a> and <a
href="http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall">
http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/2.0.17/firewall</a>.</p>
<p>Users of any version before 2.0.17 are urged to upgrade to a
supported version of Shorewall (preferably 2.4.1) before using the
fixed files.&nbsp; Only the most recent version of the 2.0.x and 2.2.x
streams will be supported by the development team, and the 1.x branches
are no longer maintained at all.&nbsp; Future releases of Shorewall
will include this fix.</p>
<p>This information was based on <a
href="http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Jul/0409.html">Patrick
Blitz's post to the Full Disclosure mailing list</a>.&nbsp; Thanks to
Supernaut (supernaut at ns dot sympatico dot ca) for reporting this bug.<br>
</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Version Upgrade<br>
</span></p>
<p>The vulnerability is corrected in Shorewall 2.4.2 and in Shorewall
2.2.6.<br>
</p>
<hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;">07/13/2005
Shorewall 2.4.1<br>
</span><br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Shell variables may now be used in the zones file.</li>
<li>The /usr/share/shorewall/bogons file has been updated to reflect
recent IANA allocations.</li>
<li>Shorewall now detects an error where multiple providers specify
the 'track' option on the same interface.</li>
<li>The remnants of the GATEWAY column in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
have been removed. This column appeared briefly in one of the Beta
versions and was immediately removed but some vestiges remained.</li>
<li>Shorewall now correctly restores a load-balancing default route
during processing of the 'shorewall restore' and 'shorewall -f start'
commands. The latter command is normally executed by the Shorewall init
script during reboot.</li>
<li>A log level of "None!" is now allowed on builtin actions such as
ACCEPT and DROP.</li>
<li>Previously, LIMIT:BURST parameters in /etc/shorewall/policy were
not correctly applied when the policy was QUEUE.</li>
<li>The 'chkconfig' command on FC4 and Mandriva previously created
symbolic links with incorrect names ("S-1shorewall"). The init script
has been changed to prevent this incorrect behavior.</li>
<li>DHCP traffic forwarded through a bridge could, under some
configurations, be filtered by the 'maclist' option even though the
'dhcp' option was specified. This has been corrected.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">06/05/2005 Shorewall 2.4.0<br>
<br>
Note:</span> Because of the short time that has elapsed since the
release of Shorewall 2.2.0, Shorewall 2.0 will be supported until 1
December 2005 or until the release of Shorewall 2.6.0, whichever occurs
first.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall 2.4.0 includes support for multiple internet interfaces
to different ISPs.<br>
<br>
The file /etc/shorewall/providers may be used to define the different
providers. It can actually be used to define alternate routing tables
so uses like transparent proxy can use the file as well.<br>
<br>
Columns are:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NAME&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The provider name.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NUMBER&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The
provider number -- a number between 1 and 15</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
MARK&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
A FWMARK value used in your /etc/shorewall/tcrules file to direct
packets for this provider.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DUPLICATE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The name of an existing
table to duplicate. May</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">be
'main' or the name of a previous provider.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The name of the network
interface to the</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">provider.
Must be listed in</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">/etc/shorewall/interfaces.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GATEWAY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The IP address
of the provider's gateway router.</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">If you enter "detect" here then
Shorewall<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
will</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">attempt to determine
the gateway IP address</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">automatically.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
OPTIONS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A
comma-separated list selected from the</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">following:</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
track&nbsp;&nbsp; If specified, connections FROM this interface are</span>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">to be tracked so that
responses may be<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
routed</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">back out this same
interface.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
You want specify 'track' if internet hosts will be</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">connecting to local servers through<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
this</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">provider.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Because of limitations in the 'ip' utility and</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">policy routing, you may not use the
SAVE or</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
RESTORE tcrules options or use connection</span><span
style="font-family: monospace;">marking on any traffic to or from this</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
interface. For traffic control purposes, you</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">must mark packets in the FORWARD chain
(or</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
better yet, use the CLASSIFY target).</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
balance The providers that have 'balance' specified will</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">get outbound traffic load-balanced
among<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
them. By</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">default, all
interfaces with 'balance' specified</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">will have the same weight (1).<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
You can change the</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">weight
of the route out of the interface by</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">specifiying balance=&lt;weight&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
where &lt;weight&gt; is</span><span style="font-family: monospace;">the
desired route weight.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:&nbsp; You run squid in
your DMZ on IP address 192.168.2.99. Your DMZ interface is eth2<br>
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#NAME&nbsp;&nbsp; NUMBER&nbsp; MARK DUPLICATE&nbsp; INTERFACE
GATEWAY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OPTIONS</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Squid&nbsp;&nbsp; 1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth2&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.2.99&nbsp; -</span><br>
<br>
Use of this feature requires that your kernel and iptabls support
CONNMARK target and conntrack match support. It does NOT require the
ROUTE target extension.<br>
<br>
WARNING: The current version of iptables (1.3.1) is broken with respect
to CONNMARK and iptables-save/iptables-restore. This means that if you
configure multiple ISPs, "shorewall restore" may fail. You must patch
your iptables using the patch at <a
href="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/iptables/CONNMARK.diff">
http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/iptables/CONNMARK.diff</a>.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall 2.3.0 supports the 'cmd-owner' option of the owner
match facility in Netfilter. Like all owner match options, 'cmd-owner'
may only be applied to traffic that originates on the firewall.<br>
<br>
The syntax of the USER/GROUP column in the following files has been
extended:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/accounting<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/rules<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/tcrules<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/usr/share/shorewall/action.template<br>
<br>
To specify a command, prefix the command name with "+".<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+mozilla-bin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#The program is named "mozilla-bin"</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
joe+mozilla-bin&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #The
program is named "mozilla-bin" and</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#is being run by user "joe"</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
joe:users+mozilla-bin&nbsp;&nbsp; #The program is named "mozilla-bin"
and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#is being run by user "joe" with</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#effective group "users".</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Note that this is not a particularly robust feature and I
would never advertise it as a "Personal Firewall" equivalent. Using
symbolic links, it's easy to alias command names to be anything you
want.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support has been added for ipsets (see <a
href="http://people.netfilter.org/kadlec/ipset/">http://people.netfilter.org/kadlec/ipset/</a>).<br>
<br>
In most places where a host or network address may be used, you may
also use the name of an ipset prefaced by "+".<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example: "+Mirrors"<br>
<br>
The name of the set may be optionally followed by:<br>
<br>
a) a number from 1 to 6 enclosed in square brackets ([]) -- this number
indicates the maximum number of ipset binding levels that are to be
matched. Depending on the context where the ipset name is used, either
all "src" or all "dst" matches will be used.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example: "+Mirrors[4]"<br>
<br>
b) a series of "src" and "dst" options separated by commas and inclosed
in square brackets ([]). These will be passed directly to iptables in
the generated --set clause. See the ipset documentation for details.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:
"+Mirrors[src,dst,src]"<br>
<br>
Note that "+Mirrors[4]" used in the SOURCE column of the rules file is
equivalent to "+Mirrors[src,src,src,src]".<br>
<br>
To generate a negative match, prefix the "+" with "!" as in "!+Mirrors".<br>
<br>
Example 1: Blacklist all hosts in an ipset named "blacklist"<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/blacklist<br>
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#ADDRESS/SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTOCOL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PORT</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+blacklist</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br>
Example 2: Allow SSH from all hosts in an ipset named "sshok:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/rules<br>
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#ACTION&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SOURCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DEST&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DEST PORT(S)</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
+sshok&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br>
Shorewall can automatically capture the contents of your ipsets for
you. If you specify SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
then "shorewall save" will save the contents of your ipsets. The file
where the sets are saved is formed by taking the name where the
Shorewall configuration is stored and appending "-ipsets". So if you
enter the command "shorewall save standard" then your Shorewall
configuration will be saved in var/lib/shorewall/standard and your
ipset contents will be saved in /var/lib/shorewall/standard-ipsets.
Assuming the default RESTOREFILE setting, if you just enter "shorewall
save" then your Shorewall configuration will be saved in
/var/lib/shorewall/restore and your ipset contents will be saved in
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-ipsets.<br>
<br>
Regardless of the setting of SAVE_IPSETS, the "shorewall -f start" and
"shorewall restore" commands will restore the ipset contents
corresponding to the Shorewall configuration restored provided that the
saved Shorewall configuration specified exists.<br>
<br>
For example, "shorewall restore standard" would restore the ipset
contents from /var/lib/shorewall/standard-ipsets provided that
/var/lib/shorewall/standard exists and is executable and that
/var/lib/shorewall/standard-ipsets exists and is executable.<br>
<br>
Also regardless of the setting of SAVE_IPSETS, the "shorewall forget"
command will purge the saved ipset information (if any) associated with
the saved shorewall configuration being removed.<br>
<br>
You can also associate ipset contents with Shorewall configuration
directories using the following command:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -S &gt; &lt;config
directory&gt;/ipsets<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -S &gt; /etc/shorewall/ipsets<br>
<br>
When you start or restart Shorewall (including using the 'try' command)
from the configuration directory, your ipsets will be configured from
the saved ipsets file. Once again, this behavior is independent of the
setting of SAVE_IPSETS.<br>
<br>
Ipsets are well suited for large blacklists. You can maintain your
blacklist using the 'ipset' utility without ever having to restart or
refresh Shorewall. If you use the SAVE_IPSETS=Yes feature just be sure
to "shorewall save" after altering the blacklist ipset(s).<br>
<br>
Example /etc/shorewall/blacklist:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
#ADDRESS/SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTOCOL&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PORT</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
+Blacklist[src,dst]</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
+Blacklistnets[src,dst]</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br>
Create the blacklist ipsets using:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -N
Blacklist iphash<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -N
Blacklistnets nethash<br>
<br>
Add entries<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -A Blacklist 206.124.146.177<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -A Blacklistnets
206.124.146.0/24<br>
<br>
To allow entries for individual ports<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -N SMTP portmap --from 1
--to 31<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -A SMTP 25<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -A Blacklist 206.124.146.177<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipset -B Blacklist 206.124.146.177
-b SMTP<br>
<br>
Now only port 25 will be blocked from 206.124.146.177.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall 2.4.0 can now configure routing if your kernel and
iptables support the ROUTE target extension. This extension is
available in Patch-O-Matic-ng. This feature is *EXPERIMENTAL* since the
Netfilter team have no intention of ever releasing the ROUTE target
extension to kernel.org.<br>
<br>
Routing is configured using the /etc/shorewall/routes file. Columns in
the file are as follows:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SOURCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Source of the packet. May be any of the</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">following:</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A host or network address</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A network interface name.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- The name of an ipset prefaced with "+"</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- $FW (for packets originating on the firewall)</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A MAC address in Shorewall format</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A range of IP addresses (assuming that your</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">kernel and iptables support range
match)</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A network interface name followed by ":"</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">and an address or address range.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DEST&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Destination of the packet. May be any of the</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">following:</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A host or network address</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A network interface name (determined from</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
routing table(s))</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- The name of an ipset prefaced with "+"</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
- A network interface name followed by ":"</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
and an address or address range.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Protocol - Must be "tcp", "udp", "icmp",</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">"ipp2p", a number, or "all". "ipp2p"
requires</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ipp2p match support in your kernel and</span><span
style="font-family: monospace;">iptables.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PORT(S)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Destination
Ports. A comma-separated list of</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">Port names (from /etc/services), port<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
numbers</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">or port ranges;
if the protocol is "icmp", this</span><span
style="font-family: monospace;">column is interpreted as the<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
destination</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">icmp-type(s).</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
If the protocol is ipp2p, this column is</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">interpreted as an ipp2p option without
the</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
leading "--" (example "bit" for bit-torrent).</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">If no PORT is given, "ipp2p" is
assumed.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
This column is ignored if PROTOCOL = all but</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">must be entered if any of the following<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
field</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">is supplied. In
that case, it is suggested that</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">this field contain "-"</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SOURCE PORT(S)&nbsp; (Optional) Source port(s). If omitted,</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">any source port is acceptable.
Specified as a</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
comma-separated list of port names, port</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">numbers or port ranges.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
TEST&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Defines a test on the existing packet or</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">connection mark.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The rule will match only if the test returns</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">true. Tests have the format</span><span
style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
[!]&lt;value&gt;[/&lt;mask&gt;][:C]</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Where:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Inverts the test (not equal)</span>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&lt;value&gt; Value of the
packet or</span><span style="font-family: monospace;"><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
connection mark.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;mask&gt;&nbsp; A mask to be applied to the</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">mark before testing</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
:C&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Designates a connection</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">mark. If omitted, the packet</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">mark's value<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
is tested.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The interface that the
packet is to be routed</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">out
of. If you do not specify this<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
field then</span> <span style="font-family: monospace;">you must place
"-" in this column and enter an</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">IP address in the GATEWAY<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
column.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
GATEWAY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The gateway
that the packet is to be forewarded</span> <span
style="font-family: monospace;">through.</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<br style="font-family: monospace;">
</li>
<li>Normally when Shorewall is stopped, starting or restarting then
connections are allowed from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped to the firewall and to other hosts listed
in /etc/shorewall/routestopped.<br>
<br>
A new 'source' option is added for entries in that file which will
cause Shorewall to allow traffic from the host listed in the entry to
ANY other host. When 'source' is specified in an entry, it is
unnecessary to also specify 'routeback'.<br>
<br>
Similarly, a new 'dest' option is added which will cause Shorewall to
allow traffic to the host listed in the entry from ANY other host. When
'source' is specified in an entry, it is unnecessary to also specify
'routeback'.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>This change was implemented by Lorenzo Martignoni. It provides
two new commands: "safe-start" and "safe-restart".<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">safe-start</span> starts Shorewall
then prompts you to ask you if everything looks ok. If you answer "no"
or if you don't answer within 60 seconds, a "shorewall clear" is
executed.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">safe-restart</span> saves your
current configuration to /var/lib/shorewall/safe-restart then issues a
"shorewall restart"; It then prompts you to ask if you if you want to
accept the new configuration. If you answer "no" or if you don't answer
within 60 seconds, the configuration is restored to its prior state.<br>
<br>
These new commands require either that your /bin/sh supports the "-t"
option to the 'read' command or that you have /bin/bash installed.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">05/20/2005&nbsp; Shorewall CVS
Repository has Moved to Sourceforge<br>
<br>
</span> The CVS repository may now be accessed at <a target=
"_top" href=
"http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=22587">http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=22587</a>.<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
05/20/2005 Shorewall 2.2.5<br>
<br>
</span> This will be my last 2.2 release. It contains a couple
of small bug fixes that I hadn't yet released.<br>
<br>
-Tom<br>
<br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Previously, if PKTTYPE=No in shorewall.conf then pkttype
match would still be used if the kernel supported it.</li>
<li>A typo in the 'tunnel' script has been corrected (Thanks
to Patrik Varmecký).</li>
<li>A warning is now generated if an invalid short zone name
is used in /etc/shorewall/zones.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">05/18/2005 Tom stepping away
from Shorewall development and support<br>
</span> <br>
It is with regret that I announce that my involvement in
Shorewall development and support is officially ending.<br>
<br>
Unlike the originators of other successful open source
projects, I have not been able to attract a core of people who
believe in Shorewall and who are willing to make sacrifices to
ensure it's success. That is my weakness and I accept it. But
is means that I have been left with trying to develop,
document, and support Shorewall almost single-handedly. I
cannot do it any more.<br>
<br>
I will clean up what I have for a 2.3 release and place it on
the server as my last Shorewall release -- Shorewall 2.4.0.<br>
<br>
Discussions aimed at continuing Shorewall development under
new leadership are continuing.<br>
<br>
Shorewall will always be a part of my life that I look back on
with fondness.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
-Tom<br>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">05/02/2005 Shorewall
2.2.4<br>
</span></p>
<p>Problems Corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The error message:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: No appropriate
chain for zone &lt;z1&gt; to zone &lt;z2&gt;<br>
<br>
has been changed to one that is more self-explanatory:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: No policy
defined for zone &lt;z1&gt; to zone &lt;z2&gt;</li>
<li>When only an interface name appeared in the HOST(S)
column of an /etc/shorewall/hosts file entry, a misleading
iptables error message resulted. Now the following message is
generated:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Invalid HOST(S)
column contents: &lt;column contents&gt;</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Support has been added for UPnP using linux-igd&nbsp; (<a
href=
"http://linux-idg.sourceforge.net/">http://linux-idg.sourceforge.net</a>).
UPnP is required by a number of popular applications
including MSN IM.</li>
</ol>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">WARNING</span>:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
From a security architecture viewpoint, UPnP is a disaster.
It assumes that:<br>
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
<li>All local systems and their users are completely
trustworthy.</li>
<li>No local system is infected with any worm or
trojan.</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
If either of these assumptions are not true then UPnP can
be used to totally defeat your firewall and to allow
incoming connections to arbitrary local systems on any port
whatsoever.<br>
In short: <span style="font-weight: bold;">USE UPnP AT
YOUR OWN RISK</span>.<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">WARNING</span>:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
The linux-igd project appears to be inactive and the web
site does not display correctly on any open source browser
that I've tried.<br>
<br>
Building and installing linux-igd is not for the faint of
heart. You must download the source from CVS and be
prepared to do quite a bit of fiddling with the include
files from libupnp (which is required to build and/or run
linux-igd).<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
Configuring linux-igd:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
In /etc/upnpd.conf, you will want:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
insert_forward_rules = yes<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
prerouting_chain_name = UPnP<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
forward_chain_name = forwardUPnP<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
Shorewall Configuration:<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
In /etc/shorewall/interfaces, you need the 'upnp' option on
your external interface.<br>
<br>
If your fw-&gt;loc policy is not ACCEPT then you need this
rule:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
allowoutUPnP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc<br>
<br>
Note: To use 'allowoutUPnP', your iptables and kernel must
support the 'owner match' feature (see the output of
"shorewall check").<br>
<br>
If your loc-&gt;fw policy is not ACCEPT then you need this
rule:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
allowinUPnP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw<br>
<br>
You MUST have this rule:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
forwardUPnP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc<br>
<br>
</div>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
&nbsp;&nbsp; You must also ensure that you have a route to
224.0.0.0/4 on you internal (local) interface.<br>
</div>
<ol start="2" style="list-style-type: decimal;">
<li>A new 'started' extension script has been added.&nbsp;
The difference between this extension script and
/etc/shorewall/start is that this one is invoked after
delayed loading of the blacklist (DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD=Yes) and
after the 'shorewall' chain has been created (thus signaling
that the firewall is completely up.<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/started should not change the firewall
configuration directly but may do so indirectly by running
/sbin/shorewall with the 'nolock' option.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>By default, shorewall is started with the "-f" (fast)
option when your system boots. You can override that setting
by setting the OPTIONS variable in /etc/sysconfig/shorewall
(SUSE/Redhat) or /etc/default/shorewall (Debian/Bering). If
neither file exists, feel free to create one or the
other.<br>
<br>
Example: If you want Shorewall to always use the config
files even if there is a saved configuration, then
specify:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OPTIONS=""<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now has support for the SAME target. This
change affects the /etc/shorewall/masq and
/etc/shorewall/rules file.<br>
<br>
SAME is useful when you specify multiple target IP addresses
(in the ADDRESSES column of /etc/shorewall/masq or in the
DEST column of /etc/shorewall/rules).<br>
<br>
If you use normal SNAT then multiple connections from a
given local host to hosts on the internet can be assigned
different source IP addresses. This confuses some
applications that use multiple connections. To correct this
problem, prefix the list of address ranges in the ADDRESS
column with "SAME:"<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Example:&nbsp;&nbsp; SAME:206.124.146.176-206.124.146.180<br>
<br>
If you want each internal system to use the same IP address
from the list regardless of which internet host it is talking
to then prefix the ranges with "SAME:nodst:".<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Example:&nbsp;&nbsp;
SAME:nodst:206.124.146.176-206.124.146.180<br>
<br>
Note that it is not possible to map port numbers when using
SAME.<br>
<br>
In the rules file, when multiple connections from an
internet host match a SAME rule then all of the connections
will be sent to the same internal server. SAME rules are very
similar to DNAT rules with the keyword SAME replacing DNAT.
As in the masq file, changing the port number is not
supported.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A "shorewall show capabilities" command has been added to
report the capabilities of your kernel and iptables.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; gateway:~# shorewall show
capabilities<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Loading
/usr/share/shorewall/functions...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing
/etc/shorewall/params ...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Loading Modules...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shorewall has detected the
following iptables/netfilter capabilities:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Extended Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Connection Tracking Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Packet Type Match: Not available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Policy Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Physdev Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
IP range Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Recent Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Owner Match: Available<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; gateway:~#<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A "-v" option has been added to /sbin/shorewall.
Currently, this option only affects the "show log" command
(e.g., "shorewall -v show log") and the "monitor" command. In
these commands, it causes the MAC address in the log message
(if any) to be displayed. As previously, when "-v" is
omitted, the MAC address is suppressed.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>In /etc/shorewall/rules, a value of 'none' in either the
SOURCE or DEST columns now causes the rule to be ignored.
This is most useful when used with shell variables:<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
AllowFTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
$FTP_CLIENTS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When FTP_CLIENTS
is set to 'none', the above rule is ignored.&nbsp; Otherwise,
the rule is evaluated and generates Netfilter rules.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The installer now detects that it is running on a
Slackware system and adjusts the DEST and INIT variables
accordingly.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">05/01/2005 Tom spoke at
LinuxFest NW 2005 -- Bellingham Technical College, Bellingham
Washington<br>
</span><br>
Tom's presentation was entitled "Shorewall and Native IPSEC"
and is available for download <a href=
"http://shorewall.net/LinuxFest.pdf">here (PDF Format)</a>.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">04/07/2005 Shorewall
2.2.3<br>
</span><br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>If a zone is defined in /etc/shorewall/hosts using
&lt;interface&gt;:!&lt;network&gt; in the HOSTS column then
startup errors occur on "shorewall [re]start".</li>
<li>Previously, if "shorewall status" was run on a system
whose kernel lacked advanced routing support
(CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER),&nbsp; then no routing
information was displayed.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A new extension script "continue" has been added. This
script is invoked after Shorewall has set the built-in filter
chains policy to DROP, deleted any existing Netfilter rules
and user chains and has enabled existing connections. It is
useful for enabling certain communication while Shorewall is
being [re]started. Be sure to delete any rules that you add
here in your /etc/shorewall/start file.</li>
<li>There has been ongoing confusion about how the
/etc/shorewall/routestopped file works. People understand how
it works with the 'shorewall stop' command but when they read
that 'shorewall restart' is logically equivalent to
'shorewall stop' followed by 'shorewall start' then they
erroneously conclude that /etc/shorewall/routestopped can be
used to enable new connections during 'shorewall restart'. Up
to now, it cannot -- that file is not processed during either
'shorewall start' or 'shorewall restart'.<br>
<br>
Beginning with Shorewall version 2.2.3,
/etc/shorewall/routestopped will be processed TWICE during
'shorewall start' and during 'shorewall restart'. It will be
processed early in the command execution to add rules
allowing new connections while the command is running and it
will be processed again when the command is complete to
remove the rules added earlier.<br>
<br>
The result of this change will be that during most of
[re]start, new connections will be allowed in accordance with
the contents of /etc/shorewall/routestopped.</li>
<li>The performance of configurations with a large numbers of
entries in /etc/shorewall/maclist can be improved by setting
the new MACLIST_TTL variable in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.<br>
<br>
If your iptables and kernel support the "Recent Match" (see
the output of "shorewall check" near the top), you can cache
the results of a 'maclist' file lookup and thus reduce the
overhead associated with MAC Verification.<br>
<br>
When a new connection arrives from a 'maclist' interface,
the packet passes through then list of entries for that
interface in /etc/shorewall/maclist. If there is a match then
the source IP address is added to the 'Recent' set for that
interface. Subsequent connection attempts from that IP
address occuring within $MACLIST_TTL seconds will be accepted
without having to scan all of the entries. After $MACLIST_TTL
from the first accepted connection request from an IP
address, the next connection request from that IP address
will be checked against the entire list.<br>
<br>
If MACLIST_TTL is not specified or is specified as empty
(e.g, MACLIST_TTL="" or is specified as zero then 'maclist'
lookups will not be cached.</li>
<li>You can now specify QUEUE as a policy and you can
designate a common action for QUEUE policies in
/etc/shorewall/actions. This is useful for sending packets to
something like Snort Inline.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">03/31/2005 Shorewall
2.0.17<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Invoking the 'rejNotSyn' action results in an error at
startup.</li>
<li>The UDP and TCP port numbers in
/usr/share/shorewall/action.AllowPCA were reversed.</li>
<li>If a zone is defined in /etc/shorewall/hosts using
&lt;<span style=
"font-style: italic;">interface</span>&gt;:!&lt;<span style=
"font-style: italic;">network</span>&gt; in the HOSTS column
then startup errors occur on "shorewall [re]start".<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">03/12/2005 Shorewall 2.2.2<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The SOURCE column in the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file now
correctly allows IP ranges (assuming that your iptables and
kernel support ranges).<br>
</li>
<li>If A is a user-defined action and you have file
/etc/shorewall/A then when that file is invoked by Shorewall
during [re]start, the $TAG value may be incorrect.</li>
<li>Previously, if an iptables command generating a logging
rule failed, the Shorewall [re]start was still successful.
This error is now considered fatal and Shorewall will be
either restored from the last save (if any) or it will be
stopped.</li>
<li>The port numbers for UDP and TCP were previously reversed
in the /usr/share/shorewall/action.AllowPCA file.</li>
<li>Previously, the 'install.sh' script did not update the
/usr/share/shorewall/action.* files.</li>
<li>Previously, when an interface name appeared in the DEST
column of /etc/shorewall/tcrules, the name was not validated
against the set of defined interfaces and bridge ports.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The SOURCE column in the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file now
allows $FW to be optionally followed by ":" and a
host/network address or address range.</li>
<li>Shorewall now clears the output device only if it is a
terminal. This avoids ugly control sequences being placed in
files when /sbin/shorewall output is redirected.</li>
<li>The output from 'arp -na' has been added to the
'shorewall status' display.</li>
<li>The 2.6.11 Linux kernel and iptables 1.3.0 now allow port
ranges to appear in port lists handled by "multiport match".
If Shorewall detects this capability, it will use "multiport
match" for port lists containing port ranges. Be cautioned
that each port range counts for TWO ports and a port list
handled with "multiport match" can still specify a maximum of
15 ports.<br>
<br>
As always, if a port list in /etc/shorewall/rules is
incompatible with "multiport match", a separate iptables rule
will be generated for each element in the list.</li>
<li>Traditionally, the RETURN target in the 'rfc1918' file
has caused 'norfc1918' processing to cease for a packet if
the packet's source IP address matches the rule. Thus, if you
have:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNETS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
TARGET</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
192.168.1.0/24&nbsp;&nbsp; RETURN</span><br>
<br>
then traffic from 192.168.1.4 to 10.0.3.9 will be accepted
even though you also have:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNETS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
TARGET</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
10.0.0.0/8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
logdrop</span><br>
<br>
Setting RFC1918_STRICT=Yes in shorewall.conf will cause such
traffic to be logged and dropped since while the packet's
source matches the RETURN rule, the packet's destination
matches the 'logdrop' rule.<br>
<br>
If not specified or specified as empty (e.g.,
RFC1918_STRICT="") then RFC1918_STRICT=No is assumed.<br>
<br>
WARNING: RFC1918_STRICT=Yes requires that your kernel and
iptables support 'Connection Tracking' match.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">02/15/2005 Shorewall
2.2.1<br>
<br>
</span> This release rolls up the fixes for bugs found in the
first 2-3 weeks of deployment of Shorewall 2.2.<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/policy file contained a misleading
comment and both that file and the /etc/shorewall/zones file
lacked examples.</li>
<li>Shorewall previously used root's default umask which
could cause files in /var/lib/shorewall to be world-readable.
