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S H O R E W A L L 4 . 4 . 2 1
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I. PROBLEMS CORRECTED IN THIS RELEASE
II. KNOWN PROBLEMS REMAINING
III. NEW FEATURES IN THIS RELEASE
IV. RELEASE 4.4 HIGHLIGHTS
V. MIGRATION ISSUES
VI. PROBLEMS CORRECTED AND NEW FEATURES IN PRIOR RELEASES
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I. P R O B L E M S C O R R E C T E D I N T H I S R E L E A S E
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1) All problems corrections included in Shorewall 4.4.20.1 - 4.4.20.3
(see below).
2) The following error message
FOREWARD_CLEAR_MARK=Yes requires MARK Target in your kernel
and iptables
has been corrected to read
FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK=Yes requires MARK Target in your kernel
and iptables
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I I. K N O W N P R O B L E M S R E M A I N I N G
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1) On systems running Upstart, shorewall-init cannot reliably secure
the firewall before interfaces are brought up.
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I I I. N E W F E A T U R E S I N T H I S R E L E A S E
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1) AUTOMAKE=Yes now causes all directories on the CONFIG_PATH to be
searched for files newer than the script that last
started/restarted the firewall. Previously, only /etc/shorewall
(/etc/shorewall6) was searched.
2) FORMAT-2 actions may now specify default parameter values using the
DEFAULTS directive.
DEFAULTS <def1>,<def2>,...
Where <def1> is the default value for the first parameter, <def2>
is the default value for the second parameter and so on. To specify
an empty default, use '-'.
3) Parameterized macros may now specify a default parameter value
using the DEFAULT directive.
DEFAULT <default>
Example macro.Foo -- by default, accepts connections on ficticous
tcp port 'foo'.
DEFAULT ACCEPT
PARAM - - tcp foo
4) The standard Drop and Reject actions are now parameterized. Each
has 5 parameters:
1) Pass 'audit' if you want all ACCEPTs, DROPs and REJECTs audited.
Pass '-' otherwise.
2) The action to be applied to Auth requests:
FIRST PARAMETER DEFAULT
- REJECT
audit A_REJECT
3) The action to be applied to SMB traffic. The default depends on
the action and its first parameter:
ACTION FIRST PARAMETER DEFAULT
Reject - REJECT
Drop - DROP
Reject audit A_REJECT
Drop audit A_DROP
4) The action to be applied to accepted ICMP packets.
FIRST PARAMETER DEFAULT
- ACCEPT
audit A_ACCEPT
5) The action to be applied to UPnP (udp port 1900) and late DNS
replies (udp source port 53)
FIRST PARAMETER DEFAULT
- DROP
audit A_DROP
The parameters can be passed in the POLICY column of the policy
file.
Examples:
SOURCE DEST POLICY
net all DROP:Drop(audit):audit #Same as
#DROP:A_DROP:audit
SOURCE DEST POLICY
net all DROP:Drop(-,DROP) #DROP rather than REJECT Auth
The parameters can also be specified in shorewall.conf:
Example:
DROP_DEFAULT=Drop(-,DROP)
5) An 'update' command has been added to /sbin/shorewall and
/sbin/shorewall6. The command updates the shorewall.conf
(shorewall6.conf) file then validates the configuration. The
updated file will set any options not specified in the old file
with their default values, and will move any deprecated options
with non-default values to a 'deprecated options' section at the
end of the file. Each such deprecated option will generate a
warning message.
Your original shorewall.conf (shorewall6.conf) file will be saved as
shorewall.conf.bak (shorewall6.conf.bak).
The 'update' command accepts the same options as the 'check'
command plus a '-a' option that causes the updated file to be
annotated with manpage documentation.
6) Shorewall6 now supports ipsets.
Unlike iptables, which has separate configurations for IPv4 and
IPv6, ipset has a single configuration that handles both. This
means the SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf or shorewall6.conf
won't work correctly. To work around this issue, Shorewall-init is
now capable restoring ipset contents during 'start' and saving them
during 'stop'.
To direct Shorewall-init to save/restore ipset contents, set the
SAVE_IPSETS option in /etc/sysconfig/shorewall-init
(/etc/default/shorewall-init on Debian and derivatives). The value
of the option is a file name where the contents of the ipsets will
be saved to and restored from. Shorewall-init will create any
parent directories during the first 'save' operation.