Shorewall now uses umask 0177.</li>
<li>In log messages produced by logging a built-in action,
the packet disposition was displayed incorrectly.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
rejNotSyn:ULOG&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
all&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
all&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; produces the log message:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Feb 12 23:57:08 server Shorewall:rejNotSyn:ULOG: ...<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; rather than<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Feb 12 23:57:08 server Shorewall:rejNotSyn:REJECT: ...<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The comments regarding built-in actions in
/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std have been corrected.</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/policy file in the LRP package was
missing the 'all-&gt;all' policy.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">02/05/2005 End of Support for
Shorewall 1.4<br>
<br>
</span> Effective today, support for Shorewall 1.4 has been
discontinued. See the link at the top of this article for&nbsp;
upgrade information.<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">02/01/2005 Shorewall
2.0.16<br>
</span> <br>
This release back-ports the DROPINVALID shorewall.conf option
from 2.2.0.<br>
<ol>
<li>Recent 2.6 kernels include code that evaluates TCP
packets based on TCP Window analysis. This can cause packets
that were previously classified as NEW or ESTABLISHED to be
classified as INVALID.<br>
<br>
The new kernel code can be disabled by including this
command in your /etc/shorewall/init file:<br>
<br>
echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal<br>
<br>
Additional kernel logging about INVALID TCP packets may be
obtained by adding this command to /etc/shorewall/init:<br>
<br>
echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_log_invalid<br>
<br>
Traditionally, Shorewall has dropped INVALID TCP packets
early. The new DROPINVALID option allows INVALID packets to
be passed through the normal rules chains by setting
DROPINVALID=No.<br>
<br>
If not specified or if specified as empty (e.g.,
DROPINVALID="") then DROPINVALID=Yes is assumed.</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">02/01/2005 Shorewall
2.2.0<br>
<br>
</span> New Features:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>ICMP packets that are in the INVALID state are now
dropped by the Reject and Drop default actions. They do so
using the new 'dropInvalid' builtin action. An 'allowInvalid'
builtin action is also provided which accepts packets in that
state.</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/masq file INTERFACE column now allows
additional options.<br>
<br>
Normally MASQUERADE/SNAT rules are evaluated after
one-to-one NAT rules defined in the /etc/shorewall/nat file.
If you preceed the interface name with a plus sign ("+") then
the rule will be evaluated before one-to-one NAT.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
+eth0<br>
+eth1:192.0.2.32/27<br>
<br>
Also, the effect of ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes can be negated for
an entry by following the interface name by ":" but no
digit.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
eth0:<br>
eth1::192.0.2.32/27<br>
+eth3:<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Similar to 2), the /etc/shorewall/nat file INTERFACE
column now allows you to override the setting of
ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes by following the interface name with ":"
but no digit.</li>
<li>All configuration files in the Shorewall distribution
with the exception of shorewall.conf are now empty. In
particular, the /etc/shorewall/zones, /etc/shorewall/policy
and /etc/shorewall/tos files now have no active entries.
Hopefully this will stop the questions on the support and
development lists regarding why the default entries are the
way they are.</li>
<li>Previously, including a log level (and optionally a log
tag) on a rule that specified a user-defined (or
Shorewall-defined) action would log all traffic passed to the
action. Beginning with this release, specifying a log level
in a rule that specifies a user- or Shorewall-defined action
will cause each rule in the action to be logged with the
specified level (and tag).<br>
<br>
The extent to which logging of action rules occurs is
goverend by the following:</li>
<li style="list-style: none">
<ul>
<li>When you invoke an action and specify a log level,
only those rules in the action that have no log level
will be changed to log at the level specified at the
action invocation.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/action.foo:<br>
<br>
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
bar:info<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
foo:debug&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net<br>
<br>
Logging in the invoked 'foo' action will be:<br>
<br>
ACCEPT:debug&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
bar:info<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>If you follow the log level with "!" then logging
will be at that level for all rules recursively invoked
by the action<br>
<br>
Example: /etc/shorewall/action.foo:<br>
<br>
<b>Update:</b> 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>
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
bar:info<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
foo:debug!&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net<br>
<br>
Logging in the invoke 'foo' action will be:<br>
<br>
ACCEPT:debug&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
-&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
bar:debug!<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ol>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
This change has an effect on extension scripts used with
user-defined actions. If you define an action 'acton' and you
have an /etc/shorewall/acton script then when that script is
invoked, the following three variables will be set for use by
the script:<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
$CHAIN = the name of the chain where your rules are to be
placed. When logging is used on an action invocation,
Shorewall creates a chain with a slightly different name
from the action itself.<br>
$LEVEL = Log level. If empty, no logging was
specified.<br>
$TAG&nbsp;&nbsp; = Log Tag.<br>
<br>
</div>
Example:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
acton:info:test<br>
<br>
Your /etc/shorewall/acton file will be run with:<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
$CHAIN="%acton1<br>
$LEVEL="info"<br>
$TAG="test"<br>
</div>
</div>
<br>
<ol start="6">
<li>The /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled file is no longer
created when Shorewall is first installed. Rather, the
variable STARTUP_ENABLED is set to 'No' in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. In order to get Shorewall to
start, that variable's value must be set to 'Yes'. This
change accomplishes two things:</li>
<li style="list-style: none">
<ul>
<li>It prevents Shorewall from being started prematurely
by the user's initialization scripts.</li>
<li>It causes /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf to be
modified so that it won't be replaced by upgrades using
RPM.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Support has been added for the 2.6 Kernel IPSEC
implementation. To use this support, you must have installed
the IPSEC policy match patch and the four IPSEC/Netfilter
patches from Patch-0-Matic-ng. The policy match patch affects
both your kernel and iptables. There are two ways to specify
that IPSEC is to be used when communicating with a set of
hosts; both methods involve the new /etc/shorewall/ipsec
file:</li>
<li style="list-style: none">
<ol style="list-style-type: lower-alpha;">
<li>If encrypted communication is used with all hosts in
a zone, then you can designate the zone as an "ipsec"
zone by placing 'Yes" in the IPSEC ONLY column in
/etc/shorewall/ipsec:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#ZONE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IPSEC&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OPTIONS
...</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ONLY</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes</span><br>
<br>
The hosts in the zone (if any) must be specified in
/etc/shorewall/hosts but you do not need to specify the
'ipsec' option on the entries in that file (see below).
Dynamic zones involving IPSEC must use that
technique.<br>
<br>
Example:Under 2.4 Kernel FreeS/Wan:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/zones:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The big bad Internet</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
VPN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remote Network</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ipsec0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br>
<br>
Under 2.6 Kernel with this new support:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/zones:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The big bad Internet</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
VPN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remote Network</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/hosts:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0.0.0.0/0</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/ipsec<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yes<br>
<br>
</span></li>
<li>
If only part of the hosts in a zone require encrypted
communication, you may use of the new 'ipsec' option in
/etc/shorewall/hosts to designate those hosts.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
Under 2.4 Kernel FreeS/Wan:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/zones:<br>
<pre>
net Net The big bad Internet<br>
loc Local Extended local zone
</pre>
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ipsec0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br>
<br>
Under 2.6 Kernel with this new support:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/zones:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The big bad
Internet</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp; VPN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Remote Network</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ...</span><br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/hosts:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0.0.0.0/0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipsec,...</span>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
Regardless of which technique you choose, you can specify
additional SA options for the zone in the
/etc/shorewall/ipsec entry.<br>
<br>
The OPTIONS, IN OPTIONS and OUT OPTIONS columns specify the
input-output, input and output characteristics of the
security associations to be used to decrypt (input) or
encrypt (output) traffic to/from the zone.<br>
<br>
The available options are:<br>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 2em">
<ul>
<li>reqid[!]=&lt;number&gt; where &lt;number&gt; is
specified using setkey(8) using the 'unique:&lt;number&gt;'
option for the SPD level.</li>
<li>spi[!]=&lt;number&gt; where &lt;number&gt; is the SPI
of the SA. Since different SAs are used to encrypt and
decrypt traffic, this option should only be listed in the
IN OPTIONS and OUT OPTIONS columns.</li>
<li>proto[!]=ah|esp|ipcomp</li>
<li>mss=&lt;number&gt; (sets the MSS value in TCP SYN
packets and is not related to policy matching)</li>
<li>mode[!]=transport|tunnel</li>
<li>tunnel-src[!]=&lt;address&gt;[/&lt;mask&gt;] (only
available with mode=tunnel)</li>
<li>tunnel-dst[!]=&lt;address&gt;[/&lt;mask&gt;] (only
available with mode=tunnel). Because tunnel source and
destination are dependent on the direction of the traffic,
these options should only appear in the IN OPTIONS and OUT
OPTIONS columns.</li>
<li>strict&nbsp; (if specified, packets must match all
policies; policies are delimited by 'next').</li>
<li>next&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (only available with
strict)</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
Examples:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#ZONE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; IPSEC&nbsp;
OPTIONS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
IN&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
OUT</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ONLY&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OPTIONS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
OPTIONS</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">vpn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Yes&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; mode=tunnel,proto=esp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
spi=1000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; spi=1001</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
No&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; reqid=44,mode=transport</span><br>
<br>
The /etc/shorewall/masq file has a new IPSEC column added.
If you specify Yes or yes in that column then the unencrypted
packets will have their source address changed. Otherwise,
the unencrypted packets will not have their source addresses
changed. This column may also contain a comma-separated list
of the options specified above in which case only those
packets that will be encrypted by an SA matching the given
options will have their source address changed.<br>
</div>
<ol start="8">
<li>To improve interoperability, tunnels of type 'ipsec' no
longer enforce the use of source port 500 for ISAKMP and
OpenVPN tunnels no longer enforce use of the specified port
as both the source and destination ports.</li>
<li>A new 'allowBcast' builtin action has been added -- it
silently allows broadcasts and multicasts.</li>
<li>The -c option in /sbin/shorewall commands is now
deprecated. The commands where -c was previously allowed now
permit you to specify a configuration directory after the
command:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall check&nbsp;&nbsp; [
&lt;configuration-directory&gt; ]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall restart [
&lt;configuration-directory&gt; ]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall start&nbsp;&nbsp; [
&lt;configuration-directory&gt; ]<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Normally, when SNAT or MASQUERADE is applied to a tcp or
udp connection, Netfilter attempts to retain the source port
number. If it has to change to port number to avoid&nbsp;
&lt;source address&gt;,&lt;source port&gt; conflicts, it
tries to do so within port ranges ( &lt; 512, 512-1023, and
&gt; 1023). You may now specify an explicit range of source
ports to be used by following the address or address range
(if any) in the ADDRESS column with ":" and a port range in
the format &lt;low-port&gt;-&lt;high-port&gt;. You must
specify either "tcp" or "udp" in the PROTO column.<br>
<br>
Examples 1 -- MASQUERADE with tcp source ports
4000-5000:<br>
<br>
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
#INTERFACE SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
ADDRESS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PROTO</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.0/24&nbsp;
:4000-5000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<br>
Example 2 -- SNAT with udp source ports 7000-8000:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#INTERFACE SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; ADDRESS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTO</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
10.0.0.0/8&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
192.0.2.44:7000-8000&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
<br>
</span></li>
<li>You may now account by user/group ID for outbound traffic
from the firewall itself with entries in
/etc/shorewall/accounting. Such accounting rules must be
placed in the OUTPUT chain. See the comments at the top of
/etc/shorewall/accounting for details.</li>
<li>Shorewall now verifies that your kernel and iptables have
physdev match support if BRIDGING=Yes in shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>Beginning with this release, if your kernel and iptables
have iprange match support (see the output from "shorewall
check"), then with the exception of the /etc/shorewall/netmap
file, anywhere that a network address may appear an IP
address range of the form &lt;low address&gt;-&lt;high
address&gt; may also appear.</li>
<li>Support has been added for the iptables CLASSIFY target.
That target allows you to classify packets for traffic
shaping directly rather than indirectly through fwmark.
Simply enter the &lt;major&gt;:&lt;minor&gt; classification
in the first column of /etc/shorewall/tcrules:<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">#MARK/&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SOURCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
DEST&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
PROTO&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; PORT(S)</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">#CLASSIFY</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">1:30&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; 25</span><br>
<br>
Note that when using this form of rule, it is acceptable to
include the name of an interface in the DEST column.<br>
<br>
Marking using the CLASSIFY target always occurs in the
POSTROUTING chain of the mangle table and is not affected by
the setting of MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN in shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>During "shorewall start", IP addresses to be added as a
consequence of ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes
are quietly deleted when /etc/shorewall/nat and
/etc/shorewall/masq are processed then they are re-added
later. This is done to help ensure that the addresses can be
added with the specified labels but can have the undesirable
side effect of causing routes to be quietly deleted. A new
RETAIN_ALIASES option has been added to shorewall.conf; when
this option is set to Yes, existing addresses will not be
deleted. Regardless of the setting of RETAIN_ALIASES,
addresses added during "shorewall start" are still deleted at
a subsequent "shorewall stop" or "shorewall restart".</li>
<li>Users with a large black list (from
/etc/shorewall/blacklist) may want to set the new
DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD option in shorewall.conf. When
DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD=Yes, Shorewall will enable new connections
before loading the blacklist rules. While this may allow
connections from blacklisted hosts to slip by during
construction of the blacklist, it can substantially reduce
the time that all new connections are disabled during
"shorewall [re]start".</li>
<li>Using the default LOGFORMAT, chain names longer than 11
characters (such as in user-defined actions) may result in
log prefix truncation. A new shorewall.conf action&nbsp;
LOGTAGONLY has been added to deal with this problem. When
LOGTAGONLY=Yes, logging rules that specify a log tag will
substitute the tag for the chain name in the log prefix.<br>
<br>
Example -- file
/etc/shorewall/action.thisisaverylogactionname:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rule:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span
style=
"font-family: monospace;">DROP:info:ftp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
0.0.0.0/0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.0.0.0/0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 21</span><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Log prefix with LOGTAGONLY=No:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">Shorewall:thisisaverylongacti</span><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Log prefix with LOGTAGONLY=Yes:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span
style="font-family: monospace;">Shorewall:ftp:DROP</span><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now resets the 'accept_source_route' flag for
all interfaces. If you wish to accept source routing on an
interface, you must specify the new 'sourceroute' interface
option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.</li>
<li>The default Drop and Reject actions now invoke the new
standard action 'AllowICMPs'. This new action accepts
critical ICMP types:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Type 3 code 4 (fragmentation needed)<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Type
11&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; (TTL exceeded)<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Explicit control over the kernel's Martian logging is now
provided using the new 'logmartians' interface option. If you
include 'logmartians' in the interface option list then
logging of Martian packets on will be enabled on the
specified interface. If you wish to globally enable martian
logging, you can set LOG_MARTIANS=Yes in shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>You may now cause Shorewall to use the '--set-mss' option
of the TCPMSS target. In other words, you can cause Shorewall
to set the MSS field of SYN packets passing through the
firewall to the value you specify. This feature extends the
existing CLAMPMSS option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf by
allowing that option to have a numeric value as well as the
values "Yes" and "No".<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CLAMPMSS=1400<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now includes support for the ipp2p match
facility. This is a departure from my usual policy in that
the ipp2p match facility is included in Patch-O-Matic-NG and
is unlikely to ever be included in the kernel.org source
tree. Questions about how to install the patch or how to
build your kernel and/or iptables should not be posted on the
Shorewall mailing lists.<br>
<br>
In the following files, the "PROTO" or "PROTOCOL" column may
contain "ipp2p":<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/rules<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/tcrules<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/accounting<br>
<br>
When the PROTO or PROTOCOL column contains "ipp2p" then the
DEST PORT(S) or PORT(S) column may contain a recognized ipp2p
option; for a list of the options and their meaning, at a
root prompt:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables -m ipp2p --help<br>
<br>
You must not include the leading "--" on the option;
Shorewall will supply those characters for you. If you do not
include an option then "ipp2p" is assumed (Shorewall will
generate "-m ipp2p --ipp2p").</li>
<li>Shorewall now has support for the CONNMARK target from
iptables. See the /etc/shorewall/tcrules file for
details.</li>
<li>A new debugging option LOGALLNEW has been added to
shorewall.conf. When set to a log level, this option causes
Shorewall to generaate a logging rule as the first rule in
each builtin chain.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - The table name is used as the chain
name in the log prefix.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - The chain name is used as the target in
the log prefix.<br>
<br>
Example: Using the default LOGFORMAT, the log prefix for
logging from the nat table's PREROUTING chain is:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<span style=
"font-family: monospace;">Shorewall:nat:PREROUTING</span><br>
<br>
IMPORTANT: There is no rate limiting on these logging rules
so use LOGALLNEW at your own risk; it may cause high CPU and
disk utilization and you may not be able to control your
firewall after you enable this option.<br>
<br>
DANGER: DO NOT USE THIS OPTION IF THE RESULTING LOG MESSAGES
WILL BE SENT TO ANOTHER SYSTEM.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The SUBNET column in /etc/shorewall/rfc1918 has been
renamed SUBNETS and it is now possible to specify a list of
addresses in that column.</li>
<li>The AllowNNTP action now also allows NNTP over SSL/TLS
(NNTPS).</li>
<li>For consistency, the CLIENT PORT(S) column in the tcrules
file has been renamed SOURCE PORT(S).</li>
<li>The contents of /proc/sys/net/ip4/icmp_echo_ignore_all is
now shown in the output of "shorewall status".</li>
<li>A new IPTABLES option has been added to shorewall.conf.
IPTABLES can be used to designate the iptables executable to
be used by Shorewall. If not specified, the iptables
executable determined by the PATH setting is used.</li>
<li>You can now use the "shorewall show zones" command to
display the current contents of the zones. This is
particularly useful if you use dynamic zones
(DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes in shorewall.conf).<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">ursa:/etc/shorewall # shorewall
show zones</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Shorewall-2.2.0-Beta7 Zones at ursa - Sat Nov 27 11:18:25 PST
2004</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0:192.168.1.0/24</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1:1.2.3.4</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0:0.0.0.0/0</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
WiFi</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1:0.0.0.0/0</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
sec</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1:0.0.0.0/0</span><br style=
"font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ursa:/etc/shorewall #</span><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Variable expansion may now be used with the INCLUDE
directive.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/params<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">FILE=/etc/foo/bar</span><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any other config
file:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">INCLUDE $FILE</span><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The output of "shorewall status" now includes the results
of "ip -stat link ls". This helps diagnose performance
problems caused by link errors.</li>
<li>Previously, when rate-limiting was specified in
/etc/shorewall/policy (LIMIT:BURST column), any traffic which
exceeded the specified rate was silently dropped. Now, if a
log level is given in the entry (LEVEL column) then drops are
logged at that level at a rate of 5/min with a burst of
5.</li>
<li>Recent 2.6 kernels include code that evaluates TCP
packets based on TCP Window analysis. This can cause packets
that were previously classified as NEW or ESTABLISHED to be
classified as INVALID.<br>
<br>
The new kernel code can be disabled by including this
command in your /etc/shorewall/init file:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal</span><br>
<br>
Additional kernel logging about INVALID TCP packets may be
obtained by adding this command to /etc/shorewall/init:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_log_invalid</span><br>
<br>
Traditionally, Shorewall has dropped INVALID TCP packets
early. The new DROPINVALID option allows INVALID packets to
be passed through the normal rules chains by setting
DROPINVALID=No.<br>
<br>
If not specified or if specified as empty (e.g.,
DROPINVALID="") then DROPINVALID=Yes is assumed.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The "shorewall add" and "shorewall delete" commands now
accept a list of hosts to add or delete.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">shorewall add eth1:1.2.3.4
eth1:2.3.4.5 z12</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall
delete eth1:1.2.3.4 eth1:2.3.4.5 z12</span><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The above commands may also be
written:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">shorewall add eth1:1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5
z12</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall
delete eth1:1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5 z12</span><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
</li>
<li>TCP OpenVPN tunnels are now supported using the 'openvpn'
tunnel type. OpenVPN entries in /etc/shorewall/tunnels have
this format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">openvpn[:{tcp|udp}][:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway&gt;</span><br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <span style=
"font-family: monospace;">openvpn:tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1.2.3.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # TCP tunnel on port 1194</span><br
style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
openvpn:3344&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 1.2.3.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # UDP on port
3344</span><br style="font-family: monospace;">
<span style="font-family: monospace;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
openvpn:tcp:4455&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
1.2.3.4&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; # TCP on port 4455</span><br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecvpn' script is included in the tarball and in
the RPM. The RPM installs the file in the Documentation
directory (/usr/share/doc/packages/shorewall-2.2.0-0RC1).<br>
<br>
This script is intended for use on Roadwarrior laptops for
establishing an IPSEC SA to/from remote networks. The script
has some limitations:</li>
</ol>
<div style="margin-left: 2em">
<ul>
<li>Only one instance of the script may be used at a
time.</li>
<li>Only the first SPD accessed will be instantiated at the
remote gateway. So while the script creates SPDs to/from
the remote gateway and each network listed in the NETWORKS
setting at the front of the script, only one of these may
be used at a time.</li>
</ul>
</div>
<ol start="39">
<li>The output of "shorewall status" now lists the loaded
netfilter kernel modules.</li>
<li>The range of UDP ports opened by the AllowTrcrt action
has been increased to 33434:33524.</li>
<li>The IANA has recently registered port 1194 for use by
OpenVPN. In previous versions of Shorewall (and OpenVPN), the
default port was 5000 but has been changed to 1194 to conform
to the new OpenVPN default.</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">01/17/2005 - Shorewall
2.2.0 RC5<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The AllowTrcrt action has been changed to allow up to 30
hops (same as default for 'traceroute'). Previously, the
action was documented as allowing 20 hops but actually only
allowed for 6 hops.<br>
</li>
<li>Using some lightweight shells, valid entries in
/etc/shorewall/ecn produce startup errors.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A new AllowInvalid standard built-in action has been
added. This action accepts packets that are in the INVALID
connection-tracking state.</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"Mirrors"></a>01/16/2005 - New Shorewall Mirrors<br>
<br>
</span> Thanks to Lorenzo Martignoni and Nick Slikey, there are
now Shorewall <a href="shorewall_mirrors.htm">mirrors</a> in
Milan Italy and in Austin Texas. Thanks Lorenzo and Nick!<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br>
<a name="2_0_15"></a>01/12/2005 - Shorewall 2.0.15<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The range of ports opened by the AllowTrcrt action has
been expanded to 33434:33524 to allow for a maximum of 30
hops.</li>
<li>Code mis-ported from 2.2.0 in release 2.0.14 caused the
following error during "shorewall start" where SYN
rate-limiting is present in /etc/shorewall/policy:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bad argument `DROP'<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or
'iptables --help' for more information.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_RC4"></a>01/06/2005 - Shorewall 2.2.0 RC4<br>
</span> <br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A listing of loaded iptables kernel modules is now
included in the output of "shorewall status".<br>
</li>
</ol>
Problems Corrected.<br>
<ol>
<li>Several problems associated with processing the IPSEC
colummn in /etc/shorewall/masq have been corrected.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_14"></a>01/03/2005 - Shorewall 2.0.14<br>
</span> <br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Previously, when rate-limiting was specified in
/etc/shorewall/policy (LIMIT:BURST column), any traffic which
exceeded the specified rate was silently dropped. Now, if a
log level is given in the entry (LEVEL column) then drops are
logged at that level at a rate of 5/min with a burst of
5.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>A typo in the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file has been
fixed.</li>
<li>"bad variable" error messages occurring during "shorewall
stop" and "shorewall clear" have been eliminated.</li>
<li>A misleading typo in /etc/shorewall/tunnels has been
corrected. The TYPE column for an IPIP tunnel should contain
"ipip" rather than "ip".<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"MandrakeRPMS"></a>12/31/2004 - Mandrake-specific RPMs
available<br>
<br>
</span> Jack Coates has generously volunteered to provide
Shorewall RPMs for use under Mandrake. You can download Jack's
RPMs from <a target="_top" href=
"http://www.monkeynoodle.org/tmp/">http://www.monkeynoodle.org/tmp/</a><br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"Redhat_Fedora"></a>12/31/2004 - Redhat/Fedora-specific RPMs
available<br>
</span> <br>
Simon Matter has graciously volunteered to provide RPMs
tailored for Redhat and Fedora. You can download Simon's RPMs
from <a target="_top" href=
"http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/shorewall/">http://www.invoca.ch/pub/packages/shorewall/</a><br>
<br>
Thanks, Simon!<br>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_RC3"></a>12/30/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 RC3<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The following error message could appear during
"shorewall stop" or "shorewall clear":<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
local: lo:: bad variable name<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The rate limiting example in /etc/shorewall/rules has
been changed to use the RATE LIMIT column.</li>
<li>Entries in /etc/shorewall/masq with the INTERFACE column
containing &lt;ifname&gt;:: (e.g., "eth0::") would generate a
progress message but would not generate an iptables
rule.</li>
<li>A misleading typo in /etc/shorewall/tunnels has been
corrected.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><br>
</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;">12/24/2004 - Shorewall
2.2.0 RC2<br>
<br>
</span> New Features:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>By popular demand, the default port for Open VPN tunnels
is now 1194 (the IANA-reserved port number for Open
VPN).</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_RC1"></a>12/19/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 RC1<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The syntax of the add and delete command has been
clarified in the help summary produced by
/sbin/shorewall.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>
TCP OpenVPN tunnels are now supported using the 'openvpn'
tunnel type. OpenVPN entries in /etc/shorewall/tunnels have
this format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
openvpn[:{tcp|udp}][:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway&gt;<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<pre>
openvpn:tcp net 1.2.3.4 # TCP tunnel on port 5000<br>
openvpn:3344 net 1.2.3.4 # UDP on port 3344<br>
openvpn:tcp:4455 net 1.2.3.4 # TCP on port 4455
</pre>
</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecvpn' script is included in the tarball and in
the RPM. The RPM installs the file in the Documentation
directory (/usr/share/doc/packages/shorewall-2.2.0-0RC1).<br>
<br>
This script is intended for use on Roadwarrior laptops for
establishing an IPSEC SA to/from remote networks. The script
has some limitations:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Only one instance of the script may be
used at a time.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; - Only the first SPD accessed will be
instantiated at the remote gateway. So while the script
creates SPDs to/from the remote gateway and each network
listed in the NETWORKS setting at the front of the script,
only one of these may be used at a time.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta8"></a>12/11/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 8<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>A typo in the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file has been
corrected.</li>
<li>Previously, the "add" and "delete" commands were
generating incorrect policy matches when policy match support
was available.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Recent 2.6 kernels include code that evaluates TCP
packets based on TCP Window analysis. This can cause packets
that were previously classified as NEW or ESTABLISHED to be
classified as INVALID.<br>
<br>
The new kernel code can be disabled by including this
command in your /etc/shorewall/init file:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal<br>
<br>
Additional kernel logging about INVALID TCP packets may be
obtained by adding this command to /etc/shorewall/init:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; echo 1 &gt;
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_log_invalid<br>
<br>
Traditionally, Shorewall has dropped INVALID TCP packets
early. The new DROPINVALID option allows INVALID packets to
be passed through the normal rules chains by setting
DROPINVALID=No.<br>
<br>
If not specified or if specified as empty (e.g.,
DROPINVALID="") then DROPINVALID=Yes is assumed.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The "shorewall add" and "shorewall delete" commands now
accept a list of hosts to add or delete.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall add eth1:1.2.3.4 eth1:2.3.4.5
z12<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall delete eth1:1.2.3.4
eth1:2.3.4.5 z12<br>
<br>
The above commands may also be written:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall add eth1:1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5
z12<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall delete eth1:1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5
z12<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta7"></a>12/04/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 7<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The "shorewall add" and "shorewall delete" commands now
work in a bridged environment. The syntax is:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall add
&lt;interface&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]:&lt;address&gt;
&lt;zone&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall delete
&lt;interface&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]:&lt;address&gt;
&lt;zone&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall add br0:eth2:192.168.1.3 OK<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall delete br0:eth2:192.168.1.3 OK<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, "shorewall save" created an out-of-sequence
restore script. The commands saved in the user's
/etc/shorewall/start script were executed prior to the
Netfilter configuration being restored. This has been
corrected so that "shorewall save" now places those commands
at the end of the script.<br>
<br>
To accomplish this change, the "restore base" file
(/var/lib/shorewall/restore-base) has been split into two
files:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-base -- commands to be executed
before Netfilter the configuration is restored.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-tail -- commands to be executed
after the Netfilter configuration is restored.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, traffic from the firewall to a dynamic zone
member host did not need to match the interface specified
when the host was added to the zone. For example, if
eth0:1.2.3.4 is added to dynamic zone Z then traffic out of
any firewall interface to 1.2.3.4 will obey the fw-&gt;Z
policies and rules. This has been corrected.</li>
<li>Shorewall uses the temporary chain 'fooX1234' to probe
iptables for detrmining which features are supported.
Previously, if that chain happened to exist when Shorewall
was run, capabilities were mis-detected.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>You can now use the "shorewall show zones" command to
display the current contents of the zones. This is
particularly useful if you use dynamic zones
(DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes in shorewall.conf).<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ursa:/etc/shorewall # shorewall show zones<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
Shorewall-2.2.0-Beta7 Zones at ursa - Sat Nov 27 11:18:25 PST
2004<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:1.2.3.4<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0.0.0.0/0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; WiFi<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:0.0.0.0/0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sec<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:0.0.0.0/0<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ursa:/etc/shorewall #<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Variable expansion may now be used with the INCLUDE
directive.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/params<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
FILE=/etc/foo/bar<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any other config
file:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
INCLUDE $FILE<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The output of "shorewall status" now includes the results
of "ip -stat link ls". This helps diagnose performance
problems caused by link errors.</li>
<li>Previously, when rate-limiting was specified in
/etc/shorewall/policy (LIMIT:BURST column), any traffic which
exceeded the specified rate was silently dropped. Now, if a
log<br>
level is given in the entry (LEVEL column) then drops are
logged at that level at a rate of 5/min with a burst of
5.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_13"></a>12/02/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.13<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>
A typo in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall caused the
"shorewall add" to issue an error message:<br>
<pre class="programlisting">
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 1: match_destination_hosts: command not found
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_12"></a>12/01/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.12<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>A typo in shorewall.conf (NETNOTSYN) has been
corrected.</li>
<li>The "shorewall add" and "shorewall delete" commands now
work in a bridged environment. The syntax is:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall add
&lt;interface&gt;[:&lt;bridge port&gt;][:&lt;address&gt;]
&lt;zone&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall delete
&lt;interface&gt;[:&lt;bridge port&gt;][:&lt;address&gt;]
&lt;zone&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Examples:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall add
br0:eth2:192.168.1.3 OK<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall delete
br0:eth2:192.168.1.3 OK<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, "shorewall save" created an out-of-sequence
restore script. The commands saved in the user's
/etc/shorewall/start script were executed prior to the
Netfilter configuration being restored. This has been
corrected so that "shorewall save" now places those commands
at the end of the script.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To accomplish this change, the "restore base" file
(/var/lib/shorewall/restore-base) has been split into two
files:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /var/lib/shorewall/restore-base -- commands to
be executed before the Netfilter configuration is
restored.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /var/lib/shorewall/restore-tail -- commands to
be executed after the Netfilter configuration is
restored.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, traffic from the firewall to a dynamic zone
member host did not need to match the interface specified
when the host was added to the zone. For example, if
eth0:1.2.3.4 is added to dynamic zone Z then traffic out of
any firewall interface to 1.2.3.4 will obey the fw-&gt;Z
policies and rules. This has been corrected.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Variable expansion may now be used with the INCLUDE
directive.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/etc/shorewall/params<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
FILE=/etc/foo/bar<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Any other config
file:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
INCLUDE $FILE<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta6"></a>11/26/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 6<br>
<br>
</span> Beta 5 was more or less DOA. Here's Beta 6.<br>
<br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Fixed a number of problems associated with not having an
IPTABLES value assigned in shorewall.conf</li>
<li>Corrected a 'duplicate chain' error on "shorewall add"
when the 'mss' option is present in /etc/shorewall/ipsec.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta5"></a>11/26/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 5<br>
</span> <br>
Problems corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>A typo in shorewall.conf (NETNOTSYN) has been
corrected.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>For consistency, the CLIENT PORT(S) column in the tcrules
file has been renamed SOURCE PORT(S).</li>
<li>The contents of /proc/sys/net/ip4/icmp_echo_ignore_all is
now shown in the output of "shorewall status".</li>
<li>A new IPTABLES option has been added to shorewall.conf.
IPTABLES can be used to designate the iptables executable to
be used by Shorewall. If not specified, the iptables
executable determined by the PATH setting is used.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_11"></a>11/23/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.11<br>
</span> <br>
Problems corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The INSTALL file now include special instructions for
Slackware users.</li>
<li>The bogons file has been updated.</li>
<li>Service names are replaced by port numbers in
/etc/shorewall/tos.</li>
<li>A typo in the install.sh file that caused an error during
a new install has been corrected.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The AllowNNTP action now allows NNTP over SSL/TLS
(NTTPS).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta4"></a>11/19/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 4<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>A cut and paste error resulted in some nonsense in the
description of the IPSEC column in /etc/shorewall/masq.</li>
<li>A typo in /etc/shorewall/rules has been corrected.</li>
<li>The bogons file has been updated.</li>
<li>The "shorewall add" command previously reported success
but did nothing -- now it works.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The AllowNNTP action now allows NNTP over SSL/TLS
(NNTPS).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta3"></a>11/09/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 3<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>Missing '#' in the rfc1918 file has been corrected.</li>
<li>The INSTALL file now includes special instructions for
Slackware users.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>
In CLASSIFY rules (/etc/shorewall/tcrules), an interface
name may now appear in the DEST column as in:<br>
<pre>
#MARK/ SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT(S)<br>
#CLASSIFY<br>
1:30 - eth0 tcp 25
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta2"></a>11/02/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 2<br>
<br>
</span> Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The "shorewall check" command results in the (harmless)
error message:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 2753:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
check_dupliate_zones: command not found<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The AllowNTP standard action now allows outgoing
responses to broadcasts.</li>
<li>A clarification has been added to the hosts file's
description of the 'ipsec' option pointing out that the
option is redundent if the zone named in the ZONE column has
been designated an IPSEC zone in the /etc/shorewall/ipsec
file.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The SUBNET column in /etc/shorewall/rfc1918 has been
renamed SUBNETS and it is now possible to specify a list of
addresses in that column.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_10"></a>10/25/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.10<br>
</span> <br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>The GATEWAY column was previously ignored in 'pptpserver'
entries in /etc/shorewall/tunnels.</li>
<li>When log rule numbers are included in the LOGFORMAT,
duplicate rule numbers could previously be generated.</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/tcrules file now includes a note to
the effect that rule evaluation continues after a match.</li>
<li>The error message produced if Shorewall couldn't obtain
the routes through an interface named in the SUBNET column of
/etc/shorewall/masq was less than helpful since it didn't
include the interface name.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The "shorewall status" command has been enhanced to
include the values of key /proc settings:<br>
<br>
Example from a two-interface firewall:<br>
<br>
/proc<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward = 1<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/proxy_arp = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/arp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/all/rp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/proxy_arp =
0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/arp_filter =
0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/default/rp_filter =
0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/proxy_arp = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/arp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth0/rp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/proxy_arp = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/arp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/eth1/rp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/proxy_arp = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/arp_filter = 0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/lo/rp_filter = 0<br>
</li>
</ol>
<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_2_0_Beta1"></a>10/24/2004 - Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta1<br>
<br>
</span> The first beta in the 2.2 series is now available.
Download location is:<br>
<br>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1">
http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1</a><br>
<a target="_top" href=
"ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1">
ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1</a><br>
</div>
<p>The features available in this release and the migration
considerations are covered in the <a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/2.2-Beta/shorewall-2.2.0-Beta1/releasenotes.txt">
release notes</a>. Highlights include:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The behavior produced by specifying a log level in an
action invocation is now much more rational. Previously, all
packets sent to the action were logged; now each rule within
the invoked action behaves as if logging had been specified
on it.</li>
<li>Support for the 2.6 Kernel's native IPSEC implementation
is now available.</li>
<li>Support for ipp2p is included.</li>
<li>Support for the iptables CONNMARK facility is now
included in Shorewall.</li>
<li>A new LOGALLNEW option facilitates problem analysis.</li>
<li>Users with a large static blacklist can now defer loading
the blacklist until after the rest of the ruleset has been
enabled. Doing so can decrease substantially the amount of
time that connections are disabled during <span style=
"font-weight: bold;">shorewall [re]start</span>.</li>
<li>Support for the iptables 'iprange match' feature has been
enabled. Users whose kernel and iptables contain this feature
can use ip address ranges in most places in their Shorewall
configuration where a CIDR netowrk can be used.</li>
<li>Accepting of source routing and martian logging may now
be enabled/disabled on each interface.</li>
<li>Shorewall now supports the CLASSIFY iptable target.</li>
</ol>
<p><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a name=
"2_0_9"></a>9/23/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.9<br>
</span><br>
Problems Corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Previously, an empty PROTO column or a value of "all" in
that column would cause errors when processing the
/etc/shorewall/tcrules file.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The "shorewall status" command now includes the output of
"brctl show" if the bridge tools are installed.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="SupportChange"><b>9/20/2004 – Change in Shorewall
Support</b></a></p>
<p style="">Friends,</p>
<p style="">The demands that my job and my personal life are
currently placing on me are such that supporing Shorewall to
the extent that I have been doing is just not possible any
more.</p>
<p style="">I will continue to be active on the development
list and will continue to develop Shorewall if at all
possible.</p>
<p style="">I will also continue to read the user's list and
will help with problems that interest me. But I am no longer
going to hop on every problem as soon as I see it.</p>
<p style="">This change means that I'm going to have to depend
on you folks to help each other; I'm confident that we can make
this work.</p>
<p><a name="2_0_8"></a><b>8/22/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.8<br>
</b><br>
Problems Corrected:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Entries in the USER/GROUP column of an action file (made
from action.template) may be ignored or cause odd
errors.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="2_0_7"></a><b>7/29/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.7<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The PKTTYPE option
introduced in version 2.0.6 is now used when generating
rules to REJECT packets. Broadcast packets are silently
dropped rather than being rejected with an ICMP (which is a
protocol violation) and users whose kernels have broken
packet type match support are likely to see messages
reporting this violation. Setting PKTTYPE=No should cause
these messages to cease.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Multiple interfaces with the
'blacklist' option no longer result in an error message at
startup.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The following has been added to
/etc/shorewall/bogons:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0.0.0.0&nbsp;&nbsp;
RETURN<br>
<br>
This prevents the 'nobogons' option from logging DHCP
'DISCOVER' broadcasts.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>New Features:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>To improve supportability, the "shorewall status"
command now includes IP and Route configuration
information.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">IP
Configuration</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">1: lo:
&lt;LOOPBACK,UP&gt; mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd
00:00:00:00:00:00</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">inet
127.0.0.1/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host lo</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">inet6 ::1/128 scope host</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">2: eth0:
&lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 1000</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/ether 00:a0:c9:15:39:78 brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fe15:3978/64 scope
link</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">3: eth1:
&lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 1000</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/ether 00:a0:c9:a7:d7:bf brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">inet6 fe80::2a0:c9ff:fea7:d7bf/64 scope
link</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">5: sit0@NONE:
&lt;NOARP&gt; mtu 1480 qdisc noop</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/sit 0.0.0.0 brd 0.0.0.0</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">6: eth2:
&lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,PROMISC,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast qlen 1000</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/ether 00:40:d0:07:3a:1b brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">inet6 fe80::240:d0ff:fe07:3a1b/64 scope
link</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">7: br0:
&lt;BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP&gt; mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">link/ether 00:40:d0:07:3a:1b brd
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">inet
192.168.1.3/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global
br0</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">inet6 fe80::240:d0ff:fe07:3a1b/64 scope
link</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">Routing
Rules</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face=
"monospace">0:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; from all
lookup local</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">32765:&nbsp; from all
fwmark&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ca lookup
www.out</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">32766:&nbsp; from all
lookup main</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">32767:&nbsp; from all
lookup default</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">Table
local:</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">broadcast 192.168.1.0
dev br0&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope link&nbsp; src
192.168.1.3</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">broadcast
127.255.255.255 dev lo&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope
link&nbsp; src 127.0.0.1</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">local 192.168.1.3 dev
br0&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope host&nbsp; src
192.168.1.3</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">broadcast
192.168.1.255 dev br0&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope
link&nbsp; src 192.168.1.3</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">broadcast 127.0.0.0
dev lo&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope link&nbsp; src
127.0.0.1</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">local 127.0.0.1 dev
lo&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope host&nbsp; src
127.0.0.1</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">local 127.0.0.0/8 dev
lo&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope host&nbsp; src
127.0.0.1</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">Table
www.out:</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">default via
192.168.1.3 dev br0</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">Table main:</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">192.168.1.0/24 dev
br0&nbsp; proto kernel&nbsp; scope link&nbsp; src
192.168.1.3</font><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">default via
192.168.1.254 dev br0</font><br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; <font face="monospace">Table
default:</font></p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="2_0_6"></a><b>7/16/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.6<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Some users have reported the
packet type match option in iptables/Netfilter failing to
match certain broadcast packets. The result is that the
firewall log shows a lot of broadcast packets.<br>
<br>
Other users have complained of the following message when
starting Shorewall:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
modprobe: cant locate module ipt_pkttype<br>
<br>
Users experiencing either of these problems can use
PKTTYPE=No in shorewall.conf to cause Shorewall to use IP
address filtering of broadcasts rather than packet
type.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The shorewall.conf and zones
file are no longer given execute permission by the
installer script.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>ICMP packets that are in the INVALID state are now
dropped by the Reject and Drop default actions. They do so
using the new 'dropInvalid' builtin action.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="2_0_5"></a><b>7/10/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.5<br>
</b><br>
Problems Corrected:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If DISABLE_IPV6=Yes in
shorewall.conf then harmless error messages referring to
$RESTOREBASE are generated during <b>shorewall
stop</b>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>An anachronistic comment concerning a mangle option has
been removed from shorewall.conf.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="2_0_4"></a><b>7/06/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.4<br>
</b><br>
Problems Corrected:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Rules with $FW as the source zone and that specify
logging can cause "shorewall start" to fail.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p><a name="Release_Model"></a><b>7/03/2004 - New Shorewall
Release Model<br>
<br>
</b> Effective today, Shorewall is adopting a new release model
which takes ideas from the one used in the Linux Kernel and
from the release model for Postfix.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Releases continue to have a
three-level identification <i>x.y.z</i> (e.g., 2.0.3).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The first two levels
(<i>x.y)</i> designate the <i>Major Release Number</i>
(e.g., 2.0)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The third level (<i>z</i>)
designates the <i>Minor Release Number</i>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Even numbered major releases
(e.g., <i>1.4, 2.0, 2.2, ...)</i> are <i>Stable
Releases</i>. No new features are added to stable releases
and new minor releases of a stable release will only
contain bug fixes. Installing a new minor release for the
major release that you are currently running involves no
migration issues (for example, if you are running 1.4.10
and I release 1.4.11, your current configuration is 100%
compatible with the new release).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Support is available through
the <a href="http://lists.shorewall.net/">Mailing List</a>
for the two most recent Stable Releases.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Odd numbered major releases
(e.g., 2.1, 2.3, ...) are <i>Development Releases</i>.
Development releases are where new functionality is
introduced. Documentation for new features will be
available but it may not be up to the standards of the
stable release documentation. Sites running Development
Releases should be prepared to play an active role in
testing new features. Bug fixes and problem resolution for
the development release take a back seat to support of the
stable releases. Problem reports for the current
development release should be sent to the <a href=
"mailto:shorewall-devel@lists.shorewall.net">Shorewall
Development Mailing List</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When the level of
functionality of the current development release is judged
adaquate, the Beta period for a new Stable release will
begin. Beta releases have identifications of the form
<i>x.y.0-BetaN</i> where <i>x.y</i> is the number of the
next Stable Release and <i>N</i>=1,2,3... . Betas are
expected to occur rougly once per year. Beta releases may
contain new functionality not present in the previous beta
release (e.g., 2.2.0-Beta4 may contain functionality not
present in 2.2.0-Beta3). When I'm confident that the
current Beta release is stable, I will release the first
<i>Release Candidate.</i> Release candidates have
identifications of the form <i>x.y.0-RCn</i> where
<i>x.y</i> is the number of the next Stable Release and
<i>n</i>=1,2,3... . Release candidates contain no new
functionailty -- they only contain bug fixes. When the
stability of the current release candidate is judged to be
sufficient then that release candidate will be released as
the new stable release (e.g., 2.2.0). At that time, the new
stable release and the prior stable release are those that
are supported.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What does it mean for a
major release to be <i>supported?</i> It means that I will
answer questions about the release and that if a bug is
found, I will fix the bug and include the fix in the next
minor release.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Between minor releases, bug fixes will continue to be
made available through the Errata page for each major
release.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>The immediate implications of this change are as
follows:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The functionality of the 2.0
major release is frozen at the level of minor release
2.0.3.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The two major releases
currently supported are 1.4 and 2.0.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">I will be opening the 2.1
development release shortly with the release of 2.1.0.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Bug-fix releases with identifications of the form
<i>x.y.zX</i> where X=a,b,c,... (e.g., 2.0.3c) will not be
seen in the future.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="2_0_3c"></a><b>7/02/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.3c<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected<b>:</b></p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Error messages regarding
$RESTOREBASE occur during <b>shorewall stop</b></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>If CLEAR_TC=Yes in <tt>shorewall.conf</tt>, <b>shorewall
stop</b> fails without removing the lock file.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="2_0_3b"></a><b><br>
6/30/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.3b and Shorewall 1.4.10g<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The security vulnerability
fix released in Shorewall 2.0.3a failed under Slackware
9.1.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The security vulnerability fix released in Shorewall
2.0.3a failed if mktemp was not installed.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><a name="2_0_3a"></a><b>6/28/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.3a and
Shorewall 1.4.10f<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Javier Fernández-Sanguino
Peña has discovered an exploitable vulnerability in the way
that Shorewall handles temporary files and directories. The
vulnerability can allow a non-root user to cause arbitrary
files on the system to be overwritten. LEAF Bering and
Bering uClibc users are generally not at risk due to the
fact that LEAF boxes do not typically allow logins by
non-root users.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>(2.0.3a only) A non-empty DEST entry in
/etc/shorewall/tcrules will generate an error and Shorewall
fails to start.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p style="margin-left: 0.42in;">Note:: Slackware users may need
the 'functions' file from CVS (STABLE/ project for 1.4.10f and
STABLE2/ project for 2.0.3a) to prevent startup errors with
these versions installed. These updatged files are also
available from the Errata (<a href="errata.htm">2.0,</a> <a
href="1.4/errata.htm">1.4</a>).</p>
<p><a name="2_0_3"></a><b>6/23/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.3<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The 'firewall' script is not
purging temporary restore files in /var/lib/shorewall.
These files have names of the form "restore-nnnnn".</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The
/var/lib/shorewall/restore script did not load the kernel
modules specified in /etc/shorewall/modules.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Specifying a null common
action in /etc/shorewall/actions (e.g., :REJECT) results in
a startup error.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">If /var/lib/shorewall does
not exist, shorewall start fails.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">DNAT rules with a dynamic
source zone don't work properly. When used, these rules
cause the rule to be checked against ALL input, not just
input from the designated zone.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The install.sh script
reported installing some files in /etc/shorewall when the
files were actually installed in /usr/share/shorewall.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Shorewall checks netfilter
capabilities before loading kernel modules. Hence if kernel
module autoloading isn't enabled, the capabilities will be
misdetected.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The 'newnotsyn' option in
/etc/shorewall/hosts has no effect.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The file
/etc/init.d/shorewall now gets proper ownership when the
RPM is built by a non-root user.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Rules that specify bridge
ports in both the SOURCE and DEST columns no longer cause
"shorewall start" to fail.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Comments in the rules file
have been added to advise users that "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST column does not affect intra-zone traffic.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>With BLACKLISTNEWONLY=Yes, ICMP packets with state
INVALID are now passed through the blacklisting chains.
Without this change, it is not possible to blacklist hosts
that are mounting certain types of ICMP-based DOS
attacks.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Issues when migrating from Shorewall 2.0.2 to Shorewall
2.0.3:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>The 'dropNonSyn' standard builtin action has been
replaced with the 'dropNotSyn' standard builtin action. The
old name can still be used but will generate a warning.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>New Features:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Shorewall now supports
multiple saved configurations.</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The default saved
configuration (restore script) in /var/lib/shorewall is
now specified using the RESTOREFILE option in
shorewall.conf. If this variable isn't set then to
maintain backward compatibility, 'restore' is
assumed.<br>
<br>
The value of RESTOREFILE must be a simple file name;
no slashes ("/") may be included.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The "save" command has
been extended to be able to specify the name of a saved
configuration.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall save [ &lt;file name&gt; ]<br>
<br>
The current state is saved to
/var/lib/shorewall/&lt;file name&gt;. If no &lt;file
name&gt; is given, the configuration is saved to the
file determined by the RESTOREFILE setting.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The "restore" command
has been extended to be able to specify the name of a
saved configuration:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall restore [ &lt;file name&gt; ]<br>
<br>
The firewall state is restored from
/var/lib/shorewall/&lt;file name&gt;. If no &lt;file
name&gt; is given, the firewall state is restored from
the file determined by the RESTOREFILE setting.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The "forget" command has
changed. Previously, the command unconditionally
removed the /var/lib/shorewall/save file which records
the current dynamic blacklist. The "forget" command now
leaves that file alone.<br>
<br>
Also, the "forget" command has been extended to be
able to specify the name of a saved configuration:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
shorewall forget [ &lt;file name&gt; ]<br>
<br>
The file /var/lib/shorewall/&lt;file name&gt; is
removed. If no &lt;file name&gt; is given, the file
determined by the RESTOREFILE setting is removed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The "shorewall -f start"
command restores the state from the file determined by
the RESTOREFILE setting.</p>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">"!" is now allowed in
accounting rules.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Interface names appearing
within the configuration are now verified. Interface names
must match the name of an entry in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces (or if bridging is enabled, they
must match the name of an entry in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces or the name of a bridge port
appearing in /etc/shorewall/hosts).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A new 'rejNotSyn' built-in
standard action has been added. This action responds to
"New not SYN" packets with an RST.<br>
<br>
The 'dropNonSyn' action has been superceded by the new
'dropNotSyn' action. The old name will be accepted until
the next major release of Shorewall but will generate a
warning.<br>
<br>
Several new logging actions involving "New not SYN"
packets have been added:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
logNewNotSyn&nbsp; -- logs the packet with disposition =
LOG<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dLogNewNotSyn
-- logs the packet with disposition = DROP<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rLogNewNotSyn
-- logs the packet with disposition = REJECT<br>
<br>
The packets are logged at the log level specified in the
LOGNEWNOTSYN option in shorewall.conf. If than option is
empty or not specified, then 'info' is assumed.<br>
<br>
Examples (In all cases, set NEWNOTSYN=Yes in
shorewall.conf):</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">To simulate the behavior
of NEWNOTSYN=No:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Add 'NoNewNotSyn' to
/etc/shorewall/actions.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Create /etc/shorewall/action.NoNewNotSyn
containing:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
dLogNotSyn<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
dropNotSyn</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Early in your rules file, place:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NoNewNotSyn&nbsp;&nbsp; all&nbsp;&nbsp;
all&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp</p>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Drop 'New not SYN'
packets from the net only. Don't log them:</p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>Early in your rules file, place:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
dropNotSyn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
all&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp</p>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>
<p>Slackware users no longer have to modify the install.sh
script before installation. Tuomo Soini has provided a
change that allows the INIT and FIREWALL variables to be
specified outside the script as in:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DEST=/etc/rc.d
INIT=rc.firewall ./install.sh</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>6/3/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2f<br>
</b></p>
<p>Fixes one problem:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Versions 2.0.2d and 2.0.2e fail to load kernel modules
unless MODULE_SUFFIX is set in shorewall.conf<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>6/2/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2e<br>
</b></p>
<p>One problem corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>LOG rules within an action generate two Netfilter logging
rules.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/28/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2d<br>
</b><br>
One problem corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall was checking capabilities before loading kernel
modules. Consequently, if kernel module autoloading was
disabled, the capabilities were mis-detected.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/21/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2c</b></p>
One problem corrected:<br>
<ol>
<li>&nbsp;DNAT rules with a dynamic source zone don't work
properly. When used, these rules cause the rule to be checked
against ALL input,&nbsp; not just input from the designated
zone.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/18/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2b</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects two problems:</p>
<ol>
<li>Specifying a null common action in /etc/shorewall/actions
(e.g., :REJECT) results in a startup error.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>If /var/lib/shorewall does not exist, shorewall start
fails.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/15/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2a</b><br>
</p>
<p>Corrects two problems:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Temporary restore files were not being removed from
/var/lib/shorewall. These files have names of the form
'restore-nnnnn'.&nbsp; You can remove files that have
accumulated with the command:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;rm -f
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-[0-9]*<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The restore script did not load kernel modules. The
result was that after a cold load, applications like FTP and
IRC DCC didn't work.<br>
<br>
To correct:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;1) Install 2.0.2a<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;2) "shorewall restart"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;3) "shorewall save"</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/13/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.2</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Problems Corrected since 2.0.1<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The /etc/init.d/shorewall script installed on Debian by
install.sh failed silently due to a missing file
(/usr/share/shorewall/wait4ifup). That file is not part of
the normal Shorewall distribution and is provided by the
Debian maintainer.</li>
<li>A meaningless warning message out of the proxyarp file
processing has been eliminated.</li>
<li>The "shorewall delete" command now correctly removes all
dynamic rules pertaining to the host(s) being deleted. Thanks
to Stefan Engel for this correction.</li>
</ol>
Issues when migrating from Shorewall 2.0.1 to Shorewall
2.0.2:<br>
<ol>
<li>Extension Scripts -- In order for extension scripts to
work properly with the new iptables-save/restore integration
(see New Feature 1 below), some change may be required to
your extension scripts. If your extension scripts are
executing commands other than iptables then those commands
must also be written to the restore file (a temporary file in
/var/lib/shorewall that is renamed
/var/lib/shorewall/restore-base at the end of the
operation).<br>
<br>
The following functions should be of help:<br>
<br>
A. save_command() -- saves the passed command to the restore
file.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; save_command echo
Operation Complete<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; That command would simply write "echo Operation
Complete" to the restore file.<br>
<br>
B. run_and_save_command() -- saves the passed command to the
restore file then executes it. The return value is the exit
status of the command.<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; run_and_save_command
"echo 1 &gt; /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_all"<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Note that as in this example, when the
command involves file redirection then the entire command
must be enclosed in quotes. This applies to all of the
functions described here.<br>
<br>
C. ensure_and_save_command() -- runs the passed command. If
the command fails, the firewall is restored to it's prior
saved state and the operation is terminated. If the command
succeeds, the command is written to the restore file.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Dynamic Zone support -- If you don't need to use the
"shorewall add" and "shorewall delete commands, you should
set DYNAMIC_ZONES=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall has now been integrated with
iptables-save/iptables-restore to provide very fast start and
restart. The elements of this integration are as follows:<br>
<br>
a) The 'shorewall save' command now saves the current
configuration in addition to the current dynamic blacklist.
If you have dynamic zones, you will want to issue 'shorewall
save' when the zones are empty or the current contents of the
zones will be restored by the 'shorewall restore' and
'shorewall -f start' commands.<br>
<br>
b) The 'shorewall restore' command has been added. This
command restores the configuration at the time of the last
'save'.<br>
<br>
c) The -f (fast) option has been added to 'shorewall start'.
When specified (e.g. 'shorewall -f start'), shorewall will
perform a 'shorewall restore' if there is a saved
configuration. If there is no saved configuration, a normal
'shorewall start' is performed.<br>
<br>
d) The /etc/init.d/shorewall script now translates the
'start' command into 'shorewall -f start' so that fast
restart is possible.<br>
<br>
e) When a state-changing command encounters an error and
there is current saved configuration, that configuration will
be restored (currently, the firewall is placed in the
'stopped' state).<br>
<br>
f) If you have previously saved the running configuration
and want Shorewall to discard it, use the 'shorewall forget'
command. WARNING: iptables 1.2.9 is broken with respect to
iptables-save; if your kernel has connection tracking match
support, you must patch iptables 1.2.9 with the iptables
patch availale from the Shorewall errata page.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The previous implementation of dynamic zones was
difficult to maintain. I have changed the code to make
dynamic zones optional under the control of the DYNAMIC_ZONES
option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>In earlier Shorewall 2.0 releases, Shorewall searches in
order the following directories for configuration files.<br>
<br>
a) The directory specified in a 'try' command or specified
using the -c option.<br>
b) /etc/shorewall<br>
c) /usr/share/shorewall<br>
<br>
In this release, the CONFIG_PATH option is added to
shorewall.conf. CONFIG_PATH contains a list of directory
names separated by colons (":"). If not set or set to a null
value (e.g., CONFIG_PATH="") then
"CONFIG_PATH=/etc/shorewall:/usr/share/shorewall" is assumed.
Now Shorewall searches for shorewall.conf according to the
old rules and for other configuration files as follows:<br>
<br>
a) The directory specified in a 'try' command or specified
using the -c option.<br>
b) Each directory in $CONFIG_PATH is searched in
sequence.<br>
<br>
In case it is not obvious, your CONFIG_PATH should include
/usr/share/shorewall and your shorewall.conf file must be in
the directory specified via -c or in a try command, in
/etc/shorewall or in /usr/share/shorewall.<br>
<br>
For distribution packagers, the default CONFIG_PATH is set
in /usr/share/shorewall/configpath. You can customize this
file to have a default that differs from mine.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, in /etc/shorewall/nat a Yes (or yes) in the
LOCAL column would only take effect if the ALL INTERFACES
column also contained Yes or yes. Now, the LOCAL columns
contents are treated independently of the contents of the ALL
INTERFACES column.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The folks at Mandrake have created yet another kernel
module naming convention (module names end in "ko.gz"). As a
consequence, beginning with this release, if MODULE_SUFFIX
isn't specified in shorewall.conf, then the default value is
"o gz ko o.gz ko.gz".<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An updated bogons file is included in this release.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>In /etc/shorewall/rules and in action files generated
from /usr/share/shorewall/action.template, rules that perform
logging can specify an optional "log tag". A log tag is a
string of alphanumeric characters and is specified by
following the log level with ":" and the log tag.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT:info:ftp
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 21<br>
<br>
The log tag is appended to the log prefix generated by the
LOGPREFIX variable in /etc/shorewall/conf. If "ACCEPT:info"
generates the log prefix "Shorewall:net2dmz:ACCEPT:" then
"ACCEPT:info:ftp" will generate "Shorewall:net2dmz:ACCEPT:ftp
" (note the trailing blank). The maximum length of a log
prefix supported by iptables is 29 characters; if a larger
prefix is generated, Shorewall will issue a warning message
and will truncate the prefix to 29 characters.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A new "-q" option has been added to /sbin/shorewall
commands. It causes the start, restart, check and refresh
commands to produce much less output so that warning messages
are more visible (when testing this change, I discovered a
bug where a bogus warning message was being generated).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now uses 'modprobe' to load kernel modules if
that utility is available in the PATH; otherwise, 'insmod' is
used.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>It is now possible to restrict entries in the
/etc/shorewall/masq file to particular protocols and
destination port(s). Two new columns (PROTO and PORT(S)) have
been added to the file.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
You want all outgoing SMTP traffic entering the firewall on
eth1 to be sent from eth0 with source IP address
206.124.146.177. You want all other outgoing traffic from
eth1 to be sent from eth0 with source IP address
206.124.146.176.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 206.124.146.177
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 25<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
206.124.146.176<br>
<br>
THE ORDER OF THE ABOVE TWO RULES IS SIGNIFICANT!!!!!<br>
<br>
Assuming that 10.0.0.0/8 is the only host/network connected
to eth1, the progress message at "shorewall start" would
be:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Masqueraded Networks and Hosts:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To 0.0.0.0/0 (tcp 25)
from 10.0.0.0/8 through eth0 using 206.124.146.177<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To 0.0.0.0/0 (all) from
10.0.0.0/8 through eth0 using 206.124.146.176<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Two new actions are available in the /etc/shorewall/rules
file.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT+&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -- Behaves like
ACCEPT with the exception that it exempts matching
connections from subsequent DNAT[-] and REDIRECT[-]
rules.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; NONAT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; --
Exempts matching connections from subsequent DNAT[-] and
REDIRECT[-] rules.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A new extension script 'initdone' has been added. This
script is invoked at the same point as the 'common' script
was previously and is useful for users who mis-used that
script under Shorewall 1.x (the script was intended for
adding rules to the 'common' chain but many users treated it
as a script for adding rules before Shorewall's).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Installing/Upgrading Shorewall on Slackware has been
improved. Slackware users must use the tarball and must
modify settings in the install.sh script before running it as
follows:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DEST="/etc/rc.d"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; INIT="rc.firewall"<br>
<br>
Thanks to Alex Wilms for helping with this change.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>4/17/2004 - Presentation at LinuxFest NW</b><b><br>
</b></p>
Today I gave a presentation at LinuxFest NW in Bellingham. The
presentation was entitled "<a href=
"http://lists.shorewall.net/Shorewall_and_the_Enterprise.htm"
target="_blank">Shorewall and the Enterprise</a>" and described
the history of Shorewall and gave an overview of its features.
<p><b>4/5/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.1</b><br>
</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</li>
</ol>
<p><b>3/14/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.0b&nbsp;</b></p>
Corrects two problems:<br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Sean Mathews, the long-standing problem with
Proxy ARP and IPSEC has been eliminated!</li>
<li>The default value of the ALL INTERFACES column in
/etc/shorewall/nat is documented as 'No' but the default
continued to be 'Yes' as it was in Shorewall 1.4.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>3/14/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.0a&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects one problem:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>Rules of the form:<br>
<br>
&lt;action&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
zone1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; zone2<br>
<br>
generated a warning stating that the rule was a policy.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/14/2004 - Shorewall 2.0.0</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p>Dedicated to Agnes Van Slyke Eastep: March 14, 1910 -
February 23, 2004<br>
</p>
<p>Problems Corrected since 1.4.10<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A blank USER/GROUP column in /etc/shorewall/tcrules no
longer causes a [re]start error.</li>
<li>The 'fgrep' utility is no longer required (caused startup
problems on LEAF/Bering).</li>
<li>The "shorewall add" command no longer inserts rules
before checking of the blacklist.</li>
<li>The 'detectnets' and 'routeback' options may now be used
together with the intended effect.</li>
<li>The following syntax previously produced an error:<br>
<br>
DNAT&nbsp; z1!z2,z3&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
z4...<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Problems Corrected since RC2<br>
<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>CONTINUE rules now work again.</li>
<li>A comment in the rules file has been corrected.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Issues when migrating from Shorewall 1.4.x to Shorewall
2.0.0:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The 'dropunclean' and 'logunclean' interface options are
no longer supported. If either option is specified in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces, an threatening message will be
generated.</li>
<li>The NAT_BEFORE_RULES option has been removed from
shorewall.conf. The behavior of Shorewall is as if
NAT_BEFORE_RULES=No had been specified. In other words, DNAT
rules now always take precidence over one-to-one NAT
specifications.</li>
<li>The default value for the ALL INTERFACES column in
/etc/shorewall/nat has changed. In Shorewall 1.*, if the
column was left empty, a value of "Yes" was assumed. This has
been changed so that a value of "No" is now assumed.</li>
<li>The following files don't exist in Shorewall 2.0:<br>
/etc/shorewall/common.def<br>
/etc/shorewall/common<br>
/etc/shorewall/icmpdef<br>
/etc/shorewall/action.template (Moved to
/usr/share/shorewall)<br>
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918 (Moved to /usr/share/shorewall).<br>
<br>
The /etc/shorewall/action file now allows an action to be
designated as the "common" action for a particular policy
type by following the action name with ":" and the policy
(DROP, REJECT or ACCEPT).<br>
<br>
The file /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std has been added to
define those actions that are released as part of Shorewall.
In that file are two actions as follows:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Drop:DROP<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Reject:REJECT<br>
<br>
The "Drop" action is the common action for DROP policies
while the "Reject" action is the default action for "REJECT"
policies. These actions will be performed on packets prior to
applying the DROP or REJECT policy respectively. In the first
release, the difference between "Reject" and "Drop" is that
"Reject" REJECTs SMB traffic while "Drop" silently drops such
traffic.<br>
<br>
As described above, Shorewall allows a common action for
ACCEPT policies but does not specify such an action in the
default configuration.<br>
<br>
If for some reason, you don't wish to have a common DROP or
REJECT action, just include :DROP or :REJECT respectively in
your /etc/shorewall/actions file.<br>
<br>
The file /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std catalogs the
standard actions and is processed prior to
/etc/shorewall/actions. This causes a large number of actions
to be defined. The files which define these aactions are also
located in /usr/share/shorewall as is the he action template
file (action.template).<br>
<br>
These actions may be used in the ACTION column of the rules
column. So for example, to allow FTP from your loc zone to
your firewall, you would place this rule in
/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; #ACTION&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SOURCE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DEST<br>
&nbsp; AllowFTP&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; fw<br>
<br>
If you want to redefine any of the Shorewall-defined
actions, simply copy the appropriate action file from
/usr/share/shorewall to /etc/shorewall and modify the copy as
desired. Your modified copy will be used rather than the
original one in /usr/share/shorewall.<br>
<br>
Note: The 'dropBcast' and 'dropNonSyn' actions are built
into Shorewall and may not be changed.<br>
<br>
Beginning with version 2.0.0-Beta2, Shorewall will only
create a chain for those actions that are actually used.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall directory no longer contains a 'users'
file or a 'usersets' file. Similar functionality is now
available using user-defined actions.<br>
<br>
Now, action files created by copying
/usr/share/shorewall/action.template may specify a USER and
or GROUP name/id in the final column just like in the rules
file (see below). It is thus possible to create actions that
control traffic from a list of users and/or groups.<br>
<br>
The last column in /etc/shorewall/rules is now labeled
USER/GROUP and may contain:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user number&gt;[:]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user name&gt;[:]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]:&lt;group number&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]:&lt;group name&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user number&gt;:&lt;group
number&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user number&gt;:&lt;group
name&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user name&gt;:&lt;group
number&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [!]&lt;user name&gt;:&lt;group
name&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
</li>
<li>It is no longer possible to specify rate limiting in the
ACTION column of /etc/shorewall/rules -- you must use the
RATE LIMIT column.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Depending on which method you use to upgrade, if you have
your own version of /etc/shorewall/rfc1918, you may have to
take special action to restore it after the upgrade. Look for
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918*, locate the proper file and rename it
back to /etc/shorewall/rfc1918. The contents of that file
will supercede the contents of
/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918.</li>
</ol>
<p>New Features:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The INCLUDE directive now allows absolute file
names.</li>
<li>A 'nosmurfs' interface option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. When specified for an interface,
this option causes smurfs (packets with a broadcast address
as their source) to be dropped and optionally logged (based
on the setting of a new SMURF_LOG_LEVEL option in
shorewall.conf).</li>
<li>fw-&gt;fw traffic may now be controlled by Shorewall.
There is no need to define the loopback interface in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces; you simply add a fw-&gt;fw policy
and fw-&gt;fw rules. If you have neither a fw-&gt;fw policy
nor fw-&gt;fw rules, all fw-&gt;fw traffic is allowed.</li>
<li>There is a new PERSISTENT column in the proxyarp file. A
value of "Yes" in this column means that the route added by
Shorewall for this host will remain after a "shorewall stop"
or "shorewall clear".</li>
<li>"trace" is now a synonym for "debug" in /sbin/shorewall
commands. So to trace the "start" command, you could
enter:<br>
<br>
shorewall trace start 2&gt; /tmp/trace<br>
<br>
The trace information would be written to the file
/tmp/trace.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>When defining an ipsec tunnel in /etc/shorewall/tunnels,
if you follow the tunnel type ("ipsec" or "ipsecnet") with
":noah" (e.g., "ipsec:noah"), then Shorewall will only create
rules for ESP (protocol 50) and will not create rules for AH
(protocol 51).</li>
<li>A new DISABLE_IPV6 option has been added to
shorewall.conf. When this option is set to "Yes", Shorewall
will set the policy for the IPv6 INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD
chains to DROP during "shorewall [re]start" and "shorewall
stop". Regardless of the setting of this variable, "shorewall
clear" will silently attempt to set these policies to
ACCEPT.<br>
<br>
If this option is not set in your existing shorewall.conf
then a setting of DISABLE_IPV6=No is assumed in which case,
Shorewall will not touch any IPv6 settings except during
"shorewall clear".</li>
<li>The CONTINUE target is now available in action
definitions. CONTINUE terminates processing of the current
action and returns to the point where that action was
invoked.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>2/15/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10c&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects one problem:<br>
</p>
Entries in /etc/shorewall/tcrules with an empty USER/GROUP
column would cause a startup error.
<p><b>2/12/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10b&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects one problem:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>In the /etc/shorewall/masq entry “<span class=
"quote">eth0:!10.1.1.150 &nbsp; &nbsp;0.0.0.0/0!10.1.0.0/16
&nbsp; &nbsp; 10.1.2.16</span>”, the “<span class=
"quote">!10.1.0.0/16</span>” is ignored.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>2/8/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10a&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects two problems:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>A problem which can cause [re]start to fail inexplicably
while processing /etc/shorewall/masq.</li>
<li>Interfaces using the Atheros WiFi card to use the
'maclist' option.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>1/30/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10</b></p>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.9</p>
<ol>
<li>The column descriptions in the action.template file did
not match the column headings. That has been corrected.</li>
<li>The presence of IPV6 addresses on devices generated error
messages during [re]start if ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes or
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes are specified in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These messages have been
eliminated.</li>
<li value="3">The CONTINUE action in /etc/shorewall/rules now
works correctly. A couple of problems involving rate limiting
have been corrected. These bug fixes courtesy of Steven Jan
Springl.</li>
<li>Shorewall now tried to avoid sending an ICMP response to
broadcasts and smurfs.</li>
<li>Specifying "-" or "all" in the PROTO column of an action
no longer causes a startup error.</li>
</ol>
Migragion Issues:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The INTERFACE column in the /etc/shorewall/masq file may
now specify a destination list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ADDRESS<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:192.0.2.3,192.0.2.16/28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1<br>
<br>
If the list begins with "!" then SNAT will occur only if the
destination IP address is NOT included in the list.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Output traffic control rules (those with the firewall as
the source) may now be qualified by the effective userid
and/or effective group id of the program generating the
output. This feature is courtesy of&nbsp; Frédéric
LESPEZ.<br>
<br>
A new USER column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
It may contain :<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&lt;user name or
number&gt;]:[&lt;group name or number&gt;]<br>
<br>
The colon is optionnal when specifying only a user.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples : john: / john
/ :users / john:users<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A "detectnets" interface option has been added for
entries in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option
automatically taylors the definition of the zone named in the
ZONE column to include just&nbsp; those hosts that have
routes through the interface named in the INTERFACE column.
The named interface must be UP when Shorewall is
[re]started.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;WARNING: DO NOT SET THIS OPTION ON YOUR INTERNET
INTERFACE! &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/27/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10 RC3</b></p>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</p>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.9</p>
<ol>
<li>The column descriptions in the action.template file did
not match the column headings. That has been corrected.</li>
<li>The presence of IPV6 addresses on devices generated error
messages during [re]start if ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes or
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes are specified in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These messages have been
eliminated.</li>
<li value="3">The CONTINUE action in /etc/shorewall/rules now
works correctly. A couple of problems involving rate limiting
have been corrected. These bug fixes courtesy of Steven Jan
Springl.</li>
<li>Shorewall now tried to avoid sending an ICMP response to
broadcasts and smurfs.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Migragion Issues:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The INTERFACE column in the /etc/shorewall/masq file may
now specify a destination list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ADDRESS<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:192.0.2.3,192.0.2.16/28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1<br>
<br>
If the list begins with "!" then SNAT will occur only if the
destination IP address is NOT included in the list.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Output traffic control rules (those with the firewall as
the source) may now be qualified by the effective userid
and/or effective group id of the program generating the
output. This feature is courtesy of&nbsp; Frédéric
LESPEZ.<br>
<br>
A new USER column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
It may contain :<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&lt;user name or
number&gt;]:[&lt;group name or number&gt;]<br>
<br>
The colon is optionnal when specifying only a user.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples : john: / john
/ :users / john:users<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A "detectnets" interface option has been added for
entries in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option
automatically taylors the definition of the zone named in the
ZONE column to include just&nbsp; those hosts that have
routes through the interface named in the INTERFACE column.
The named interface must be UP when Shorewall is
[re]started.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;WARNING: DO NOT SET THIS OPTION ON YOUR INTERNET
INTERFACE! &nbsp;&nbsp;</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/24/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10 RC2</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</p>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.9</p>
<ol>
<li>The column descriptions in the action.template file did
not match the column headings. That has been corrected.</li>
<li>The presence of IPV6 addresses on devices generated error
messages during [re]start if ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes or
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes are specified in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These messages have been
eliminated.</li>
</ol>
Migragion Issues:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The INTERFACE column in the /etc/shorewall/masq file may
now specify a destination list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ADDRESS<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:192.0.2.3,192.0.2.16/28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1<br>
<br>
If the list begins with "!" then SNAT will occur only if the
destination IP address is NOT included in the list.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Output traffic control rules (those with the firewall as
the source) may now be qualified by the effective userid
and/or effective group id of the program generating the
output. This feature is courtesy of&nbsp; Frédéric
LESPEZ.<br>
<br>
A new USER column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
It may contain :<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&lt;user name or
number&gt;]:[&lt;group name or number&gt;]<br>
<br>
The colon is optionnal when specifying only a user.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples : john: / john
/ :users / john:users<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A "detectnets" interface option has been added for
entries in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option
automatically taylors the definition of the zone named in the
ZONE column to include just&nbsp; those hosts that have
routes through the interface named in the INTERFACE column.
The named interface must be UP when Shorewall is
[re]started.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;WARNING: DO NOT SET THIS OPTION ON YOUR INTERNET
INTERFACE!</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/22/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.10 RC1</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.9</p>
<ol>
<li>The column descriptions in the action.template file did
not match the column headings. That has been corrected.</li>
<li>The presence of IPV6 addresses on devices generated error
messages during [re]start if ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes or
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes are specified in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These messages have been
eliminated.</li>
</ol>
Migragion Issues:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>The INTERFACE column in the /etc/shorewall/masq file may
now specify a destination list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #INTERFACE&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
SUBNET&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ADDRESS<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:192.0.2.3,192.0.2.16/28&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; eth1<br>
<br>
If the list begins with "!" then SNAT will occur only if the
destination IP address is NOT included in the list.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Output traffic control rules (those with the firewall as
the source) may now be qualified by the effective userid
and/or effective group id of the program generating the
output. This feature is courtesy of&nbsp; Frédéric
LESPEZ.<br>
<br>
A new USER column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
It may contain :<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [&lt;user name or
number&gt;]:[&lt;group name or number&gt;]<br>
<br>
The colon is optionnal when specifying only a user.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples : john: / john
/ :users / john:users&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/13/2004 - Shorewall 1.4.9</b><b><br>
</b></p>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.8:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>There has been a low continuing level of confusion over
the terms "Source NAT" (SNAT) and "Static NAT". To avoid
future confusion, all instances of "Static NAT" have been
replaced with "One-to-one NAT" in the documentation and
configuration files.</li>
<li>The description of NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf has been
reworded for clarity.</li>
<li>Wild-card rules (those involving "all" 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.</li>
<li>DNAT rules that also specified SNAT now work reliably.
Previously, there were cases where the SNAT specification was
effectively ignored.</li>
</ol>
<p>Migration Issues:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The documentation has been completely rebased to Docbook
XML. The documentation is now released as separate HTML and
XML packages.</li>
<li>To cut down on the number of "Why are these ports closed
rather than stealthed?" questions, the SMB-related rules in
/etc/shorewall/common.def have been changed from 'reject' to
'DROP'.</li>
<li>For easier identification, packets logged under the
'norfc1918' interface option are now logged out of chains
named 'rfc1918'. Previously, such packets were logged under
chains named 'logdrop'.</li>
<li>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 "o gz ko
o.gz".<br>
<br>
To see what suffix is used by your distribution:<br>
<br>
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter<br>
<br>
All of the files listed should have the same suffix
(extension). Set MODULE_SUFFIX to that suffix.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kzo" then set
MODULE_SUFFIX="kzo"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kz.o" then
set MODULE_SUFFIX="kz.o"</li>
<li>Support for user defined rule ACTIONS has been
implemented through two new files:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/actions - used to list the user-defined
ACTIONS.<br>
/etc/shorewall/action.template - For each user defined
&lt;action&gt;, copy this file to
/etc/shorewall/action.&lt;action&gt; and add the appropriate
rules for that &lt;action&gt;. Once an &lt;action&gt; has
been defined, it may be used like any of the builtin ACTIONS
(ACCEPT, DROP, etc.) in /etc/shorewall/rules.<br>
<br>
Example: You want an action that logs a packet at the 'info'
level and accepts the connection.<br>
<br>
In /etc/shorewall/actions, you would add:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LogAndAccept<br>
<br>
You would then copy /etc/shorewall/action.template to
/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept and in that file, you
would add the two rules:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOG:info<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT</li>
<li>The default value for NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf is now
"Yes" (non-syn TCP packets that are not part of an existing
connection are filtered according to the rules and policies
rather than being dropped). I have made this change for two
reasons:<br>
<br>
a) NEWNOTSYN=No tends to result in lots of "stuck"
connections since any timeout during TCP session tear down
results in the firewall dropping all of the retries.<br>
<br>
b) The old default of NEWNOTSYN=No and LOGNEWNOTSYN=info
resulted in lots of confusing messages when a connection got
"stuck". While I could have changed the default value of
LOGNEWNOTSYN to suppress logging, I dislike defaults that
silently throw away packets.</li>
<li>The common.def file now contains an entry that silently
drops ICMP packets with a null source address. Ad Koster
reported a case where these were occuring frequently as a
result of a broken system on his external network.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>12/29/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.9 Beta 2</b></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a>
</div>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.8:</p>
<ol>
<li>There has been a low continuing level of confusion over
the terms "Source NAT" (SNAT) and "Static NAT". To avoid
future confusion, all instances of "Static NAT" have been
replaced with "One-to-one NAT" in the documentation and
configuration files.</li>
<li>The description of NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf has been
reworded for clarity.</li>
<li>Wild-card rules (those involving "all" 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.</li>
<li>DNAT rules that also specified SNAT now work reliably.
Previously, there were cases where the SNAT specification was
effectively ignored.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Migration Issues:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:</p>
<ol>
<li>The documentation has been completely rebased to Docbook
XML. The documentation is now released as separate HTML and
XML packages.<br>
</li>
<li>To cut down on the number of "Why are these ports closed
rather than stealthed?" questions, the SMB-related rules in
/etc/shorewall/common.def have been changed from 'reject' to
'DROP'.</li>
<li>For easier identification, packets logged under the
'norfc1918' interface option are now logged out of chains
named 'rfc1918'. Previously, such packets were logged under
chains named 'logdrop'.</li>
<li>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 "o gz ko
o.gz".<br>
<br>
To see what suffix is used by your distribution:<br>
<br>
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter<br>
<br>
All of the files listed should have the same suffix
(extension). Set MODULE_SUFFIX to that suffix.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kzo" then set
MODULE_SUFFIX="kzo"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kz.o" then
set MODULE_SUFFIX="kz.o"</li>
<li>Support for user defined rule ACTIONS has been
implemented through two new files:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/actions - used to list the user-defined
ACTIONS.<br>
/etc/shorewall/action.template - For each user defined
&lt;action&gt;, copy this file to
/etc/shorewall/action.&lt;action&gt; and add the appropriate
rules for that &lt;action&gt;. Once an &lt;action&gt; has
been defined, it may be used like any of the builtin ACTIONS
(ACCEPT, DROP, etc.) in /etc/shorewall/rules.<br>
<br>
Example: You want an action that logs a packet at the 'info'
level and accepts the connection.<br>
<br>
In /etc/shorewall/actions, you would add:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LogAndAccept<br>
<br>
You would then copy /etc/shorewall/action.template to
/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept and in that file, you
would add the two rules:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOG:info<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT<br>
</li>
<li>The default value for NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf is now
"Yes" (non-syn TCP packets that are not part of an existing
connection are filtered according to the rules and policies
rather than being dropped). I have made this change for two
reasons:<br>
<br>
a) NEWNOTSYN=No tends to result in lots of "stuck"
connections since any timeout during TCP session tear down
results in the firewall dropping all of the retries.<br>
<br>
b) The old default of NEWNOTSYN=No and LOGNEWNOTSYN=info
resulted in lots of confusing messages when a connection got
"stuck". While I could have changed the default value of
LOGNEWNOTSYN to suppress logging, I dislike defaults that
silently throw away packets.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>12/28/2003 - www.shorewall.net/ftp.shorewall.net Back
On-line</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p>Our high-capacity server has been restored to service --
please let <a href="mailto:webmaster@shorewall.net">us</a> know
if you find any problems.</p>
<p><b>12/29/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.9 Beta 1</b></p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a>
</div>
<p>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.8:</p>
<ol>
<li>There has been a low continuing level of confusion over
the terms "Source NAT" (SNAT) and "Static NAT". To avoid
future confusion, all instances of "Static NAT" have been
replaced with "One-to-one NAT" in the documentation and
configuration files.</li>
<li>The description of NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf has been
reworded for clarity.</li>
<li>Wild-card rules (those involving "all" 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.</li>
</ol>
<p>Migration Issues:</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; None.<br>
<br>
New Features:</p>
<ol>
<li>To cut down on the number of "Why are these ports closed
rather than stealthed?" questions, the SMB-related rules in
/etc/shorewall/common.def have been changed from 'reject' to
'DROP'.</li>
<li>For easier identification, packets logged under the
'norfc1918' interface option are now logged out of chains
named 'rfc1918'. Previously, such packets were logged under
chains named 'logdrop'.</li>
<li>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 "o gz ko
o.gz".<br>
<br>
To see what suffix is used by your distribution:<br>
<br>
ls /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter<br>
<br>
All of the files listed should have the same suffix
(extension). Set MODULE_SUFFIX to that suffix.<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kzo" then set
MODULE_SUFFIX="kzo"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If all files end in ".kz.o" then
set MODULE_SUFFIX="kz.o"</li>
<li>Support for user defined rule ACTIONS has been
implemented through two new files:<br>
<br>
/etc/shorewall/actions - used to list the user-defined
ACTIONS.<br>
/etc/shorewall/action.template - For each user defined
&lt;action&gt;, copy this file to
/etc/shorewall/action.&lt;action&gt; and add the appropriate
rules for that &lt;action&gt;. Once an &lt;action&gt; has
been defined, it may be used like any of the builtin ACTIONS
(ACCEPT, DROP, etc.) in /etc/shorewall/rules.<br>
<br>
Example: You want an action that logs a packet at the 'info'
level and accepts the connection.<br>
<br>
In /etc/shorewall/actions, you would add:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LogAndAccept<br>
<br>
You would then copy /etc/shorewall/action.template to
/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept and in that file, you
would add the two rules:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOG:info<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT<br>
</li>
<li>The default value for NEWNOTSYN in shorewall.conf is now
"Yes" (non-syn TCP packets that are not part of an existing
connection are filtered according to the rules and policies
rather than being dropped). I have made this change for two
reasons:<br>
<br>
a) NEWNOTSYN=No tends to result in lots of "stuck"
connections since any timeout during TCP session tear down
results in the firewall dropping all of the retries.<br>
<br>
b) The old default of NEWNOTSYN=No and LOGNEWNOTSYN=info
resulted in lots of confusing messages when a connection got
"stuck". While I could have changed the default value of
LOGNEWNOTSYN to suppress logging, I dislike defaults that
silently throw away packets.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>12/03/2003 - Support Torch Passed</b></p>
Effective today, I am reducing my participation in the
day-to-day support of Shorewall. As part of this shift to
community-based Shorewall support a new <a href=
"https://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-newbies">
Shorewall Newbies mailing list</a> has been established to
field questions and problems from new users. I will not monitor
that list personally. I will continue my active development of
Shorewall and will be available via the development list to
handle development issues -- Tom.
<p><b>11/07/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.8<br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected since version 1.4.7:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Tuomo Soini has supplied a correction to a problem that
occurs using some versions of 'ash'. The symptom is that
"shorewall start" fails with:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; local: --limit: bad variable name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn't load match
`-j':/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
information.</li>
<li>Andres Zhoglo has supplied a correction that avoids
trying to use the multiport match iptables facility on ICMP
rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example of rule that previously caused
"shorewall start" to fail:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp; $FW&nbsp;
icmp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,8,11,12<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if the following error message was issued,
Shorewall was left in an inconsistent state.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Unable to determine the routes through
interface xxx<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Handling of the LOGUNCLEAN option in shorewall.conf has
been corrected.</li>
<li>In Shorewall 1.4.2, an optimization was added. This
optimization involved creating a chain named
"&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" for most zones defined using the
/etc/shorewall/hosts file. It has since been discovered that
in many cases these new chains contain redundant rules and
that the "optimization" turns out to be less than optimal.
The implementation has now been corrected.</li>
<li>When the MARK value in a tcrules entry is followed by
":F" or ":P", the ":F" or ":P" was previously only applied to
the first Netfilter rule generated by the entry. It is now
applied to all entries.</li>
<li>An incorrect comment concerning Debian's use of the
SUBSYSLOCK option has been removed from shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>Previously, neither the 'routefilter' interface option
nor the ROUTE_FILTER parameter were working properly. This
has been corrected (thanks to Eric Bowles for his analysis
and patch). The definition of the ROUTE_FILTER option has
changed however. Previously, ROUTE_FILTER=Yes was documented
as enabling route filtering on all interfaces (which didn't
work). Beginning with this release, setting ROUTE_FILTER=Yes
will enable route filtering of all interfaces brought up
while Shorewall is started. As a consequence,
ROUTE_FILTER=Yes can coexist with the use of the
'routefilter' option in the interfaces file.</li>
<li>If MAC verification was enabled on an interface with a
/32 address and a broadcast address then an error would occur
during startup.</li>
<li>The NONE policy's intended use is to suppress the
generating of rules that can't possibly be traversed. This
means that a policy of NONE is inappropriate where the source
or destination zone is $FW or "all". Shorewall now generates
an error message if such a policy is given in
/etc/shorewall/policy. Previously such a policy caused
"shorewall start" to fail.</li>
<li>The 'routeback' option was broken for wildcard interfaces
(e.g., "tun+"). This has been corrected so that 'routeback'
now works as expected in this case.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Migration Issues:<br>
<ol>
<li>The definition of the ROUTE_FILTER option in
shorewall.conf has changed as described in item 8) above.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A new QUEUE action has been introduced for rules. QUEUE
allows you to pass connection requests to a user-space filter
such as ftwall (http://p2pwall.sourceforge.net). The ftwall
program allows for effective filtering of p2p applications
such as Kazaa. For example, to use ftwall to filter P2P
clients in the 'loc' zone, you would add the following
rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
<br>
You would normally want to place those three rules BEFORE
any ACCEPT rules for loc-&gt;net udp or tcp.<br>
<br>
Note: When the protocol specified is TCP ("tcp", "TCP" or
"6"), Shorewall will only pass connection requests (SYN
packets) to user space. This is for compatibility with
ftwall.</li>
<li>A BLACKLISTNEWNONLY option has been added to
shorewall.conf. When this option is set to "Yes", the
blacklists (dynamic and static) are only consulted for new
connection requests. When set to "No" (the default if the
variable is not set), the blacklists are consulted on every
packet.<br>
<br>
Setting this option to "No" allows blacklisting to stop
existing connections from a newly blacklisted host but is
more expensive in terms of packet processing time. This is
especially true if the blacklists contain a large number of
entries.</li>
<li>Chain names used in the /etc/shorewall/accounting file
may now begin with a digit ([0-9]) and may contain embedded
dashes ("-").</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/30/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.8 RC1<br>
</b></p>
Given the small number of new features and the relatively few
lines of code that were changed, there will be no Beta for
1.4.8.<br>
<p><b><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<br>
</b> Problems Corrected since version 1.4.7:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Tuomo Soini has supplied a correction to a problem that
occurs using some versions of 'ash'. The symptom is that
"shorewall start" fails with:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; local: --limit: bad variable name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn't load match
`-j':/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
information.</li>
<li>Andres Zhoglo has supplied a correction that avoids
trying to use the multiport match iptables facility on ICMP
rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example of rule that previously caused
"shorewall start" to fail:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp; $FW&nbsp;
icmp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,8,11,12<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if the following error message was issued,
Shorewall was left in an inconsistent state.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Unable to determine the routes through
interface xxx<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Handling of the LOGUNCLEAN option in shorewall.conf has
been corrected.</li>
<li>In Shorewall 1.4.2, an optimization was added. This
optimization involved creating a chain named
"&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" for most zones defined using the
/etc/shorewall/hosts file. It has since been discovered that
in many cases these new chains contain redundant rules and
that the "optimization" turns out to be less than optimal.
The implementation has now been corrected.</li>
<li>When the MARK value in a tcrules entry is followed by
":F" or ":P", the ":F" or ":P" was previously only applied to
the first Netfilter rule generated by the entry. It is now
applied to all entries.</li>
<li>An incorrect comment concerning Debian's use of the
SYBSYSLOCK option has been removed from shorewall.conf.</li>
<li>Previously, neither the 'routefilter' interface option
nor the ROUTE_FILTER parameter were working properly. This
has been corrected (thanks to Eric Bowles for his analysis
and patch). The definition of the ROUTE_FILTER option has
changed however. Previously, ROUTE_FILTER=Yes was documented
as enabling route filtering on all interfaces (which didn't
work). Beginning with this release, setting ROUTE_FILTER=Yes
will enable route filtering of all interfaces brought up
while Shorewall is started. As a consequence,
ROUTE_FILTER=Yes can coexist with the use of the
'routefilter' option in the interfaces file.</li>
</ol>
Migration Issues:<br>
<ol>
<li>The definition of the ROUTE_FILTER option in
shorewall.conf has changed as described in item 8) above.<br>
</li>
</ol>
New Features:<br>
<ol>
<li>A new QUEUE action has been introduced for rules. QUEUE
allows you to pass connection requests to a user-space filter
such as ftwall (http://p2pwall.sourceforge.net). The ftwall
program allows for effective filtering of p2p applications
such as Kazaa. For example, to use ftwall to filter P2P
clients in the 'loc' zone, you would add the following
rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; QUEUE&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp<br>
<br>
You would normally want to place those three rules BEFORE
any ACCEPT rules for loc-&gt;net udp or tcp.<br>
<br>
Note: When the protocol specified is TCP ("tcp", "TCP" or
"6"), Shorewall will only pass connection requests (SYN
packets) to user space. This is for compatibility with
ftwall.</li>
<li>A BLACKLISTNEWNONLY option has been added to
shorewall.conf. When this option is set to "Yes", the
blacklists (dynamic and static) are only consulted for new
connection requests. When set to "No" (the default if the
variable is not set), the blacklists are consulted on every
packet.<br>
<br>
Setting this option to "No" allows blacklisting to stop
existing connections from a newly blacklisted host but is
more expensive in terms of packet processing time. This is
especially true if the blacklists contain a large number of
entries.</li>
<li>Chain names used in the /etc/shorewall/accounting file
may now begin with a digit ([0-9]) and may contain embedded
dashes ("-").<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/26/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7a and 1.4.7b win brown paper
bag awards</b> <b><img style=
"border: 0px solid ; width: 50px; height: 80px;" src=
"images/j0233056.gif" title="" alt="" align="middle">Shorewall
1.4.7c released.</b></p>
<ol>
<li>The saga with "&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" chains continues. The
1.4.7c script produces a ruleset that should work for
everyone even if it is not quite optimal. My apologies for
this ongoing mess.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/24/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7b</b></p>
This is a bugfx rollup of the 1.4.7a fixes plus:<br>
<ol>
<li>The fix for problem 5 in 1.4.7a was wrong with the result
that "&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" chains might contain too few rules.
That wrong code is corrected in this release.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/21/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7a<br>
</b></p>
<p>This is a bugfix rollup of the following problem
corrections:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Tuomo Soini has supplied a correction to a problem that
occurs using some versions of 'ash'. The symptom is that
"shorewall start" fails with:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; local: --limit: bad variable name<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; iptables v1.2.8: Couldn't load match
`-j':/lib/iptables/libipt_-j.so:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; cannot open shared object file: No such file or
directory<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Try `iptables -h' or 'iptables --help' for more
information.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Andres Zhoglo has supplied a correction that avoids
trying to use the multiport match iptables facility on ICMP
rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Example of rule that previously caused
"shorewall start" to fail:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp; $FW&nbsp;
icmp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 0,8,11,12<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if the following error message was issued,
Shorewall was left in an inconsistent state.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Error: Unable to determine the routes through
interface xxx<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Handling of the LOGUNCLEAN option in shorewall.conf has
been corrected.</li>
<li>In Shorewall 1.4.2, an optimization was added. This
optimization involved creating a chain named
"&lt;zone&gt;_frwd" for most zones defined using the
/etc/shorewall/hosts file. It has since been discovered that
in many cases these new chains contain redundant rules and
that the "optimization" turns out to be less than optimal.
The implementation has now been corrected.</li>
<li>When the MARK value in a tcrules entry is followed by
":F" or ":P", the ":F" or ":P" was previously only applied to
the first Netfilter rule generated by the entry. It is now
applied to all entries.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/06/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7</b><b><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6 (Those in bold font
were corrected since 1.4.7 RC2).</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.</li>
<li value="7">The 'shorewall reject' and 'shorewall drop'
commands now delete any existing rules for the subject IP
address before adding a new DROP or REJECT rule. Previously,
there could be many rules for the same IP address in the
dynamic chain so that multiple 'allow' commands were required
to re-enable traffic to/from the address.</li>
<li>When ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf, the
following entry in /etc/shorewall/masq resulted in a startup
error:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0 eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
206.124.146.20-206.124.146.24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall previously choked over IPV6 addresses
configured on interfaces in contexts where Shorewall needed
to detect something about the interface (such as when
"detect" appears in the BROADCAST column of the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file).</li>
<li>Shorewall will now load module files that are formed from
the module name by appending ".o.gz".</li>
<li>When Shorewall adds a route to a proxy ARP host and such
a route already exists, two routes resulted previously. This
has been corrected so that the existing route is replaced if
it already exists.</li>
<li>The rfc1918 file has been updated to reflect recent
allocations.</li>
<li>The documentation of the USER SET column in the rules
file has been corrected.</li>
<li>If there is no policy defined for the zones specified in
a rule, the firewall script previously encountered a shell
syntax error:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [: NONE:
unexpected operator<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
Now, the absence of a policy generates an error message and
the firewall is stopped:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No policy defined
from zone &lt;source&gt; to zone &lt;dest&gt;<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Previously, if neither /etc/shorewall/common nor
/etc/shorewall/common.def existed, Shorewall would fail to
start and would not remove the lock file. Failure to remove
the lock file resulted in the following during subsequent
attempts to start:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Loading
/usr/share/shorewall/functions...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Giving up on lock file
/var/lib/shorewall/lock<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shorewall Not Started<br>
<br>
Shorewall now reports a fatal error if neither of these two
files exist and correctly removes the lock fille.</li>
<li>The order of processing the various options has been
changed such that blacklist entries now take precedence over
the 'dhcp' <span style="font-weight: bold;">i</span>nterface
setting.</li>
<li>The log message generated from the 'logunclean' interface
option has been changed to reflect a disposition of LOG
rather than DROP.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">When a user name and/or
a group name was specified in the USER SET column and the
destination zone was qualified with a IP address, the user
and/or group name was not being used to qualify the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT fw&nbsp; net:192.0.2.12 tcp 23 - -
- vladimir:<br>
<br>
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The /etc/shorewall/masq
file has had the spurious "/" character at the front
removed.<br>
<br>
</span></li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The per-interface Dynamic Blacklisting facility
introduced in the first post-1.4.6 Snapshot has been removed.
The facility had too many idiosyncrasies for dial-up users to
be a viable part of Shorewall.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>10/02/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7 RC2</b><b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6 (Those in bold font
were corrected since 1.4.7 RC 1).</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.</li>
<li value="7">The 'shorewall reject' and 'shorewall drop'
commands now delete any existing rules for the subject IP
address before adding a new DROP or REJECT rule. Previously,
there could be many rules for the same IP address in the
dynamic chain so that multiple 'allow' commands were required
to re-enable traffic to/from the address.</li>
<li>When ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf, the
following entry in /etc/shorewall/masq resulted in a startup
error:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0 eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
206.124.146.20-206.124.146.24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall previously choked over IPV6 addresses
configured on interfaces in contexts where Shorewall needed
to detect something about the interface (such as when
"detect" appears in the BROADCAST column of the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file).</li>
<li>Shorewall will now load module files that are formed from
the module name by appending ".o.gz".</li>
<li>When Shorewall adds a route to a proxy ARP host and such
a route already exists, two routes resulted previously. This
has been corrected so that the existing route is replaced if
it already exists.</li>
<li>The rfc1918 file has been updated to reflect recent
allocations.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The documentation of the
USER SET column in the rules file has been
corrected.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">If there is no policy
defined for the zones specified in a rule, the firewall
script previously encountered a shell syntax error:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [: NONE:
unexpected operator<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
Now, the absence of a policy generates an error message and
the firewall is stopped:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No policy defined
from zone &lt;source&gt; to zone &lt;dest&gt;<br>
<br>
</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Previously, if neither
/etc/shorewall/common nor /etc/shorewall/common.def existed,
Shorewall would fail to start and would not remove the lock
file. Failure to remove the lock file resulted in the
following during subsequent attempts to start:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Loading
/usr/share/shorewall/functions...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Processing
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Giving up on lock file
/var/lib/shorewall/lock<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Shorewall Not Started<br>
<br>
Shorewall now reports a fatal error if neither of these two
files exist and correctly removes the lock fille.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The order of processing
the various options has been changed such that blacklist
entries now take precedence over the 'dhcp' interface
setting.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The log message
generated from the 'logunclean' interface option has been
changed to reflect a disposition of LOG rather than
DROP.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The RFC1918 file has
been updated to reflect recent IANA allocations.<br>
</span></li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The per-interface Dynamic Blacklisting facility
introduced in the first post-1.4.6 Snapshot has been removed.
The facility had too many idiosyncrasies for dial-up users to
be a viable part of Shorewall.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>9/18/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7 RC 1</b><b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6 (Those in bold font
were corrected since 1.4.7 Beta 1).</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.</li>
<li value="7">The 'shorewall reject' and 'shorewall drop'
commands now delete any existing rules for the subject IP
address before adding a new DROP or REJECT rule. Previously,
there could be many rules for the same IP address in the
dynamic chain so that multiple 'allow' commands were required
to re-enable traffic to/from the address.</li>
<li>When ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf, the
following entry in /etc/shorewall/masq resulted in a startup
error:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0 eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
206.124.146.20-206.124.146.24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall previously choked over IPV6 addresses
configured on interfaces in contexts where Shorewall needed
to detect something about the interface (such as when
"detect" appears in the BROADCAST column of the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file).</li>
<li>Shorewall will now load module files that are formed from
the module name by appending ".o.gz".</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">When Shorewall adds a route to
a proxy ARP host and such a route already exists, two routes
resulted previously. This has been corrected so that the
existing route is replaced if it already exists.</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">The rfc1918 file has
been updated to reflect recent allocations.</span><br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The per-interface Dynamic Blacklisting facility
introduced in the first post-1.4.6 Snapshot has been removed.
The facility had too many idiosyncrasies for dial-up users to
be a viable part of Shorewall.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>9/15/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7 Beta 2</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6 (Those in bold font
were corrected since 1.4.7 Beta 1).</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.</li>
<li value="7" style="font-weight: bold;">The 'shorewall
reject' and 'shorewall drop' commands now delete any existing
rules for the subject IP address before adding a new DROP or
REJECT rule. Previously, there could be many rules for the
same IP address in the dynamic chain so that multiple 'allow'
commands were required to re-enable traffic to/from the
address.</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">When ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes in
shorewall.conf, the following entry in /etc/shorewall/masq
resulted in a startup error:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; eth0 eth1&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
206.124.146.20-206.124.146.24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall previously choked
over IPV6 addresses configured on interfaces in contexts
where Shorewall needed to detect something about the
interface (such as when "detect" appears in the BROADCAST
column of the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file).</li>
<li><span style="font-weight: bold;">Shorewall will now load
module files that are formed from the module name by
appending ".o.gz".</span><br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The per-interface Dynamic Blacklisting facility
introduced in the first post-1.4.6 Snapshot has been removed.
The facility had too many idiosyncrasies for dial-up users to
be a viable part of Shorewall.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/27/2003 - Shorewall Mirror in Australia</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Dave Kempe and Solutions First (<a href=
"http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au"><font size=
"3">http://www.solutionsfirst.com.au</font></a>), there is now
a Shorewall Mirror in Australia:</p>
<div style="margin-left: 40px;">
<a href="http://www.shorewall.com.au" target="_top"><font
size="3">http://www.shorewall.com.au</font></a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.com.au"><font size=
"3">ftp://ftp.shorewall.com.au</font></a>
</div>
<p><b>8/26/2003 - French Version of the Shorewall Setup
Guide&nbsp;</b></p>
Thanks to Fabien <font size="3">Demassieux, there is now a <a
href="shorewall_setup_guide_fr.htm">French translation of the
Shorewall Setup Guide</a>. Merci Beacoup, Fabien!</font>
<p><b>8/25/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.7 Beta 1</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The per-interface Dynamic Blacklisting facility
introduced in the first post-1.4.6 Snapshot has been removed.
The facility had too many idiosyncrasies for dial-up users to
be a viable part of Shorewall.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/23/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_2003082</b><span style=
"font-weight: bold;">3</span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are now
displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains" page
(previously named "Dynamic Chain").</li>
<li>Thanks to Henry Yang, LOGRATE and LOGBURST now work
again.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
<li>Shorewall IP Traffic Accounting has changed since
snapshot 20030813 -- see the <a href=
"Accounting.html">Accounting Page</a> for details.</li>
<li>The Uset Set capability introduced in SnapShot 20030821
has changed -- see the <a href="UserSets.html">User Set
page</a> for details.</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for
each interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The
'drop' and 'reject' commands use the routing table to
determine which of these chains is to be used for
blacklisting the specified IP address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do;
namely, when an address is blacklisted using these new
commands, it will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's
interfaces.</li>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit,<br>
<br>
a) Follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
<br>
b) A new RATE LIMIT column has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. You may specify the rate limit
there in the format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;]<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
<li>Multiple chains may now be displayed in one "shorewall
show" command (e.g., shorewall show INPUT FORWARD
OUTPUT).</li>
<li>Output rules (those with $FW as the SOURCE) may now be
limited to a set of local users and/or groups. See <a href=
"UserSets.html">http://shorewall.net/UserSets.html</a> for
details.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/13/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_20030813</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages</li>
<li>&nbsp;Interface-specific dynamic blacklisting chains are
now displayed by "shorewall monitor" on the "Dynamic Chains"
page (previously named "Dynamic Chain").<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for
each interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The
'drop' and 'reject' commands use the routing table to
determine which of these chains is to be used for
blacklisting the specified IP address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do;
namely, when an address is blacklisted using these new
commands, it will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's
interfaces.</li>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.</li>
<li>The ADDRESS column in /etc/shorewall/masq may now include
a comma-separated list of addresses and/or address ranges.
Netfilter will use all listed addresses/ranges in round-robin
fashion. \</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/accounting file has been added to allow
for traffic accounting.&nbsp; See the <a href=
"Accounting.html">accounting documentation</a> for a
description of this facility.</li>
<li>Bridge interfaces (br[0-9]) may now be used in
/etc/shorewall/maclist.</li>
<li>ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-] and LOG rules defined in
/etc/shorewall/rules may now be rate-limited. For DNAT and
REDIRECT rules, rate limiting occurs in the nat table DNAT
rule; the corresponding ACCEPT rule in the filter table is
not rate limited. If you want to limit the filter table rule,
you will need o create two rules; a DNAT- rule and an ACCEPT
rule which can be rate-limited separately.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Warning:</span> When rate
limiting is specified on a rule with "all" in the SOURCE or
DEST fields, the limit will apply to each pair of zones
individually rather than as a single limit for all pairs of
covered by the rule.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
To specify a rate limit, follow ACCEPT, DNAT[-], REDIRECT[-]
or LOG with<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;
&lt;rate&gt;/&lt;interval&gt;[:&lt;burst&gt;] &gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; where<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;rate&gt; is the sustained
rate per &lt;interval&gt;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;interval&gt; is "sec" or
"min"<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;burst&gt; is the largest
burst accepted within an &lt;interval&gt;. If not given, the
default of 5 is assumed.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
There may be no white space between the ACTION and "&lt;"
nor there may be any white space within the burst
specification. If you want to specify logging of a
rate-limited rule, the ":" and log level comes after the
"&gt;" (e.g., ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;:info ).<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Let's take an example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
ACCEPT&lt;2/sec:4&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dmz&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 80<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The first time this rule is reached, the packet will be
accepted; in fact, since the burst is 4, the first four
packets will be accepted. After this, it will be 500ms (1
second divided by the rate<br>
of 2) before a packet will be accepted from this rule,
regardless of how many packets reach it. Also, every 500ms
which passes without matching a packet, one of the bursts
will be regained; if no packets hit the rule for 2 second,
the burst will be fully recharged; back where we started.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/9/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_20030809</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for
each interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The
'drop' and 'reject' commands use the routing table to
determine which of these chains is to be used for
blacklisting the specified IP address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do;
namely, when an address is blacklisted using these new
commands, it will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's
interfaces.</li>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
<li>Given the wide range of VPN software, I can never hope to
add specific support for all of it. I have therefore decided
to add "generic" tunnel support.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Generic tunnels work pretty much like any of the other
tunnel types. You usually add a zone to represent the systems
at the other end of the tunnel and you add the appropriate
rules/policies to<br>
implement your security policy regarding traffic to/from
those systems.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
In the /etc/shorewall/tunnels file, you can have entries of
the form:<br>
<br>
generic:&lt;protocol&gt;[:&lt;port&gt;]&nbsp;
&lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
&lt;gateway zones&gt;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
where:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;protocol&gt; is the
protocol used by the tunnel<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;port&gt;&nbsp; if
the protocol is 'udp' or 'tcp' then this is the destination
port number used by the tunnel.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;zone&gt;&nbsp; is
the zone of the remote tunnel gateway<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;ip address&gt; is
the IP address of the remote tunnel gateway.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &lt;gateway
zone&gt;&nbsp;&nbsp; Optional. A comma-separated list of zone
names. If specified, the remote gateway is to be considered
part of these zones.</li>
<li>An 'arp_filter' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces file. This option causes
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/arp_filter to be
set with the result that this interface will only answer ARP
'who-has' requests from hosts that are routed out through
that interface. Setting this option facilitates testing of
your firewall where multiple firewall interfaces are
connected to the same HUB/Switch (all interfaces connected to
the single HUB/Switch should have this option specified).
Note that using such a configuration in a production
environment is strongly recommended against.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/5/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6b</b><b>&nbsp;<br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Previously, if TC_ENABLED is set to yes in shorewall.conf
then Shorewall would fail to start with the error "ERROR:
&nbsp;Traffic Control requires Mangle"; that problem has been
corrected.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>8/5/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6b</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Previously, if TC_ENABLED is set to yes in shorewall.conf
then Shorewall would fail to start with the error "ERROR:
&nbsp;Traffic Control requires Mangle"; that problem has been
corrected.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.</li>
<li>The "shorewall stop" command is now disabled when
/etc/shorewall/startup_disabled exists. This prevents people
from shooting themselves in the foot prior to having
configured Shorewall.</li>
<li>A change introduced in version 1.4.6 caused error
messages during "shorewall [re]start" when ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes
and ip addresses were being added to a PPP interface; the
addresses were successfully added in spite of the
messages.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
The firewall script has been modified to eliminate the error
messages.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/31/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_20030731</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for
each interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The
'drop' and 'reject' commands use the routing table to
determine which of these chains is to be used for
blacklisting the specified IP address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do;
namely, when an address is blacklisted using these new
commands, it will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's
interfaces.</li>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).</li>
<li>A new option "ADMINISABSENTMINDED" has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. This option has a default
value of "No" for existing users which causes Shorewall's
'stopped' state &nbsp;to continue as it has been; namely, in
the stopped state only traffic to/from hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped is accepted.<br>
<br>
With ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes (the default for new installs),
in addition to traffic to/from the hosts listed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped, Shorewall will allow:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) All traffic originating from the firewall
itself; and<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) All traffic that is part of or related to an
already-existing connection.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;In particular, with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, a
"shorewall stop" entered through an ssh session will not kill
the session.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Note though that even with ADMINISABSENTMINDED=Yes, it
is still possible for people to shoot themselves in the
foot.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/nat:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;206.124.146.178&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:0&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<br>
&nbsp;/etc/shorewall/rules:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; net&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
loc:192.168.1.5&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; loc&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
fw&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
22<br>
<br>
From a remote system, I ssh to 206.124.146.178 which
establishes an SSH connection with local system 192.168.1.5.
I then create a second SSH connection from that computer to
the firewall and confidently type "shorewall stop". As part
of its stop processing, Shorewall removes eth0:0 which kills
my SSH connection to 192.168.1.5!!!</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/27/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_20030727</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for
each interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The
'drop' and 'reject' commands use the routing table to
determine which of these chains is to be used for
blacklisting the specified IP address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do;
namely, when an address is blacklisted using these new
commands, it will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's
interfaces.</li>
<li>Thanks to Steve Herber, the 'help' command can now give
command-specific help (e.g., shorewall help
&lt;command&gt;).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/26/2003 - Snapshot 1.4.6_20030726</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href=
"http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a><br>
<a href="ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/"
target=
"_top">ftp://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Snapshots/</a></p>
</blockquote>
<p><b>Problems Corrected since version 1.4.6:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Corrected problem in 1.4.6 where the MANGLE_ENABLED
variable was being tested before it was set.</li>
<li>Corrected handling of MAC addresses in the SOURCE column
of the tcrules file. Previously, these addresses resulted in
an invalid iptables command.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>Once you have installed this version of Shorewall, you
must restart Shorewall before you may use the 'drop',
'reject', 'allow' or 'save' commands.</li>
<li>To maintain strict compatibility with previous versions,
current uses of "shorewall drop" and "shorewall reject"
should be replaced with "shorewall dropall" and "shorewall
rejectall"</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
Shorewall now creates a dynamic blacklisting chain for each
interface defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The 'drop' and
'reject' commands use the routing table to determine which of
these chains is to be used for blacklisting the specified IP
address(es).<br>
<br>
Two new commands ('dropall' and 'rejectall') have been
introduced that do what 'drop' and 'reject' used to do; namely,
when an address is blacklisted using these new commands, it
will be blacklisted on all of your firewall's interfaces.
<p><b>7/22/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6a</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
<ol>
<li>Previously, if TC_ENABLED is set to yes in shorewall.conf
then Shorewall would fail to start with the error "ERROR:
&nbsp;Traffic Control requires Mangle"; that problem has been
corrected.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/20/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A problem seen on RH7.3 systems where Shorewall
encountered start errors when started using the "service"
mechanism has been worked around.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Where a list of IP addresses appears in the DEST column
of a DNAT[-] rule, Shorewall incorrectly created multiple
DNAT rules in the nat table (one for each element in the
list). Shorewall now correctly creates a single DNAT rule
with multiple "--to-destination" clauses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Corrected a problem in Beta 1 where DNS names containing
a "-" were mis-handled when they appeared in the DEST column
of a rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A number of problems with rule parsing have been
corrected. Corrections involve the handling of "z1!z2" in the
SOURCE column as well as lists in the ORIGINAL DESTINATION
column.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The message "Adding rules for DHCP" is now suppressed if
there are no DHCP rules to add.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>In earlier versions, an undocumented feature allowed
entries in the host file as follows:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,eth2:192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
This capability was never documented and has been removed in
1.4.6 to allow entries of the following format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT options
have been removed from /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These
capabilities are now automatically detected by Shorewall (see
below).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A 'newnotsyn' interface option has been added. This
option may be specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
overrides the setting NEWNOTSYN=No for packets arriving on
the associated interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The means for specifying a range of IP addresses in
/etc/shorewall/masq to use for SNAT is now documented.
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes is enabled for address ranges.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall can now add IP addresses to subnets other than
the first one on an interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>DNAT[-] rules may now be used to load balance
(round-robin) over a set of servers. Servers may be specified
in a range of addresses given as &lt;first
address&gt;-&lt;last address&gt;.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; DNAT net loc:192.168.10.2-192.168.10.5 tcp
80<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT
configuration options have been removed and have been
replaced by code that detects whether these capabilities are
present in the current kernel. The output of the start,
restart and check commands have been enhanced to report the
outcome:<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for the Connection Tracking Match Extension has
been added. This extension is available in recent
kernel/iptables releases and allows for rules which match
against elements in netfilter's connection tracking table.
Shorewall automatically detects the availability of this
extension and reports its availability in the output of the
start, restart and check commands.<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Connection Tracking Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
If this extension is available, the ruleset generated by
Shorewall is changed in the following ways:</li>
<li style=
"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;">
<ul>
<li>To handle 'norfc1918' filtering, Shorewall will not
create chains in the mangle table but will rather do all
'norfc1918' filtering in the filter table (rfc1918
chain).</li>
<li>Recall that Shorewall DNAT rules generate two
netfilter rules; one in the nat table and one in the
filter table. If the Connection Tracking Match Extension
is available, the rule in the filter table is extended to
check that the original destination address was the same
as specified (or defaulted to) in the DNAT rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The shell used to interpret the firewall script
(/usr/share/shorewall/firewall) may now be specified using
the SHOREWALL_SHELL parameter in shorewall.conf.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'ipcalc' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipcalc [ &lt;address&gt;
&lt;netmask&gt; | &lt;address&gt;/&lt;vlsm&gt; ]<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
Warning:<br>
<br>
If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmatic (ash or
dash), then the ipcalc command produces incorrect information
for IP addresses 128.0.0.0-1 and for /1 networks. Bash should
produce correct information for all valid IP addresses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'iprange' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; iprange
&lt;address&gt;-&lt;address&gt;<br>
<br>
This command decomposes a range of IP addressses into a list
of network and host addresses. The command can be useful if
you need to construct an efficient set of rules that accept
connections from a range of network addresses.<br>
<br>
Note: If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmetic
(ash or dash) then the range may not span 128.0.0.0.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#
shorewall iprange 192.168.1.4-192.168.12.9<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.4/30<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.8/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.16/28<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.32/27<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.64/26<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.128/25<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.2.0/23<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.4.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.8.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.0/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.8/31<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A list of host/net addresses is now allowed in an entry
in /etc/shorewall/hosts.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The "shorewall check" command now includes the chain name
when printing the applicable policy for each pair of
zones.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Example:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Policy for dmz to
net is REJECT using chain all2all<br>
&nbsp;<br>
This means that the policy for connections from the dmz to
the internet is REJECT and the applicable entry in the
/etc/shorewall/policy was the all-&gt;all policy.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for the 2.6 Kernel series has been added.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/15/2003 - New Mirror in Brazil</b><b><br>
</b></p>
Thanks to the folks at securityopensource.org.br, there is now
a <a href="http://shorewall.securityopensource.org.br" target=
"_top">Shorewall mirror in Brazil</a>.
<p><b>7/15/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6 RC 1</b> <b><br>
</b></p>
<p><b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A problem seen on RH7.3 systems where Shorewall
encountered start errors when started using the "service"
mechanism has been worked around.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Where a list of IP addresses appears in the DEST column
of a DNAT[-] rule, Shorewall incorrectly created multiple
DNAT rules in the nat table (one for each element in the
list). Shorewall now correctly creates a single DNAT rule
with multiple "--to-destination" clauses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Corrected a problem in Beta 1 where DNS names containing
a "-" were mis-handled when they appeared in the DEST column
of a rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A number of problems with rule parsing have been
corrected. Corrections involve the handling of "z1!z2" in the
SOURCE column as well as lists in the ORIGINAL DESTINATION
column.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>In earlier versions, an undocumented feature allowed
entries in the host file as follows:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,eth2:192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
This capability was never documented and has been removed in
1.4.6 to allow entries of the following format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT options
have been removed from /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These
capabilities are now automatically detected by Shorewall (see
below).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A 'newnotsyn' interface option has been added. This
option may be specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
overrides the setting NEWNOTSYN=No for packets arriving on
the associated interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The means for specifying a range of IP addresses in
/etc/shorewall/masq to use for SNAT is now documented.
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes is enabled for address ranges.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall can now add IP addresses to subnets other than
the first one on an interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>DNAT[-] rules may now be used to load balance
(round-robin) over a set of servers. Servers may be specified
in a range of addresses given as &lt;first
address&gt;-&lt;last address&gt;.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; DNAT net loc:192.168.10.2-192.168.10.5 tcp
80<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT
configuration options have been removed and have been
replaced by code that detects whether these capabilities are
present in the current kernel. The output of the start,
restart and check commands have been enhanced to report the
outcome:<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for the Connection Tracking Match Extension has
been added. This extension is available in recent
kernel/iptables releases and allows for rules which match
against elements in netfilter's connection tracking table.
Shorewall automatically detects the availability of this
extension and reports its availability in the output of the
start, restart and check commands.<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Connection Tracking Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
If this extension is available, the ruleset generated by
Shorewall is changed in the following ways:</li>
<li style=
"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;">
<ul>
<li>To handle 'norfc1918' filtering, Shorewall will not
create chains in the mangle table but will rather do all
'norfc1918' filtering in the filter table (rfc1918
chain).</li>
<li>Recall that Shorewall DNAT rules generate two
netfilter rules; one in the nat table and one in the
filter table. If the Connection Tracking Match Extension
is available, the rule in the filter table is extended to
check that the original destination address was the same
as specified (or defaulted to) in the DNAT rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The shell used to interpret the firewall script
(/usr/share/shorewall/firewall) may now be specified using
the SHOREWALL_SHELL parameter in shorewall.conf.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'ipcalc' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipcalc [ &lt;address&gt;
&lt;netmask&gt; | &lt;address&gt;/&lt;vlsm&gt; ]<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
Warning:<br>
<br>
If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmatic (ash or
dash), then the ipcalc command produces incorrect information
for IP addresses 128.0.0.0-1 and for /1 networks. Bash should
produce correct information for all valid IP addresses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'iprange' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; iprange
&lt;address&gt;-&lt;address&gt;<br>
<br>
This command decomposes a range of IP addressses into a list
of network and host addresses. The command can be useful if
you need to construct an efficient set of rules that accept
connections from a range of network addresses.<br>
<br>
Note: If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmetic
(ash or dash) then the range may not span 128.0.0.0.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#
shorewall iprange 192.168.1.4-192.168.12.9<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.4/30<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.8/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.16/28<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.32/27<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.64/26<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.128/25<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.2.0/23<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.4.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.8.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.0/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.8/31<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A list of host/net addresses is now allowed in an entry
in /etc/shorewall/hosts.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/7/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6 Beta 2</b></p>
<p><b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A problem seen on RH7.3 systems where Shorewall
encountered start errors when started using the "service"
mechanism has been worked around.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Where a list of IP addresses appears in the DEST column
of a DNAT[-] rule, Shorewall incorrectly created multiple
DNAT rules in the nat table (one for each element in the
list). Shorewall now correctly creates a single DNAT rule
with multiple "--to-destination" clauses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Corrected a problem in Beta 1 where DNS names containing
a "-" were mis-handled when they appeared in the DEST column
of a rule.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>Migration Issues:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>In earlier versions, an undocumented feature allowed
entries in the host file as follows:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,eth2:192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
This capability was never documented and has been removed in
1.4.6 to allow entries of the following format:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; z&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT options
have been removed from /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. These
capabilities are now automatically detected by Shorewall (see
below).<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A 'newnotsyn' interface option has been added. This
option may be specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
overrides the setting NEWNOTSYN=No for packets arriving on
the associated interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The means for specifying a range of IP addresses in
/etc/shorewall/masq to use for SNAT is now documented.
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes is enabled for address ranges.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall can now add IP addresses to subnets other than
the first one on an interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>DNAT[-] rules may now be used to load balance
(round-robin) over a set of servers. Servers may be specified
in a range of addresses given as &lt;first
address&gt;-&lt;last address&gt;.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; DNAT net loc:192.168.10.2-192.168.10.5 tcp
80<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT
configuration options have been removed and have been
replaced by code that detects whether these capabilities are
present in the current kernel. The output of the start,
restart and check commands have been enhanced to report the
outcome:<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for the Connection Tracking Match Extension has
been added. This extension is available in recent
kernel/iptables releases and allows for rules which match
against elements in netfilter's connection tracking table.
Shorewall automatically detects the availability of this
extension and reports its availability in the output of the
start, restart and check commands.<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Connection Tracking Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
If this extension is available, the ruleset generated by
Shorewall is changed in the following ways:</li>
<li style=
"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;">
<ul>
<li>To handle 'norfc1918' filtering, Shorewall will not
create chains in the mangle table but will rather do all
'norfc1918' filtering in the filter table (rfc1918
chain).</li>
<li>Recall that Shorewall DNAT rules generate two
netfilter rules; one in the nat table and one in the
filter table. If the Connection Tracking Match Extension
is available, the rule in the filter table is extended to
check that the original destination address was the same
as specified (or defaulted to) in the DNAT rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The shell used to interpret the firewall script
(/usr/share/shorewall/firewall) may now be specified using
the SHOREWALL_SHELL parameter in shorewall.conf.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'ipcalc' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ipcalc [ &lt;address&gt;
&lt;netmask&gt; | &lt;address&gt;/&lt;vlsm&gt; ]<br>
<br>
Examples:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]# shorewall
ipcalc 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
CIDR=192.168.1.0/24<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETMASK=255.255.255.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
NETWORK=192.168.1.0<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
BROADCAST=192.168.1.255<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@wookie root]#<br>
<br>
Warning:<br>
<br>
If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmatic (ash or
dash), then the ipcalc command produces incorrect information
for IP addresses 128.0.0.0-1 and for /1 networks. Bash should
produce correct information for all valid IP addresses.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>An 'iprange' command has been added to
/sbin/shorewall.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; iprange
&lt;address&gt;-&lt;address&gt;<br>
<br>
This command decomposes a range of IP addressses into a list
of network and host addresses. The command can be useful if
you need to construct an efficient set of rules that accept
connections from a range of network addresses.<br>
<br>
Note: If your shell only supports 32-bit signed arithmetic
(ash or dash) then the range may not span 128.0.0.0.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#
shorewall iprange 192.168.1.4-192.168.12.9<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.4/30<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.8/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.16/28<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.32/27<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.64/26<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.1.128/25<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.2.0/23<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.4.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.8.0/22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.0/29<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 192.168.12.8/31<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [root@gateway root]#<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A list of host/net addresses is now allowed in an entry
in /etc/shorewall/hosts.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; foo&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth1:192.168.1.0/24,192.168.2.0/24<br>
<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>7/4/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.6 Beta 1</b></p>
<p><b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A problem seen on RH7.3 systems where Shorewall
encountered start errors when started using the "service"
mechanism has been worked around.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Where a list of IP addresses appears in the DEST column
of a DNAT[-] rule, Shorewall incorrectly created multiple
DNAT rules in the nat table (one for each element in the
list). Shorewall now correctly creates a single DNAT rule
with multiple "--to-destination" clauses.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>New Features:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A 'newnotsyn' interface option has been added. This
option may be specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
overrides the setting NEWNOTSYN=No for packets arriving on
the associated interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The means for specifying a range of IP addresses in
/etc/shorewall/masq to use for SNAT is now documented.
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes is enabled for address ranges.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall can now add IP addresses to subnets other than
the first one on an interface.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>DNAT[-] rules may now be used to load balance
(round-robin) over a set of servers. Up to 256 servers may be
specified in a range of addresses given as &lt;first
address&gt;-&lt;last address&gt;.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; DNAT net loc:192.168.10.2-192.168.10.5 tcp
80<br>
<br>
Note that this capability has previously been available
using a combination of a DNAT- rule and one or more ACCEPT
rules. That technique is still preferable for load-balancing
over a large number of servers (&gt; 16) since specifying a
range in the DNAT rule causes one filter table ACCEPT rule to
be generated for each IP address in the range.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The NAT_ENABLED, MANGLE_ENABLED and MULTIPORT
configuration options have been removed and have been
replaced by code that detects whether these capabilities are
present in the current kernel. The output of the start,
restart and check commands have been enhanced to report the
outcome:<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for the Connection Tracking Match Extension has
been added. This extension is available in recent
kernel/iptables releases and allows for rules which match
against elements in netfilter's connection tracking table.
Shorewall automatically detects the availability of this
extension and reports its availability in the output of the
start, restart and check commands.<br>
<br>
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter
capabilities:<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;NAT: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Packet Mangling: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Multi-port Match: Available<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;Connection Tracking Match: Available<br>
Verifying Configuration...<br>
<br>
If this extension is available, the ruleset generated by
Shorewall is changed in the following ways:</li>
<li style=
"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;">
<ul>
<li>To handle 'norfc1918' filtering, Shorewall will not
create chains in the mangle table but will rather do all
'norfc1918' filtering in the filter table (rfc1918
chain).</li>
<li>Recall that Shorewall DNAT rules generate two
netfilter rules; one in the nat table and one in the
filter table. If the Connection Tracking Match Extension
is available, the rule in the filter table is extended to
check that the original destination address was the same
as specified (or defaulted to) in the DNAT rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>The shell used to interpret the firewall script
(/usr/share/shorewall/firewall) may now be specified using
the SHOREWALL_SHELL parameter in shorewall.conf.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>6/17/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.5</b></p>
<p>Problems Corrected:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The command "shorewall debug try &lt;directory&gt;" now
correctly traces the attempt.</li>
<li>The INCLUDE directive now works properly in the zones
file; previously, INCLUDE in that file was ignored.</li>
<li>/etc/shorewall/routestopped records with an empty second
column are no longer ignored.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p>New Features:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>The ORIGINAL DEST column in a DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] rule
may now contain a list of addresses. If the list begins with
"!' then the rule will take effect only if the original
destination address in the connection request does not match
any of the addresses listed.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>6/15/2003 - Shorewall, Kernel 2.4.21 and iptables
1.2.8</b></p>
<p>The firewall at shorewall.net has been upgraded to the
2.4.21 kernel and iptables 1.2.8 (using the "official" RPM from
netfilter.org). No problems have been encountered with this set
of software. The Shorewall version is 1.4.4b plus the
accumulated changes for 1.4.5.<br>
</p>
<p><b>6/8/2003 - Updated Samples</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Francesca Smith, the samples have been updated to
Shorewall version 1.4.4.</p>
<p><b>5/29/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.4b</b></p>
<p>Groan -- This version corrects a problem whereby the
--log-level was not being set when logging via syslog. The most
commonly reported symptom was that Shorewall messages were
being written to the console even though console logging was
correctly configured per FAQ 16.<br>
</p>
<p><b>5/27/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.4a</b></p>
The Fireparse --log-prefix fiasco continues. Tuomo Soini has
pointed out that the code in 1.4.4 restricts the length of
short zone names to 4 characters. I've produced version 1.4.4a
that restores the previous 5-character limit by conditionally
omitting the log rule number when the LOGFORMAT doesn't contain
'%d'. <br>
<p><b>5/23/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.4</b></p>
I apologize for the rapid-fire releases but since there is a
potential configuration change required to go from 1.4.3a to
1.4.4, I decided to make it a full release rather than just a
bug-fix release. <br>
<br>
<b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Problems corrected:</b><br>
<blockquote>
None.<br>
</blockquote>
<b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New Features:<br>
</b>
<ol>
<li>A REDIRECT- rule target has been added. This target
behaves for REDIRECT in the same way as DNAT- does for DNAT
in that the Netfilter nat table REDIRECT rule is added but
not the companion filter table ACCEPT rule.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The LOGMARKER variable has been renamed LOGFORMAT and has
been changed to a 'printf' formatting template which accepts
three arguments (the chain name, logging rule number and the
disposition). To use LOGFORMAT with fireparse (<a href=
"http://www.fireparse.com">http://www.fireparse.com</a>), set
it as:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; LOGFORMAT="fp=%s:%d
a=%s "<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<b>CAUTION:</b> /sbin/shorewall uses the leading part of the
LOGFORMAT string (up to but not including the first '%') to
find log messages in the 'show log', 'status' and 'hits'
commands. This part should not be omitted (the LOGFORMAT
should not begin with "%") and the leading part should be
sufficiently unique for /sbin/shorewall to identify Shorewall
messages.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>When logging is specified on a DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-]
rule, the logging now takes place in the nat table rather
than in the filter table. This way, only those connections
that actually undergo DNAT or redirection will be logged.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/20/2003 - Shorewall-1.4.3a</b><br>
</p>
This version primarily corrects the documentation included in
the .tgz and in the .rpm. In addition: <br>
<ol>
<li>(This change is in 1.4.3 but is not documented) If you
are running iptables 1.2.7a and kernel 2.4.20, then Shorewall
will return reject replies as follows:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) tcp - RST<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) udp - ICMP port unreachable<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; c) icmp - ICMP host unreachable<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; d) Otherwise - ICMP host prohibited<br>
If you are running earlier software, Shorewall will follow
it's traditional convention:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) tcp - RST<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) Otherwise - ICMP port unreachable</li>
<li>UDP port 135 is now silently dropped in the common.def
chain. Remember that this chain is traversed just before a
DROP or REJECT policy is enforced.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/18/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.3</b><br>
</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>Problems Corrected:<br>
</b>
<ol>
<li>There were several cases where Shorewall would fail to
remove a temporary directory from /tmp. These cases have been
corrected.</li>
<li>The rules for allowing all traffic via the loopback
interface have been moved to before the rule that drops
status=INVALID packets. This insures that all loopback
traffic is allowed even if Netfilter connection tracking is
confused.</li>
</ol>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>New Features:<br>
</b>
<ol>
<li>&nbsp;IPV6-IPV4 (6to4) tunnels are now supported in the
/etc/shorewall/tunnels file.</li>
<li value="2">You may now change the leading portion of the
--log-prefix used by Shorewall using the LOGMARKER variable
in shorewall.conf. By default, "Shorewall:" is used.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>5/10/2003 - Shorewall Mirror in Asia<br>
</b></p>
<p>Ed Greshko has established a mirror in Taiwan -- Thanks
Ed!<br>
</p>
<p><b>5/8/2003 - Shorewall Mirror in Chile</b></p>
Thanks to Darcy Ganga, there is now an HTTP mirror in Santiago
Chile.
<p><b>4/21/2003 - Samples updated for Shorewall version
1.4.2</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Francesca Smith, the sample configurations are now
upgraded to Shorewall version 1.4.2.</p>
<p><b>4/9/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.2</b><br>
</p>
<p><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Problems Corrected:</b></p>
<blockquote>
<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>
</ol>
</blockquote>
<p><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; New Features:</b></p>
<ol>
<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>
<br>
</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>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Examples:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall/params.mgmt:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; MGMT_SERVERS=1.1.1.1,2.2.2.2,3.3.3.3<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; TIME_SERVERS=4.4.4.4<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; BACKUP_SERVERS=5.5.5.5<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ----- end params.mgmt -----<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall/params:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; # Shorewall 1.3 /etc/shorewall/params<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; [..]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; #######################################<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp;INCLUDE params.mgmt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; # params unique to this host here<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; #LAST LINE - ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS ONE -
DO NOT REMOVE<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ----- end params -----<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall/rules.mgmt:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT
net:$MGMT_SERVERS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
$FW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT
$FW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net:$TIME_SERVERS&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; udp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
123<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT
$FW&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
net:$BACKUP_SERVERS&nbsp; tcp&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 22<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ----- end rules.mgmt -----<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; shorewall/rules:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; # Shorewall version 1.3 - Rules File<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; [..]<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; #######################################<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; INCLUDE rules.mgmt&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; # rules unique to this host here<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; #LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE
-- DO NOT REMOVE<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; ----- end rules -----<br>
&nbsp;<br>
INCLUDE's may be nested to a level of 3 -- further nested
INCLUDE directives are ignored with a warning message.<br>
<br>
</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>
&nbsp;<br>
The 'routeback' option is similar to the old 'multi' option
with two exceptions:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) The option pertains to a particular
zone,interface,address tuple.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; 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>
&nbsp;<br>
See the '<a href="upgrade_issues.htm">Upgrade Issues</a>'
for information about how this new option may affect your
configuration.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>3/24/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.1</b></p>
<p>This release follows up on 1.4.0. It corrects a problem
introduced in 1.4.0 and removes additional warts.<br>
<br>
<b>Problems Corrected:</b><br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>When Shorewall 1.4.0 is run under the ash shell (such as
on Bering/LEAF), it can attempt to add ECN disabling rules
even if the /etc/shorewall/ecn file is empty. That problem
has been corrected so that ECN disabling rules are only added
if there are entries in /etc/shorewall/ecn.</li>
</ol>
<b>New Features:</b><br>
<blockquote>
Note: In the list that follows, the term <i>group</i> refers
to a particular network or subnetwork (which may be 0.0.0.0/0
or it may be a host address) accessed through a particular
interface. Examples:<br>
<blockquote>
eth0:0.0.0.0/0<br>
eth2:192.168.1.0/24<br>
eth3:192.0.2.123<br>
</blockquote>
You can use the "shorewall check" command to see the groups
associated with each of your zones.<br>
</blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Beginning with Shorewall 1.4.1, if a zone Z comprises
more than one group then if there is no explicit Z to Z
policy and there are no rules governing traffic from Z to Z
then Shorewall will permit all traffic between the groups in
the zone.</li>
<li>Beginning with Shorewall 1.4.1, Shorewall will never
create rules to handle traffic from a group to itself.</li>
<li>A NONE policy is introduced in 1.4.1. When a policy of
NONE is specified from Z1 to Z2:</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li>There may be no rules created that govern connections
from Z1 to Z2.</li>
<li>Shorewall will not create any infrastructure to handle
traffic from Z1 to Z2.</li>
</ul>
See the <a href="upgrade_issues.htm">upgrade issues</a> for a
discussion of how these changes may affect your configuration.
<p><b>3/17/2003 - Shorewall 1.4.0</b></p>
Shorewall 1.4 represents the next step in the evolution of
Shorewall. The main thrust of the initial release is simply to
remove the cruft that has accumulated in Shorewall over time.
<br>
<br>
<b>IMPORTANT: Shorewall 1.4.0 requires</b> <b>the iproute
package ('ip' utility).</b><br>
<br>
Function from 1.3 that has been omitted from this version
include:<br>
<ol>
<li>The MERGE_HOSTS variable in shorewall.conf is no longer
supported. Shorewall 1.4 behavior is the same as 1.3 with
MERGE_HOSTS=Yes.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Interface names of the form
&lt;device&gt;:&lt;integer&gt; in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
now generate an error.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall 1.4 implements behavior consistent with
OLD_PING_HANDLING=No. OLD_PING_HANDLING=Yes will generate an
error at startup as will specification of the 'noping' or
'filterping' interface options.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The 'routestopped' option in the
/etc/shorewall/interfaces and /etc/shorewall/hosts files is
no longer supported and will generate an error at startup if
specified.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The Shorewall 1.2 syntax for DNAT and REDIRECT rules is
no longer accepted.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The ALLOWRELATED variable in shorewall.conf is no longer
supported. Shorewall 1.4 behavior is the same as 1.3 with
ALLOWRELATED=Yes.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The icmp.def file has been removed.<br>
</li>
</ol>
Changes for 1.4 include:<br>
<ol>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file has been
completely reorganized into logical sections.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>LOG is now a valid action for a rule
(/etc/shorewall/rules).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The firewall script and version file are now installed in
/usr/share/shorewall.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Late arriving DNS replies are now silently dropped in the
common chain by default.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>In addition to behaving like OLD_PING_HANDLING=No,
Shorewall 1.4 no longer unconditionally accepts outbound ICMP
packets. So if you want to 'ping' from the firewall, you will
need the appropriate rule or policy.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>CONTINUE is now a valid action for a rule
(/etc/shorewall/rules).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>802.11b devices with names of the form wlan&lt;n&gt; now
support the 'maclist' option.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN - RFC 3168) may now
be turned off on a host or network basis using the new
/etc/shorewall/ecn file. To use this facility:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) You must be running kernel 2.4.20<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) You must have applied the patch in<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;
http://www.shorewall/net/pub/shorewall/ecn/patch.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; c) You must have iptables 1.2.7a installed.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/params file is now processed first so
that variables may be used in the
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li value="10">Shorewall now gives a more helpful diagnostic
when the 'ipchains' compatibility kernel module is loaded and
a 'shorewall start' command is issued.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The SHARED_DIR variable has been removed from
shorewall.conf. This variable was for use by package
maintainers and was not documented for general use.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Shorewall now ignores 'default' routes when detecting
masq'd networks.</li>
</ol>
<p><b>3/10/2003 - Shoreall 1.3.14a</b></p>
<p>A roleup of the following bug fixes and other updates:</p>
<ul>
<li>There is an updated rfc1918 file that reflects the resent
allocation of 222.0.0.0/8 and 223.0.0.0/8.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The documentation for the routestopped file claimed that
a comma-separated list could appear in the second column
while the code only supported a single host or network
address.</li>
<li>Log messages produced by 'logunclean' and 'dropunclean'
were not rate-limited.</li>
<li>802.11b devices with names of the form
<i>wlan</i>&lt;n&gt; don't support the 'maclist' interface
option.</li>
<li>Log messages generated by RFC 1918 filtering are not rate
limited.</li>
<li>The firewall fails to start in the case where you have
"eth0 eth1" in /etc/shorewall/masq and the default route is
through eth1</li>
</ul>
<p><b>2/8/2003 - Shoreawall 1.3.14</b></p>
<p>New features include</p>
<ol>
<li>An OLD_PING_HANDLING option has been added to
shorewall.conf. When set to Yes, Shorewall ping handling is
as it has always been (see
http://www.shorewall.net/ping.html).<br>
<br>
When OLD_PING_HANDLING=No, icmp echo (ping) is handled via
rules and policies just like any other connection request.
The FORWARDPING=Yes option in shorewall.conf and the 'noping'
and 'filterping' options in /etc/shorewall/interfaces will
all generate an error.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>It is now possible to direct Shorewall to create a
"label" such as&nbsp; "eth0:0" for IP addresses that it
creates under ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes.
This is done by specifying the label instead of just the
interface name:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) In the INTERFACE column of
/etc/shorewall/masq<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) In the INTERFACE column of
/etc/shorewall/nat<br>
&nbsp;</li>
<li>Support for OpenVPN Tunnels.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Support for VLAN devices with names of the form $DEV.$VID
(e.g., eth0.0)<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>In /etc/shorewall/tcrules, the MARK value may be
optionally followed by ":" and either 'F' or 'P' to designate
that the marking will occur in the FORWARD or PREROUTING
chains respectively. If this additional specification is
omitted, the chain used to mark packets will be determined by
the setting of the MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN option in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>
When an interface name is entered in the SUBNET column of
the /etc/shorewall/masq file, Shorewall previously
masqueraded traffic from only the first subnet defined on
that interface. It did not masquerade traffic from:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) The subnets associated with other
addresses on the interface.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) Subnets accessed through local
routers.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Beginning with Shorewall 1.3.14, if you enter an interface
name in the SUBNET column, shorewall will use the
firewall's routing table to construct the masquerading/SNAT
rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 1 -- This is how it works in 1.3.14.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# shorewall start<br>
...<br>
Masqueraded Subnets and Hosts:<br>
To 0.0.0.0/0 from 192.168.1.0/24 through eth0 using 206.124.146.176<br>
To 0.0.0.0/0 from 192.168.10.0/24 through eth0 using 206.124.146.176<br>
Processing /etc/shorewall/tos...
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
When upgrading to Shorewall 1.3.14, if you have multiple
local subnets connected to an interface that is specified
in the SUBNET column of an /etc/shorewall/masq entry, your
/etc/shorewall/masq file will need changing. In most cases,
you will simply be able to remove redundant entries. In
some cases though, you might want to change from using the
interface name to listing specific subnetworks if the
change described above will cause masquerading to occur on
subnetworks that you don't wish to masquerade.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 2 -- Suppose that your current config is as
follows:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
eth0 192.168.10.0/24 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
[root@gateway test]#
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, the second entry in
/etc/shorewall/masq is no longer required.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 3 -- What if your current configuration is like
this?<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
[root@gateway test]#
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, you would want to change the
entry in&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/masq to:<br>
<pre>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 192.168.1.0/24 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
<p><br>
<b>2/5/2003 - Shorewall Support included in Webmin
1.060</b></p>
<p>Webmin version 1.060 now has Shorewall support included as
standard. See <a href=
"http://www.webmin.com">http://www.webmin.com</a>.<br>
<b><br>
2/4/2003 - Shorewall 1.3.14-RC1</b></p>
<p>Includes the Beta 2 content plus support for OpenVPN
tunnels.</p>
<p><b>1/28/2003 - Shorewall 1.3.14-Beta2</b></p>
<p>Includes the Beta 1 content plus restores VLAN device names
of the form $dev.$vid (e.g., eth0.1)</p>
<p><b>1/25/2003 - Shorewall 1.3.14-Beta1</b><br>
</p>
<p>The Beta includes the following changes:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>An OLD_PING_HANDLING option has been added to
shorewall.conf. When set to Yes, Shorewall ping handling is
as it has always been (see
http://www.shorewall.net/ping.html).<br>
<br>
When OLD_PING_HANDLING=No, icmp echo (ping) is handled via
rules and policies just like any other connection request.
The FORWARDPING=Yes option in shorewall.conf and the 'noping'
and 'filterping' options in /etc/shorewall/interfaces will
all generate an error.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>It is now possible to direct Shorewall to create a
"label" such as&nbsp; "eth0:0" for IP addresses that it
creates under ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and ADD_SNAT_ALIASES=Yes.
This is done by specifying the label instead of just the
interface name:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) In the INTERFACE column of
/etc/shorewall/masq<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) In the INTERFACE column of
/etc/shorewall/nat<br>
&nbsp;</li>
<li>
When an interface name is entered in the SUBNET column of
the /etc/shorewall/masq file, Shorewall previously
masqueraded traffic from only the first subnet defined on
that interface. It did not masquerade traffic from:<br>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; a) The subnets associated with other
addresses on the interface.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; b) Subnets accessed through local
routers.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Beginning with Shorewall 1.3.14, if you enter an interface
name in the SUBNET column, shorewall will use the
firewall's routing table to construct the masquerading/SNAT
rules.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 1 -- This is how it works in 1.3.14.<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# shorewall start<br>
...<br>
Masqueraded Subnets and Hosts:<br>
To 0.0.0.0/0 from 192.168.1.0/24 through eth0 using 206.124.146.176<br>
To 0.0.0.0/0 from 192.168.10.0/24 through eth0 using 206.124.146.176<br>
Processing /etc/shorewall/tos...
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
When upgrading to Shorewall 1.3.14, if you have multiple
local subnets connected to an interface that is specified
in the SUBNET column of an /etc/shorewall/masq entry, your
/etc/shorewall/masq file will need changing. In most cases,
you will simply be able to remove redundant entries. In
some cases though, you might want to change from using the
interface name to listing specific subnetworks if the
change described above will cause masquerading to occur on
subnetworks that you don't wish to masquerade.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 2 -- Suppose that your current config is as
follows:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
eth0 192.168.10.0/24 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
[root@gateway test]#
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, the second entry in
/etc/shorewall/masq is no longer required.<br>
&nbsp;<br>
Example 3 -- What if your current configuration is like
this?<br>
&nbsp;<br>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# cat /etc/shorewall/masq<br>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
<pre>
[root@gateway test]# ip route show dev eth2<br>
192.168.1.0/24 scope link<br>
192.168.10.0/24 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.10.254<br>
[root@gateway test]#
</pre>
&nbsp;<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; In this case, you would want to change the
entry in&nbsp; /etc/shorewall/masq to:<br>
<pre>
#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS<br>
eth0 192.168.1.0/24 206.124.146.176<br>
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE
</pre>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/18/2003 - Shorewall 1.3.13 Documentation in PDF
Format</b></p>
<p>Juraj Ontkanin has produced a PDF containing the Shorewall
1.3.13 documenation. the PDF may be downloaded from</p>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/" target=
"_self">ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/">http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/</a>
<p><b>1/17/2003 - shorewall.net has MOVED</b><b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Thanks to the generosity of Alex Martin and <a href=
"http://www.rettc.com">Rett Consulting</a>, www.shorewall.net
and ftp.shorewall.net are now hosted on a system in Bellevue,
Washington. A big thanks to Alex for making this happen.<br>
</p>
<p><b>1/13/2003 - Shorewall 1.3.13<br>
</b></p>
<p>Just includes a few things that I had on the burner:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>A new 'DNAT-' action has been added for entries in the
/etc/shorewall/rules file. DNAT- is intended for advanced
users who wish to minimize the number of rules that
connection requests must traverse.<br>
<br>
A Shorewall DNAT rule actually generates two iptables rules:
a header rewriting rule in the 'nat' table and an ACCEPT rule
in the 'filter' table. A DNAT- rule only generates the first
of these rules. This is handy when you have several DNAT
rules that would generate the same ACCEPT rule.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; Here are three rules from my previous rules
file:<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DNAT&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp; dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp smtp - 206.124.146.178<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DNAT&nbsp;&nbsp;
net&nbsp; dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp smtp - 206.124.146.179<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT net&nbsp;
dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp www,smtp,ftp,...<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; These three rules ended up generating _three_
copies of<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT
net&nbsp; dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp smtp<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp; By writing the rules this way, I end up with
only one copy of the ACCEPT rule.<br>
<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DNAT-&nbsp;
net&nbsp; dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp smtp -&nbsp;
206.124.146.178<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; DNAT-&nbsp;
net&nbsp; dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp smtp -&nbsp;
206.124.146.179<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ACCEPT net&nbsp;
dmz:206.124.146.177 tcp www,smtp,ftp,....<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>The 'shorewall check' command now prints out the
applicable policy between each pair of zones.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A new CLEAR_TC option has been added to shorewall.conf.
If this option is set to 'No' then Shorewall won't clear the
current traffic control rules during [re]start. This setting
is intended for use by people that prefer to configure
traffic shaping when the network interfaces come up rather
than when the firewall is started. If that is what you want
to do, set TC_ENABLED=Yes and CLEAR_TC=No and do not supply
an /etc/shorewall/tcstart file. That way, your traffic
shaping rules can still use the 'fwmark' classifier based on
packet marking defined in /etc/shorewall/tcrules.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>A new SHARED_DIR variable has been added that allows
distribution packagers to easily move the shared directory
(default /usr/lib/shorewall). Users should never have a need
to change the value of this shorewall.conf setting.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>1/6/2003 -
<big><big><big>BURNOUT</big></big></big></b></p>
<p><b>Until further notice, I will not be involved in either
Shorewall Development or Shorewall Support</b></p>
<p><b>-Tom Eastep</b><br>
</p>
<p><b>12/30/2002 - Shorewall Documentation in PDF
Format</b></p>
<p>Juraj Ontkanin has produced a PDF containing the Shorewall
1.3.12 documenation. the PDF may be downloaded from</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/" target=
"_self">ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/">http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
</p>
<p><b>12/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Released</b></p>
<p>Features include:<br>
</p>
<ol>
<li>"shorewall refresh" now reloads the traffic shaping rules
(tcrules and tcstart).</li>
<li>"shorewall debug [re]start" now turns off debugging after
an error occurs. This places the point of the failure near
the end of the trace rather than up in the middle of it.</li>
<li>"shorewall [re]start" has been speeded up by more than
40% with my configuration. Your milage may vary.</li>
<li>A "shorewall show classifiers" command has been added
which shows the current packet classification filters. The
output from this command is also added as a separate page in
"shorewall monitor"</li>
<li>ULOG (must be all caps) is now accepted as a valid syslog
level and causes the subject packets to be logged using the
ULOG target rather than the LOG target. This allows you to
run ulogd (available from <a href=
"http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html">http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html</a>)
and log all Shorewall messages <a href=
"shorewall_logging.html">to a separate log file</a>.</li>
<li>If you are running a kernel that has a FORWARD chain in
the mangle table ("shorewall show mangle" will show you the
chains in the mangle table), you can set
MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>. This allows for
marking input packets based on their destination even when
you are using Masquerading or SNAT.</li>
<li>I have cluttered up the /etc/shorewall directory with
empty 'init', 'start', 'stop' and 'stopped' files. If you
already have a file with one of these names, don't worry --
the upgrade process won't overwrite your file.</li>
<li>I have added a new RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL variable to <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>. This variable
specifies the syslog level at which packets are logged as a
result of entries in the /etc/shorewall/rfc1918 file.
Previously, these packets were always logged at the 'info'
level.<br>
</li>
</ol>
<p><b>12/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Beta 3<br>
</b></p>
This version corrects a problem with Blacklist logging. In Beta
2, if BLACKLIST_LOG_LEVEL was set to anything but ULOG, the
firewall would fail to start and "shorewall refresh" would also
fail.<br>
<p><b>12/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.12 Beta 2</b></p>
<p>The first public Beta version of Shorewall 1.3.12 is now
available (Beta 1 was made available only to a limited
audience).<br>
</p>
Features include:<br>
<ol>
<li>"shorewall refresh" now reloads the traffic shaping rules
(tcrules and tcstart).</li>
<li>"shorewall debug [re]start" now turns off debugging after
an error occurs. This places the point of the failure near
the end of the trace rather than up in the middle of it.</li>
<li>"shorewall [re]start" has been speeded up by more than
40% with my configuration. Your milage may vary.</li>
<li>A "shorewall show classifiers" command has been added
which shows the current packet classification filters. The
output from this command is also added as a separate page in
"shorewall monitor"</li>
<li>ULOG (must be all caps) is now accepted as a valid syslog
level and causes the subject packets to be logged using the
ULOG target rather than the LOG target. This allows you to
run ulogd (available from <a href=
"http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html">http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html</a>)
and log all Shorewall messages <a href=
"shorewall_logging.html">to a separate log file</a>.</li>
<li>If you are running a kernel that has a FORWARD chain in
the mangle table ("shorewall show mangle" will show you the
chains in the mangle table), you can set
MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=Yes in shorewall.conf. This allows for
marking input packets based on their destination even when
you are using Masquerading or SNAT.</li>
<li>I have cluttered up the /etc/shorewall directory with
empty 'init', 'start', 'stop' and 'stopped' files. If you
already have a file with one of these names, don't worry --
the upgrade process won't overwrite your file.</li>
</ol>
You may download the Beta from:<br>
<blockquote>
<a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
<a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta" target=
"_top">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a><br>
</blockquote>
<p><b>12/12/2002 - Mandrake Multi Network Firewall <a href=
"http://www.mandrakesoft.com"><img src="images/logo2.png" alt=
"Powered by Mandrake Linux" border="0" height="21" width="140">
</a></b></p>
Shorewall is at the center of MandrakeSoft's recently-announced
<a href=
"http://www.mandrakestore.com/mdkinc/index.php?PAGE=tab_0/menu_0.php&amp;id_art=250&amp;LANG_=en#GOTO_250">
Multi Network Firewall (MNF)</a> product. Here is the <a href=
"http://www.mandrakesoft.com/company/press/pr?n=/pr/products/2403">
press release</a>.<br>
<p><b>12/7/2002 - Shorewall Support for Mandrake 9.0</b></p>
<p>Two months and 3 days after I ordered Mandrake 9.0, it was
finally delivered. I have installed 9.0 on one of my systems
and I am now in a position to support Shorewall users who run
Mandrake 9.0.</p>
<p><b>12/6/2002 - Debian 1.3.11a Packages Available<br>
</b></p>
<p>Apt-get sources listed at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html.</a></p>
<p><b>12/3/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.11a</b></p>
<p>This is a bug-fix roll up which includes Roger Aich's fix
for DNAT with excluded subnets (e.g., "DNAT foo!bar ...").
Current 1.3.11 users who don't need rules of this type need not
upgrade to 1.3.11.</p>
<p><b>11/24/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.11</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A 'tcpflags' option has been added to entries in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a>.
This option causes Shorewall to make a set of sanity check on
TCP packet header flags.</li>
<li>It is now allowed to use 'all' in the SOURCE or DEST
column in a <a href="Documentation.htm#Rules">rule</a>. When
used, 'all' must appear by itself (in may not be qualified)
and it does not enable intra-zone traffic. For example, the
rule<br>
<br>
&nbsp; &nbsp; ACCEPT loc all tcp 80<br>
<br>
does not enable http traffic from 'loc' to 'loc'.</li>
<li>Shorewall's use of the 'echo' command is now compatible
with bash clones such as ash and dash.</li>
<li>fw-&gt;fw policies now generate a startup error.
fw-&gt;fw rules generate a warning and are ignored</li>
</ul>
<p><b>11/14/2002 - Shorewall Documentation in PDF
Format</b></p>
<p>Juraj Ontkanin has produced a PDF containing the Shorewall
1.3.10 documenation. the PDF may be downloaded from</p>
<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/" target=
"_self">ftp://slovakia.shorewall.net/mirror/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=
"http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/">http://slovakia.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/pdf/</a><br>
</p>
<p><b>11/09/2002 - Shorewall is Back at SourceForge</b></p>
<p>The main Shorewall 1.3 web site is now back at SourceForge
at <a href="http://shorewall.sf.net" target=
"_top">http://shorewall.sf.net</a>.<br>
</p>
<p><b>11/09/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.10</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>You may now <a href="IPSEC.htm#Dynamic">define the
contents of a zone dynamically</a> with the <a href=
"starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">"shorewall add" and
"shorewall delete" commands</a>. These commands are expected
to be used primarily within <a href=
"http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Efreeswan/">FreeS/Wan</a> updown
scripts.</li>
<li>Shorewall can now do <a href="MAC_Validation.html">MAC
verification</a> on ethernet segments. You can specify the
set of allowed MAC addresses on the segment and you can
optionally tie each MAC address to one or more IP
addresses.</li>
<li>PPTP Servers and Clients running on the firewall system
may now be defined in the <a href=
"PPTP.htm">/etc/shorewall/tunnels</a> file.</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecnat' tunnel type is supported for use when
the <a href="IPSEC.htm">remote IPSEC endpoint is behind a NAT
gateway</a>.</li>
<li>The PATH used by Shorewall may now be specified in <a
href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</a></li>
<li>The main firewall script is now
/usr/lib/shorewall/firewall. The script in
/etc/init.d/shorewall is very small and uses /sbin/shorewall
to do the real work. This change makes custom distributions
such as for Debian and for Gentoo easier to manage since it
is /etc/init.d/shorewall that tends to have
distribution-dependent code</li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/24/2002 - Shorewall is now in Gentoo Linux</b> <a
href="http://www.gentoo.org"><br>
</a></p>
Alexandru Hartmann reports that his Shorewall package is now a
part of <a href="http://www.gentoo.org">the Gentoo Linux
distribution</a>. Thanks Alex!<br>
<p><b>10/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.10 Beta 1</b></p>
In this version:<br>
<ul>
<li>You may now <a href="IPSEC.htm#Dynamic">define the
contents of a zone dynamically</a> with the <a href=
"starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">"shorewall add" and
"shorewall delete" commands</a>. These commands are expected
to be used primarily within <a href=
"http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Efreeswan/">FreeS/Wan</a> updown
scripts.</li>
<li>Shorewall can now do <a href="MAC_Validation.html">MAC
verification</a> on ethernet segments. You can specify the
set of allowed MAC addresses on the segment and you can
optionally tie each MAC address to one or more IP
addresses.</li>
<li>PPTP Servers and Clients running on the firewall system
may now be defined in the <a href=
"PPTP.htm">/etc/shorewall/tunnels</a> file.</li>
<li>A new 'ipsecnat' tunnel type is supported for use when
the <a href="IPSEC.htm">remote IPSEC endpoint is behind a NAT
gateway</a>.</li>
<li>The PATH used by Shorewall may now be specified in <a
href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</a></li>
<li>The main firewall script is now
/usr/lib/shorewall/firewall. The script in
/etc/init.d/shorewall is very small and uses /sbin/shorewall
to do the real work. This change makes custom distributions
such as for Debian and for Gentoo easier to manage since it
is /etc/init.d/shorewall that tends to have
distribution-dependent code.</li>
</ul>
You may download the Beta from:<br>
<ul>
<li><a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a></li>
<li><a href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta"
target=
"_top">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/Beta</a></li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/10/2002 - &nbsp;Debian 1.3.9b Packages Available<br>
</b></p>
<p>Apt-get sources listed at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html.</a></p>
<p><b>10/9/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9b</b></p>
This release rolls up fixes to the installer and to the
firewall script.<br>
<p><b>10/6/2002 - Shorewall.net now running on RH8.0<br>
</b><br>
The firewall and server here at shorewall.net are now running
RedHat release 8.0.<br>
<b><br>
9/30/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9a</b></p>
Roles up the fix for broken tunnels.<br>
<p><b>9/30/2002 - TUNNELS Broken in 1.3.9!!!</b></p>
There is an updated firewall script at <a href=
"ftp://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.9/firewall"
target=
"_top">ftp://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.9/firewall</a>
-- copy that file to /usr/lib/shorewall/firewall.<br>
<p><b>9/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.9</b></p>
<p>In this version:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames">DNS
Names</a> are now allowed in Shorewall config files (although
I recommend against using them).</li>
<li>The connection SOURCE may now be qualified by both
interface and IP address in a <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Rules">Shorewall rule</a>.</li>
<li>Shorewall startup is now disabled after initial
installation until the file /etc/shorewall/startup_disabled
is removed. This avoids nasty surprises during reboot for
users who install Shorewall but don't configure it.</li>
<li>The 'functions' and 'version' files and the 'firewall'
symbolic link have been moved from /var/lib/shorewall to
/usr/lib/shorewall to appease the LFS police at Debian.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>9/23/2002 - Full Shorewall Site/Mailing List Archive
Search Capability Restored</b><br>
</p>
<img src="images/j0233056.gif" alt="Brown Paper Bag" align=
"left" height="86" width="50"> A couple of recent configuration
changes at www.shorewall.net broke the Search facility:<br>
<blockquote>
<ol>
<li>Mailing List Archive Search was not available.</li>
<li>The Site Search index was incomplete</li>
<li>Only one page of matches was presented.</li>
</ol>
</blockquote>
Hopefully these problems are now corrected.
<p><b>9/23/2002 - Full Shorewall Site/Mailing List Archive
Search Capability Restored<br>
</b></p>
A couple of recent configuration changes at www.shorewall.net
had the negative effect of breaking the Search facility:<br>
<ol>
<li>Mailing List Archive Search was not available.</li>
<li>The Site Search index was incomplete</li>
<li>Only one page of matches was presented.</li>
</ol>
Hopefully these problems are now corrected.<br>
<p><b>9/18/2002 - &nbsp;Debian 1.3.8 Packages Available<br>
</b></p>
<p>Apt-get sources listed at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html.</a></p>
<p><b>9/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.8</b></p>
<p>In this version:<br>
</p>
<ul>
<li>A <a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">NEWNOTSYN</a> option
has been added to shorewall.conf. This option determines
whether Shorewall accepts TCP packets which are not part of
an established connection and that are not 'SYN' packets (SYN
flag on and ACK flag off).</li>
<li>The need for the 'multi' option to communicate between
zones za and zb on the same interface is removed in the case
where the chain 'za2zb' and/or 'zb2za' exists. 'za2zb' will
exist if:</li>
<li style=
"list-style-type: none; list-style-position: outside; list-style-image: none;">
<ul>
<li>There is a policy for za to zb; or</li>
<li>There is at least one rule for za to zb.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/blacklist file now contains three
columns. In addition to the SUBNET/ADDRESS column, there are
optional PROTOCOL and PORT columns to block only certain
applications from the blacklisted addresses.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p><b>9/11/2002 - Debian 1.3.7c Packages Available</b></p>
<p>Apt-get sources listed at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>9/2/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.7c</b></p>
<p>This is a role up of a fix for "DNAT" rules where the source
zone is $FW (fw).</p>
<p><b>8/31/2002 - I'm not available</b></p>
<p>I'm currently on vacation&nbsp; -- please respect my need
for a couple of weeks free of Shorewall problem reports.</p>
<p>-Tom</p>
<p><b>8/26/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.7b</b></p>
<p>This is a role up of the "shorewall refresh" bug fix and the
change which reverses the order of "dhcp" and "norfc1918"
checking.</p>
<p><b>8/26/2002 - French FTP Mirror is Operational</b></p>
<p><a target="_blank" href=
"ftp://france.shorewall.net/pub/mirrors/shorewall">ftp://france.shorewall.net/pub/mirrors/shorewall</a>
is now available.</p>
<p><b>8/25/2002 - Shorewall Mirror in France</b></p>
<p>Thanks to a Shorewall user in Paris, the Shorewall web site
is now mirrored at <a target="_top" href=
"http://france.shorewall.net">http://france.shorewall.net</a>.</p>
<p><b>8/25/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.7a Debian Packages
Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Martignoni reports that the packages for version
1.3.7a are available at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>8/22/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.7 Wins a Brown Paper Bag Award
for its Author -- Shorewall 1.3.7a released<img src=
"images/j0233056.gif" alt="Brown Paper Bag Graphic" align=
"middle" border="0" height="80" width="50"></b></p>
<p>1.3.7a corrects problems occurring in rules file processing
when starting Shorewall 1.3.7.</p>
<p><b>8/22/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.7 Released 8/13/2002</b></p>
<p>Features in this release include:</p>
<ul>
<li>The 'icmp.def' file is now empty! The rules in that file
were required in ipchains firewalls but are not required in
Shorewall. Users who have ALLOWRELATED=No in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a> should see the <a
href="errata.htm#Upgrade">Upgrade Issues</a>.</li>
<li>A 'FORWARDPING' option has been added to <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a>. The effect of
setting this variable to Yes is the same as the effect of
adding an ACCEPT rule for ICMP echo-request in <a href=
"shorewall_extension_scripts.htm">/etc/shorewall/icmpdef</a>.
Users who have such a rule in icmpdef are encouraged to
switch to FORWARDPING=Yes.</li>
<li>The loopback CLASS A Network (127.0.0.0/8) has been added
to the rfc1918 file.</li>
<li>Shorewall now works with iptables 1.2.7</li>
<li>The documentation and web site no longer uses FrontPage
themes.</li>
</ul>
<p>I would like to thank John Distler for his valuable input
regarding TCP SYN and ICMP treatment in Shorewall. That input
has led to marked improvement in Shorewall in the last two
releases.</p>
<p><b>8/13/2002 - Documentation in the <a target="_top" href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/cgi-bin/cvs/cvsweb.cgi">CVS
Repository</a></b></p>
<p>The Shorewall-docs project now contains just the HTML and
image files - the Frontpage files have been removed.</p>
<p><b>8/7/2002 - <i>STABLE</i></b> <b>branch added to <a
target="_top" href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/cgi-bin/cvs/cvsweb.cgi">CVS
Repository</a></b></p>
<p>This branch will only be updated after I release a new
version of Shorewall so you can always update from this branch
to get the latest stable tree.</p>
<p><b>8/7/2002 - <a href="errata.htm#Upgrade">Upgrade
Issues</a> section added to the <a href="errata.htm">Errata
Page</a></b></p>
<p>Now there is one place to go to look for issues involved
with upgrading to recent versions of Shorewall.</p>
<p><b>8/7/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.6</b></p>
<p>This is primarily a bug-fix rollup with a couple of new
features:</p>
<ul>
<li>The latest <a href=
"shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides</a>
including the <a href="shorewall_setup_guide.htm">Shorewall
Setup Guide.</a></li>
<li>Shorewall will now DROP TCP packets that are not part of
or related to an existing connection and that are not SYN
packets. These "New not SYN" packets may be optionally logged
by setting the LOGNEWNOTSYN option in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>.</li>
<li>The processing of "New not SYN" packets may be extended
by commands in the new <a href=
"shorewall_extension_scripts.htm">newnotsyn extension
script</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/30/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5b Released</b></p>
<p>This interim release:</p>
<ul>
<li>Causes the firewall script to remove the lock file if it
is killed.</li>
<li>Once again allows lists in the second column of the <a
href="Documentation.htm#Hosts">/etc/shorewall/hosts</a>
file.</li>
<li>Includes the latest <a href=
"shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/29/2002 - New Shorewall Setup Guide Available</b></p>
<p>The first draft of this guide is available at <a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_setup_guide.htm">http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_setup_guide.htm</a>.
The guide is intended for use by people who are setting up
Shorewall to manage multiple public IP addresses and by people
who want to learn more about Shorewall than is described in the
single-address guides. Feedback on the new guide is
welcome.</p>
<p><b>7/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5 Debian Package
Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Martignoni reports that the packages are version
1.3.5a and are available at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>7/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5a Released</b></p>
<p>This interim release restores correct handling of REDIRECT
rules.</p>
<p><b>7/26/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.5 Released</b></p>
<p>This will be the last Shorewall release for a while. I'm
going to be focusing on rewriting a lot of the
documentation.</p>
<p><b>&nbsp;</b> In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Empty and invalid source and destination qualifiers are
now detected in the rules file. It is a good idea to use the
'shorewall check' command before you issue a 'shorewall
restart' command be be sure that you don't have any
configuration problems that will prevent a successful
restart.</li>
<li>Added <b>MERGE_HOSTS</b> variable in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</a> to provide saner
behavior of the /etc/shorewall/hosts file.</li>
<li>The time that the counters were last reset is now
displayed in the heading of the 'status' and 'show'
commands.</li>
<li>A <b>proxyarp</b> option has been added for entries in <a
href=
"Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a>.
This option facilitates Proxy ARP sub-netting as described in
the Proxy ARP subnetting mini-HOWTO (<a href=
"http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Proxy-ARP-Subnet/">http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Proxy-ARP-Subnet/</a>).
Specifying the proxyarp option for an interface causes
Shorewall to set
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/&lt;interface&gt;/proxy_arp.</li>
<li>The Samples have been updated to reflect the new
capabilities in this release.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/16/2002 - New Mirror in Argentina</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Arturo "Buanzo" Busleiman, there is now a
Shorewall mirror in Argentina. Thanks Buanzo!!!</p>
<p><b>7/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.4 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Routestopped">/etc/shorewall/routestopped</a>
file has been added. This file is intended to eventually
replace the <b>routestopped</b> option in the
/etc/shorewall/interface and /etc/shorewall/hosts files. This
new file makes remote firewall administration easier by
allowing any IP or subnet to be enabled while Shorewall is
stopped.</li>
<li>An /etc/shorewall/stopped <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Scripts">extension script</a> has been
added. This script is invoked after Shorewall has
stopped.</li>
<li>A <b>DETECT_DNAT_ADDRS</b> option has been added to <a
href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shoreall/shorewall.conf</a>.
When this option is selected, DNAT rules only apply when the
destination address is the external interface's primary IP
address.</li>
<li>The <a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart
Guide</a> has been broken into three guides and has been
almost entirely rewritten.</li>
<li>The Samples have been updated to reflect the new
capabilities in this release.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.3 Debian Package
Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the packages are available at
<a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>7/6/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.3 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Entries in /etc/shorewall/interface that use the wildcard
character ("+") now have the "multi" option assumed.</li>
<li>The 'rfc1918' chain in the mangle table has been renamed
'man1918' to make log messages generated from that chain
distinguishable from those generated by the 'rfc1918' chain
in the filter table.</li>
<li>Interface names appearing in the hosts file are now
validated against the interfaces file.</li>
<li>The TARGET column in the rfc1918 file is now checked for
correctness.</li>
<li>The chain structure in the nat table has been changed to
reduce the number of rules that a packet must traverse and to
correct problems with NAT_BEFORE_RULES=No</li>
<li>The "hits" command has been enhanced.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>6/25/2002 - Samples Updated for 1.3.2</b></p>
<p>The comments in the sample configuration files have been
updated to reflect new features introduced in Shorewall
1.3.2.</p>
<p><b>6/25/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Debian Package
Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the package is available at
<a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>6/19/2002 - Documentation Available in PDF Format</b></p>
<p>Thanks to Mike Martinez, the Shorewall Documentation is now
available for <a href="download.htm">download</a> in <a href=
"http://www.adobe.com">Adobe</a> PDF format.</p>
<p><b>6/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.2 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A <a href="Documentation.htm#Starting">logwatch
command</a> has been added to /sbin/shorewall.</li>
<li>A <a href="blacklisting_support.htm">dynamic blacklist
facility</a> has been added.</li>
<li>Support for the <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">Netfilter multiport match
function</a> has been added.</li>
<li>The files <b>firewall, functions</b> and <b>version</b>
have been moved from /etc/shorewall to
/var/lib/shorewall.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>6/6/2002 - Why CVS Web access is Password
Protected</b></p>
<p>Last weekend, I installed the CVS Web package to provide
brower-based access to the Shorewall CVS repository. Since
then, I have had several instances where my server was almost
unusable due to the high load generated by website copying
tools like HTTrack and WebStripper. These mindless tools:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ignore robot.txt files.</li>
<li>Recursively copy everything that they find.</li>
<li>Should be classified as weapons rather than tools.</li>
</ul>
<p>These tools/weapons are particularly damaging when combined
with CVS Web because they doggedly follow every link in the
cgi-generated HTML resulting in 1000s of executions of the
cvsweb.cgi script. Yesterday, I spend several hours
implementing measures to block these tools but unfortunately,
these measures resulted in my server OOM-ing under even
moderate load.</p>
<p>Until I have the time to understand the cause of the OOM (or
until I buy more RAM if that is what is required), CVS Web
access will remain Password Protected.</p>
<p><b>6/5/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Debian Package
Available</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that the package is available at
<a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</p>
<p><b>6/2/2002 - Samples Corrected</b></p>
<p>The 1.3.0 samples configurations had several serious
problems that prevented DNS and SSH from working properly.
These problems have been corrected in the <a href=
"/pub/shorewall/samples-1.3.1">1.3.1 samples.</a></p>
<p><b>6/1/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.1 Released</b></p>
<p>Hot on the heels of 1.3.0, this release:</p>
<ul>
<li>Corrects a serious problem with "all <i>&lt;zone&gt;</i>
CONTINUE" policies. This problem is present in all versions
of Shorewall that support the CONTINUE policy. These previous
versions optimized away the "all2<i>&lt;zone&gt;</i>" chain
and replaced it with the "all2all" chain with the usual
result that a policy of REJECT was enforced rather than the
intended CONTINUE policy.</li>
<li>Adds an <a href=
"Documentation.htm#rfc1918">/etc/shorewall/rfc1918</a> file
for defining the exact behavior of the <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Interfaces">'norfc1918' interface
option</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/29/2002 - Shorewall 1.3.0 Released</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1, Beta 2 and RC1,
Shorewall 1.3.0 includes:</p>
<ul>
<li>A 'filterping' interface option that allows ICMP
echo-request (ping) requests addressed to the firewall to be
handled by entries in /etc/shorewall/rules and
/etc/shorewall/policy.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 RC1 Available</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1 and Beta 2, RC1
(Version 1.2.92) incorporates the following:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for the /etc/shorewall/whitelist file has been
withdrawn. If you need whitelisting, see <a href=
"/1.3/whitelisting_under_shorewall.htm">these
instructions</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/19/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 Beta 2 Available</b></p>
<p>In addition to the changes in Beta 1, this release which
carries the designation 1.2.91 adds:</p>
<ul>
<li>The structure of the firewall is changed markedly. There
is now an INPUT and a FORWARD chain for each interface; this
reduces the number of rules that a packet must traverse,
especially in complicated setups.</li>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Exclude">Sub-zones may now be
excluded from DNAT and REDIRECT rules.</a></li>
<li>The names of the columns in a number of the configuration
files have been changed to be more consistent and
self-explanatory and the documentation has been updated
accordingly.</li>
<li>The sample configurations have been updated for 1.3.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/17/2002 - Shorewall 1.3 Beta 1 Available</b></p>
<p>Beta 1 carries the version designation 1.2.90 and implements
the following features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simplified rule syntax which makes the intent of each
rule clearer and hopefully makes Shorewall easier to
learn.</li>
<li>Upward compatibility with 1.2 configuration files has
been maintained so that current users can migrate to the new
syntax at their convenience.</li>
<li><b><font color="#CC6666">WARNING:&nbsp; Compatibility
with the old parameterized sample configurations has NOT been
maintained. Users still running those configurations should
migrate to the new sample configurations before upgrading to
1.3 Beta 1.</font></b></li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/4/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.13 is Available</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Whitelist">White-listing</a>
is supported.</li>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Policy">SYN-flood
protection</a> is added.</li>
<li>IP addresses added under <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">ADD_IP_ALIASES and
ADD_SNAT_ALIASES</a> now inherit the VLSM and Broadcast
Address of the interface's primary IP address.</li>
<li>The order in which port forwarding DNAT and Static DNAT
<a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">can now be reversed</a> so
that port forwarding rules can override the contents of <a
href="Documentation.htm#NAT">/etc/shorewall/nat</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/30/2002 - Shorewall Debian News</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that Shorewall 1.2.12 is now in
both the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Testing Branch</a> and the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Branch</a>.</p>
<p><b>4/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.12 is Available</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The 'try' command works again</li>
<li>There is now a single RPM that also works with SUSE.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/17/2002 - Shorewall Debian News</b></p>
<p>Lorenzo Marignoni reports that:</p>
<ul>
<li>Shorewall 1.2.10 is in the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/testing/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Testing Branch</a></li>
<li>Shorewall 1.2.11 is in the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Branch</a></li>
</ul>
<p>Thanks, Lorenzo!</p>
<p><b>4/16/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.11 RPM Available for
SUSE</b></p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="mailto:s.mohr@familie-mohr.com">Stefan
Mohr</a>, there is now a Shorewall 1.2.11 <a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/shorewall-1.2-11.i686.suse73.rpm">
SUSE RPM</a> available.</p>
<p><b>4/13/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.11 Available</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>The 'try' command now accepts an optional timeout. If the
timeout is given in the command, the standard configuration
will automatically be restarted after the new configuration
has been running for that length of time. This prevents a
remote admin from being locked out of the firewall in the
case where the new configuration starts but prevents
access.</li>
<li>Kernel route filtering may now be enabled globally using
the new ROUTE_FILTER parameter in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>.</li>
<li>Individual IP source addresses and/or subnets may now be
excluded from masquerading/SNAT.</li>
<li>Simple "Yes/No" and "On/Off" values are now
case-insensitive in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/13/2002 - Hamburg Mirror now has FTP</b></p>
<p>Stefan now has an FTP mirror at <a target="_blank" href=
"ftp://germany.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall">ftp://germany.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall</a>.&nbsp;
Thanks Stefan!</p>
<p><b>4/12/2002 - New Mirror in Hamburg</b></p>
<p>Thanks to <a href="mailto:s.mohr@familie-mohr.com">Stefan
Mohr</a>, there is now a mirror of the Shorewall website at <a
target="_top" href=
"http://germany.shorewall.net">http://germany.shorewall.net</a>.</p>
<p><b>4/10/2002 - Shorewall QuickStart Guide Version 1.1
Available</b></p>
<p><a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">Version 1.1 of the
QuickStart Guide</a> is now available. Thanks to those who have
read version 1.0 and offered their suggestions. Corrections
have also been made to the sample scripts.</p>
<p><b>4/9/2002 - Shorewall QuickStart Guide Version 1.0
Available</b></p>
<p><a href="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">Version 1.0 of the
QuickStart Guide</a> is now available. This Guide and its
accompanying sample configurations are expected to provide a
replacement for the recently withdrawn parameterized
samples.</p>
<p><b>4/8/2002 - Parameterized Samples Withdrawn</b></p>
<p>Although the <a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.2.1/">parameterized
samples</a> have allowed people to get a firewall up and
running quickly, they have unfortunately set the wrong level of
expectation among those who have used them. I am therefore
withdrawing support for the samples and I am recommending that
they not be used in new Shorewall installations.</p>
<p><b>4/2/2002 - Updated Log Parser</b></p>
<p><a href="mailto:JML@redwoodtech.com">John Lodge</a> has
provided an updated version of his <a href=
"pub/shorewall/parsefw/">CGI-based log parser</a> with
corrected date handling.</p>
<p><b>3/30/2002 - Shorewall Website Search Improvements</b></p>
<p>The quick search on the home page now excludes the mailing
list archives. The <a href="htdig/search.html">Extended
Search</a> allows excluding the archives or restricting the
search to just the archives. An archive search form is also
available on the <a href=
"http://lists.shorewall.net/mailing_list.htm">mailing list
information page</a>.</p>
<p><b>3/28/2002 - Debian Shorewall News (From Lorenzo
Martignoni)</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The 1.2.10 Debian Package is available at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</li>
<li>Shorewall 1.2.9 is now in the <a href=
"http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/shorewall.html">Debian
Unstable Distribution</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/25/2002 - Log Parser Available</b></p>
<p><a href="mailto:JML@redwoodtech.com">John Lodge</a> has
provided a <a href="pub/shorewall/parsefw/">CGI-based log
parser</a> for Shorewall. Thanks John.</p>
<p><b>3/20/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.10 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A "shorewall try" command has been added (syntax:
shorewall try <i>&lt;configuration directory&gt;</i>). This
command attempts "shorewall -c <i>&lt;configuration
directory&gt;</i> start" and if that results in the firewall
being stopped due to an error, a "shorewall start" command is
executed. The 'try' command allows you to create a new <a
href="Documentation.htm#Configs">configuration</a> and
attempt to start it; if there is an error that leaves your
firewall in the stopped state, it will automatically be
restarted using the default configuration (in
/etc/shorewall).</li>
<li>A new variable ADD_SNAT_ALIASES has been added to <a
href=
"Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</a>.
If this variable is set to "Yes", Shorewall will
automatically add IP addresses listed in the third column of
the <a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">/etc/shorewall/masq</a>
file.</li>
<li>Copyright notices have been added to the
documenation.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/11/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.9 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>
Filtering by <a href="Documentation.htm#MAC">MAC
address</a> has been added. MAC addresses may be used as
the source address in:
<ul>
<li>Filtering rules (<a href=
"Documentation.htm#Rules">/etc/shorewall/rules</a>)</li>
<li>Traffic Control Classification Rules (<a href=
"traffic_shaping.htm#tcrules">/etc/shorewall/tcrules</a>)</li>
<li>TOS Rules (<a href=
"Documentation.htm#TOS">/etc/shorewall/tos</a>)</li>
<li>Blacklist (<a href=
"Documentation.htm#Blacklist">/etc/shorewall/blacklist</a>)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Several bugs have been fixed</li>
<li>The 1.2.9 Debian Package is also available at <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/1/2002 - 1.2.8 Debian Package is Available</b></p>
<p>See <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/25/2002 - New Two-interface Sample</b></p>
<p>I've enhanced the two interface sample to allow access from
the firewall to servers in the local zone - <a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/LATEST.samples/two-interfaces.tgz">
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/LATEST.samples/two-interfaces.tgz</a></p>
<p><b>2/23/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.8 Released</b></p>
<p>Do to a serious problem with 1.2.7, I am releasing 1.2.8. It
corrects problems associated with the lock file used to prevent
multiple state-changing operations from occuring
simultaneously. My apologies for any inconvenience my
carelessness may have caused.</p>
<p><b>2/22/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.7 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>UPnP probes (UDP destination port 1900) are now silently
dropped in the <i>common</i> chain</li>
<li>RFC 1918 checking in the mangle table has been
streamlined to no longer require packet marking. RFC 1918
checking in the filter table has been changed to require half
as many rules as previously.</li>
<li>A 'shorewall check' command has been added that does a
cursory validation of the zones, interfaces, hosts, rules and
policy files.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>2/18/2002 - 1.2.6 Debian Package is Available</b></p>
<p>See <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.6 Released</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>$-variables may now be used anywhere in the configuration
files except /etc/shorewall/zones.</li>
<li>The interfaces and hosts files now have their contents
validated before any changes are made to the existing
Netfilter configuration. The appearance of a zone name that
isn't defined in /etc/shorewall/zones causes "shorewall
start" and "shorewall restart" to abort without changing the
Shorewall state. Unknown options in either file cause a
warning to be issued.</li>
<li>A problem occurring when BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL was not set
has been corrected.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>2/4/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.5 Debian Package
Available</b></p>
<p>see <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>2/1/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.5 Released</b></p>
<p>Due to installation problems with Shorewall 1.2.4, I have
released Shorewall 1.2.5. Sorry for the rapid-fire
development.</p>
<p>In version 1.2.5:</p>
<ul>
<li>The installation problems have been corrected.</li>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Masq">SNAT</a> is now
supported.</li>
<li>A "shorewall version" command has been added</li>
<li>The default value of the STATEDIR variable in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf has been changed to
/var/lib/shorewall in order to conform to the GNU/Linux File
Hierarchy Standard, Version 2.2.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>1/28/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.4 Released</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The "fw" zone <a href="Documentation.htm#FW">may now be
given a different name</a>.</li>
<li>You may now place end-of-line comments (preceded by '#')
in any of the configuration files</li>
<li>There is now protection against against two state
changing operations occuring concurrently. This is
implemented using the 'lockfile' utility if it is available
(lockfile is part of procmail); otherwise, a less robust
technique is used. The lockfile is created in the STATEDIR
defined in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and has the name
"lock".</li>
<li>"shorewall start" no longer fails if "detect" is
specified in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</a>
for an interface with subnet mask 255.255.255.255.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>1/27/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.3 Debian Package Available</b>
-- see <a href=
"http://security.dsi.unimi.it/%7Elorenzo/debian.html">http://security.dsi.unimi.it/~lorenzo/debian.html</a></p>
<p><b>1/20/2002 - Corrected firewall script
available&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>Corrects a problem with BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL. See <a href=
"errata.htm">the errata</a> for details.</p>
<p><b>1/19/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.3 Released</b></p>
<p>This is a minor feature and bugfix release. The single new
feature is:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for TCP MSS Clamp to PMTU -- This support is
usually required when the internet connection is via PPPoE or
PPTP and may be enabled using the <a href=
"Documentation.htm#ClampMSS">CLAMPMSS</a> option in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</li>
</ul>
<p>The following problems were corrected:</p>
<ul>
<li>The "shorewall status" command no longer hangs.</li>
<li>The "shorewall monitor" command now displays the icmpdef
chain</li>
<li>The CLIENT PORT(S) column in tcrules is no longer
ignored</li>
</ul>
<p><b>1/18/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.2 packaged with new</b> <a
href="http://leaf.sourceforge.net">LEAF</a> <b>release</b></p>
<p>Jacques Nilo and Eric Wolzak have released a kernel 2.4.16
LEAF distribution that includes Shorewall 1.2.2. See <a href=
"http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo">http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo</a>
for details.</p>
<p><b>1/11/2002 - Debian Package (.deb) Now Available -</b>
Thanks to <a href="mailto:lorenzo.martignoni@milug.org">Lorenzo
Martignoni</a>, a 1.2.2 Shorewall Debian package is now
available. There is a link to Lorenzo's site from the <a href=
"download.htm">Shorewall download page</a>.</p>
<p><b>1/9/2002 - Updated 1.2.2 /sbin/shorewall available -</b>
<a href="/pub/shorewall/errata/1.2.2/shorewall">This corrected
version</a> restores the "shorewall status" command to
health.</p>
<p><b>1/8/2002 - Shorewall 1.2.2 Released</b></p>
<p>In version 1.2.2</p>
<ul>
<li>
Support for IP blacklisting has been added
<ul>
<li>You specify whether you want packets from blacklisted
hosts dropped or rejected using the <a href=
"Documentation.htm#BLDisposition">BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION</a>
setting in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</li>
<li>You specify whether you want packets from blacklisted
hosts logged and at what syslog level using the <a href=
"Documentation.htm#BLLoglevel">BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL</a>
setting in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</li>
<li>You list the IP addresses/subnets that you wish to
blacklist in <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Blacklist">/etc/shorewall/blacklist</a></li>
<li>You specify the interfaces you want checked against
the blacklist using the new "<a href=
"Documentation.htm#BLInterface">blacklist</a>" option in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces.</li>
<li>The black list is refreshed from
/etc/shorewall/blacklist by the "shorewall refresh"
command.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
Use of TCP RST replies has been expanded&nbsp;
<ul>
<li>TCP connection requests rejected because of a REJECT
policy are now replied with a TCP RST packet.</li>
<li>TCP connection requests rejected because of a
protocol=all rule in /etc/shorewall/rules are now replied
with a TCP RST packet.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>A <a href="Documentation.htm#Logfile">LOGFILE</a>
specification has been added to
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. LOGFILE is used to tell the
/sbin/shorewall program where to look for Shorewall
messages.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>1/5/2002 - New Parameterized Samples (<a href=
"ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.2.0/" target=
"_blank">version 1.2.0</a>) released.</b> These are minor
updates to the previously-released samples. There are two new
rules added:</p>
<ul>
<li>Unless you have explicitly enabled Auth connections (tcp
port 113) to your firewall, these connections will be
REJECTED rather than DROPPED. This speeds up connection
establishment to some servers.</li>
<li>Orphan DNS replies are now silently dropped.</li>
</ul>
<p>See the README file for upgrade instructions.</p>
<p><b>1/1/2002 - <u><font color="#FF6633">Shorewall Mailing
List Moving</font></u></b></p>
<p>The Shorewall mailing list hosted at <a href=
"http://sourceforge.net">Sourceforge</a> is moving to
Shorewall.net. If you are a current subscriber to the list at
Sourceforge, please <a href=
"shorewall_mailing_list_migration.htm">see these
instructions</a>. If you would like to subscribe to the new
list, visit <a href=
"http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users">http://www.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users</a>.</p>
<p><b>12/31/2001 - Shorewall 1.2.1 Released</b></p>
<p>In version 1.2.1:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#LogUncleanOption">Logging of
Mangled/Invalid Packets</a> is added.&nbsp;</li>
<li>The <a href="IPIP.htm">tunnel script</a> has been
corrected.</li>
<li>'shorewall show tc' now correctly handles tunnels.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>12/21/2001 - Shorewall 1.2.0 Released!</b> - <b>I
couldn't resist releasing 1.2 on 12/21/2001</b></p>
<p>Version 1.2 contains the following new features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for <a href="traffic_shaping.htm">Traffic
Control/Shaping</a></li>
<li>Support for <a href="Documentation.htm#Unclean">Filtering
of Mangled/Invalid Packets</a></li>
<li>Support for <a href="IPIP.htm">GRE Tunnels</a></li>
</ul>
<p>For the next month or so, I will continue to provide
corrections to version 1.1.18 as necessary so that current
version 1.1.x users will not be forced into a quick upgrade to
1.2.0 just to have access to bug fixes.</p>
<p>For those of you who have installed one of the Beta RPMS,
you will need to use the "--oldpackage" option when upgrading
to 1.2.0:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>rpm -Uvh --oldpackage shorewall-1.2-0.noarch.rpm</p>
</blockquote>
<p><b>12/19/2001 - Thanks to <a href=
"mailto:scowles@infohiiway.com">Steve Cowles</a>, there is now
a Shorewall mirror in Texas.</b> This web site is mirrored at
<a href="http://www.infohiiway.com/shorewall" target=
"_top">http://www.infohiiway.com/shorewall</a> and the ftp site
is at <a href=
"ftp://ftp.infohiiway.com/pub/mirrors/shorewall">ftp://ftp.infohiiway.com/pub/mirrors/shorewall</a>.
<b>&nbsp;</b></p>
<p><b>11/30/2001 - A new set of the parameterized <a href=
"ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.18">Sample
Configurations</a> has been released</b>. In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ping is now allowed between the zones.</li>
<li>In the three-interface configuration, it is now possible
to configure the internet services that are to be available
to servers in the DMZ.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>11/20/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.18.&nbsp;</b></p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>The spelling of ADD_IP_ALIASES has been corrected in the
shorewall.conf file</li>
<li>The logic for deleting user-defined chains has been
simplified so that it avoids a bug in the LRP version of the
'cut' utility.</li>
<li>The /var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.conf file has been corrected
to properly display the NAT entry in that file.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>11/19/2001 - Thanks to <a href=
"mailto:shorewall@timelord.sk">Juraj Ontkanin</a>, there is now
a Shorewall mirror in the Slovak Republic</b>. The website is
now mirrored at <a href="http://www.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall"
target="_top">http://www.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall</a> and the
FTP site is mirrored at <a href=
"ftp://ftp.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall">ftp://ftp.nrg.sk/mirror/shorewall</a>.</p>
<p><b>11/2/2001 - Announcing Shorewall Parameter-driven Sample
Configurations.</b> There are three sample configurations:</p>
<ul>
<li>One Interface -- for a standalone system.</li>
<li>Two Interfaces -- A masquerading firewall.</li>
<li>Three Interfaces -- A masquerading firewall with
DMZ.</li>
</ul>
<p>Samples may be downloaded from <a href=
"ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.17">ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/samples-1.1.17</a>
. See the README file for instructions.</p>
<p><b>11/1/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.17</b>.&nbsp; I intend this to be the last of the 1.1
Shorewall releases.</p>
<p>In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>The handling of <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Aliases">ADD_IP_ALIASES</a> has been
corrected.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/22/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.16</b>. In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>A new "shorewall show connections" command has been
added.</li>
<li>In the "shorewall monitor" output, the currently tracked
connections are now shown on a separate page.</li>
<li>Prior to this release, Shorewall unconditionally added
the external IP adddress(es) specified in /etc/shorewall/nat.
Beginning with version 1.1.16, a new parameter (<a href=
"Documentation.htm#Aliases">ADD_IP_ALIASES</a>) may be set to
"no" (or "No") to inhibit this behavior. This allows IP
aliases created using your distribution's network
configuration tools to be used in static NAT.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/15/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.15.</b> In this version:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for nested zones has been improved. See <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Nested">the documentation</a> for
details</li>
<li>Shorewall now correctly checks the alternate
configuration directory for the 'zones' file.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>10/4/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.14.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Shorewall now supports alternate configuration
directories. When an alternate directory is specified when
starting or restarting Shorewall (e.g., "shorewall -c
/etc/testconf restart"), Shorewall will first look for
configuration files in the alternate directory then in
/etc/shorewall. To create an alternate configuration
simply:<br>
1. Create a New Directory<br>
2. Copy to that directory any of your configuration files
that you want to change.<br>
3. Modify the copied files as needed.<br>
4. Restart Shorewall specifying the new directory.</li>
<li>The rules for allowing/disallowing icmp echo-requests
(pings) are now moved after rules created when processing the
rules file. This allows you to add rules that selectively
allow/deny ping based on source or destination address.</li>
<li>Rules that specify multiple client ip addresses or
subnets no longer cause startup failures.</li>
<li>Zone names in the policy file are now validated against
the zones file.</li>
<li>If you have <a href=
"Documentation.htm#MangleEnabled">packet mangling</a> support
enabled, the "<a href=
"Documentation.htm#Interfaces">norfc1918</a>" interface
option now logs and drops any incoming packets on the
interface that have an RFC 1918 destination address.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>9/12/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.13</b>. In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Shell variables can now be used to parameterize Shorewall
rules.</li>
<li>The second column in the hosts file may now contain a
comma-separated list.<br>
<br>
Example:<br>
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; sea&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
eth0:130.252.100.0/24,206.191.149.0/24</li>
<li>Handling of multi-zone interfaces has been improved. See
the <a href="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">documentation for
the /etc/shorewall/interfaces file</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>8/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.12</b>. In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Several columns in the rules file may now contain
comma-separated lists.</li>
<li>Shorewall is now more rigorous in parsing the options in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces.</li>
<li>Complementation using "!" is now supported in rules.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.11</b>. In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>A "shorewall refresh" command has been added to allow for
refreshing the rules associated with the broadcast address on
a dynamic interface. This command should be used in place of
"shorewall restart" when the internet interface's IP address
changes.</li>
<li>The /etc/shorewall/start file (if any) is now processed
after all temporary rules have been deleted. This change
prevents the accidental removal of rules added during the
processing of that file.</li>
<li>The "dhcp" interface option is now applicable to firewall
interfaces used by a DHCP server running on the
firewall.</li>
<li>The RPM can now be built from the .tgz file using "rpm
-tb"&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>7/6/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.10.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Shorewall now enables Ipv4 Packet Forwarding by default.
Packet forwarding may be disabled by specifying
IP_FORWARD=Off in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. If you don't
want Shorewall to enable or disable packet forwarding, add
IP_FORWARDING=Keep to your /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
file.</li>
<li>The "shorewall hits" command no longer lists extraneous
service names in its last report.</li>
<li>Erroneous instructions in the comments at the head of the
firewall script have been corrected.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>6/23/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.9.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>The "tunnels" file <u>really</u> is in the RPM now.</li>
<li>SNAT can now be applied to port-forwarded
connections.</li>
<li>A bug which would cause firewall start failures in some
dhcp configurations has been fixed.</li>
<li>The firewall script now issues a message if you have the
name of an interface in the second column in an entry in
/etc/shorewall/masq and that interface is not up.</li>
<li>You can now configure Shorewall so that it <a href=
"Documentation.htm#NatEnabled">doesn't require the NAT and/or
mangle netfilter modules</a>.</li>
<li>Thanks to Alex&nbsp; Polishchuk, the "hits" command from
seawall is now in shorewall.</li>
<li>Support for <a href="IPIP.htm">IPIP tunnels</a> has been
added.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>6/18/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.8</b>. In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>A typo in the sample rules file has been corrected.</li>
<li>It is now possible to restrict masquerading by <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Masq">destination host or subnet.</a></li>
<li>It is now possible to have static <a href=
"NAT.htm#LocalPackets">NAT rules applied to packets
originating on the firewall itself</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>6/2/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.7.</b>
In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>The TOS rules are now deleted when the firewall is
stopped.</li>
<li>The .rpm will now install regardless of which version of
iptables is installed.</li>
<li>The .rpm will now install without iproute2 being
installed.</li>
<li>The documentation has been cleaned up.</li>
<li>The sample configuration files included in Shorewall have
been formatted to 80 columns for ease of editing on a VGA
console.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/25/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.6</b>. In this version</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#lograte">You may now
rate-limit the packet log.</a></li>
<li>Previous versions of Shorewall have an implementation of
Static NAT which violates the principle of least
surprise.&nbsp; NAT only occurs for packets arriving at
(DNAT) or send from (SNAT) the interface named in the
INTERFACE column of /etc/shorewall/nat. Beginning with
version 1.1.6, NAT effective regardless of which interface
packets come from or are destined to. To get compatibility
with prior versions, I have added a new "ALL <a href=
"NAT.htm#AllInterFaces">"ALL INTERFACES"&nbsp; column to
/etc/shorewall/nat</a>. By placing "no" or "No" in the new
column, the NAT behavior of prior versions may be
retained.&nbsp;</li>
<li>The treatment of <a href="IPSEC.htm#RoadWarrior">IPSEC
Tunnels where the remote gateway is a standalone system has
been improved</a>. Previously, it was necessary to include an
additional rule allowing UDP port 500 traffic to pass through
the tunnel. Shorewall will now create this rule automatically
when you place the name of the remote peer's zone in a new
GATEWAY ZONE column in /etc/shorewall/tunnels.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/20/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.5.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#modules">You may now pass
parameters when loading netfilter modules and you can specify
the modules to load.</a></li>
<li>Compressed modules are now loaded. This requires that you
modutils support loading compressed modules.</li>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#TOS">You may now set the Type
of Service (TOS) field in packets.</a></li>
<li>Corrected rules generated for port redirection
(again).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>5/10/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.4.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="Documentation.htm#Conf">Accepting RELATED
connections is now optional.</a></li>
<li>Corrected problem where if "shorewall start" aborted
early (due to kernel configuration errors for example),
superfluous 'sed' error messages were reported.</li>
<li>Corrected rules generated for port redirection.</li>
<li>The order in which iptables kernel modules are loaded has
been corrected (Thanks to Mark Pavlidis).&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/28/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.3.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Correct message issued when Proxy ARP address added
(Thanks to Jason Kirtland).</li>
<li>/tmp/shorewallpolicy-$$ is now removed if there is an
error while starting the firewall.</li>
<li>/etc/shorewall/icmp.def and /etc/shorewall/common.def are
now used to define the icmpdef and common chains unless
overridden by the presence of /etc/shorewall/icmpdef or
/etc/shorewall/common.</li>
<li>In the .lrp, the file /var/lib/lrpkg/shorwall.conf has
been corrected. An extra space after "/etc/shorwall/policy"
has been removed and "/etc/shorwall/rules" has been
added.</li>
<li>When a sub-shell encounters a fatal error and has stopped
the firewall, it now kills the main shell so that the main
shell will not continue.</li>
<li>A problem has been corrected where a sub-shell stopped
the firewall and main shell continued resulting in a
perplexing error message referring to "common.so"
resulted.</li>
<li>Previously, placing "-" in the PORT(S) column in
/etc/shorewall/rules resulted in an error message during
start. This has been corrected.</li>
<li>The first line of "install.sh" has been corrected -- I
had inadvertently deleted the initial "#".</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/12/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is
1.1.2.</b> In this version</p>
<ul>
<li>Port redirection now works again.</li>
<li>The icmpdef and common chains <a href=
"Documentation.htm#Icmpdef">may now be user-defined</a>.</li>
<li>The firewall no longer fails to start if "routefilter" is
specified for an interface that isn't started. A warning
message is now issued in this case.</li>
<li>The LRP Version is renamed "shorwall" for 8,3 MSDOS file
system compatibility.</li>
<li>A couple of LRP-specific problems were corrected.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>4/8/2001 - Shorewall is now affiliated with the <a href=
"http://leaf.sourceforge.net">Leaf Project</a></b> <a href=
"http://leaf.sourceforge.net"><img src="images/leaflogo.gif"
alt="Leaf Logo" border="0" height="36" width="49"></a></p>
<p><b>4/5/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.1. In
this version:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The common chain is traversed from INPUT, OUTPUT and
FORWARD before logging occurs</li>
<li>The source has been cleaned up dramatically</li>
<li>DHCP DISCOVER packets with RFC1918 source addresses no
longer generate log messages. Linux DHCP clients generate
such packets and it's annoying to see them logged.&nbsp;</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/25/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.1.0. In
this version:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Log messages now indicate the packet disposition.</li>
<li>Error messages have been improved.</li>
<li>The ability to define zones consisting of an enumerated
set of hosts and/or subnetworks has been added.</li>
<li>The zone-to-zone chain matrix is now sparse so that only
those chains that contain meaningful rules are defined.</li>
<li>240.0.0.0/4 and 169.254.0.0/16 have been added to the
source subnetworks whose packets are dropped under the
<i>norfc1918</i> interface option.</li>
<li>Exits are now provided for executing an user-defined
script when a chain is defined, when the firewall is
initialized, when the firewall is started, when the firewall
is stopped and when the firewall is cleared.</li>
<li>The Linux kernel's route filtering facility can now be
specified selectively on network interfaces.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/19/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.4.
This version:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Allows user-defined zones. Shorewall now has only one
pre-defined zone (fw) with the remaining zones being defined
in the new configuration file /etc/shorewall/zones. The
/etc/shorewall/zones file released in this version provides
behavior that is compatible with Shorewall 1.0.3.&nbsp;</li>
<li>Adds the ability to specify logging in entries in the
/etc/shorewall/rules file.</li>
<li>Correct handling of the icmp-def chain so that only ICMP
packets are sent through the chain.</li>
<li>Compresses the output of "shorewall monitor" if awk is
installed. Allows the command to work if awk isn't installed
(although it's not pretty).</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/13/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.3.
This is a bug-fix release with no new features.</b></p>
<ul>
<li>The PATH variable in the firewall script now includes
/usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.</li>
<li>DMZ-related chains are now correctly deleted if the DMZ
is deleted.</li>
<li>The interface OPTIONS for "gw" interfaces are no longer
ignored.</li>
</ul>
<p><b>3/8/2001 - The current version of Shorewall is 1.0.2. It
supports an additional "gw" (gateway) zone for tunnels and it
supports IPSEC tunnels with end-points on the firewall. There
is also a .lrp available now.</b></p>
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