If you configure Shorewall-init to save/restore ipsets, be sure to
set SAVE_IPSETS=No in shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf.
As part of this change, Shorewall and Shorewall6 will only restore
saved ipsets if SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf
(shorewall6.conf).
7) Shorewall6 now supports dynamic zones:
1) The nets=dynamic option is allowed in /etc/shorewall6/interfaces
2) The HOSTS column of /etc/shorewall6/hosts may now contain
<interface>:dynamic.
3) /sbin/shorewall6 now supports the 'add' and 'delete' commands.
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I V. R E L E A S E 4 . 4 H I G H L I G H T S
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1) Support for Shorewall-shell has been discontinued. Shorewall-perl
has been combined with Shorewall-common to produce a single
Shorewall package.
2) Support for the "Hierarchical Fair Service Curve" (HFSC) queuing
discipline has been added. HFSC is superior to the "Hierarchical
Token Bucket" queuing discipline where realtime traffic such as
VOIP is being used.
HTB remains the default queuing discipline.
3) Support for the "flow" traffic classifier has been added. This
classifier can help prevent multi-connection applications such as
BitTorrent from using an unfair amount of bandwidth.
4) The Shorewall documentation and man pages have been purged of
information about earlier Shorewall releases. The documentation
describes only the behavior of Shorewall 4.4 and later versions.
5) The interfaces file OPTIONs have been extended to largely remove the
need for the hosts file.
6) It is now possible to define PREROUTING and OUTPUT marking rules
that cause new connections to use the same provider as an existing
connection of the same kind.
7) Dynamic Zone support is once again available for IPv4; ipset support is
required in your kernel and in iptables.
8) A new AUTOMAKE option has been added to shorewall.conf and
shorewall6.conf. Setting this option will allow Shorewall to skip
the compilation phase during start/restart if no configuration
changes have occurred since the last start/restart.
9) The LIMIT:BURST column in /etc/shorewall/policy
(/etc/shorewall6/policy) and the RATE LIMIT column in
/etc/shorewall/rules (/etc/shorewall6/rules) may now be used to
limit on a per source IP or per destination IP basis.
10) Support for per-IP traffic shaping classes has been added.
11) Support for netfilter's TRACE facility has been added. TRACE allows
you to trace selected packets through Netfilter, including marking
by tcrules.
12) You may now preview the generated ruleset by using the '-r' option
to the 'check' command (e.g., "shorewall check -r").
13) A new simplified Traffic Shaping facility is now available.
14) Additional ruleset optimization options are available.
15) TPROXY support has been added.
16) Explicit support for Linux-vserver has been added. It is now
possible to define sub-zones of $FW.
17) A 'Universal' sample configuration is now availale for a
'plug-and-play' firewall.
18) Support for the AUDIT iptables target has been added.
19) Shorewall6 now supports ipsets.
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V. M I G R A T I O N I S S U E S
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1) If you are currently using Shorewall-shell:
a) In shorewall.conf, if you have specified
"SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell" then you must either:
- change that specification to "SHOREWALL_COMPILER=perl"; or
- change that specification to "SHOREWALL_COMPILER="; or
- delete the specification altogether.
Failure to do so will result in the following warning:
WARNING: SHOREWALL_COMPILER=shell ignored. Shorewall-shell
support has been removed in this release.
b) Review the migration issues at
http://www.shorewall.net/LennyToSqueeze.html and make changes as
required.
We strongly recommend that you migrate to Shorewall-perl on your
current Shorewall version before upgrading to Shorewall 4.4.0. That
way, you can have both Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl available
until you are certain that Shorewall-perl is working correctly for
you.
2) The 'shorewall stop', 'shorewall clear', 'shorewall6 stop' and
'shorewall6 clear' commands no longer read the 'routestopped'
file. The 'routestopped' file used is the one that was present at
the last 'start', 'restart' or 'restore' command.
IMPORTANT: If you modify the routestopped file, you must refresh or
restart Shorewall before the changes to that file take effect.
3) The old macro parameter syntax (e.g., SSH/ACCEPT) is now deprecated
in favor of the new syntax (e.g., SSH(ACCEPT)). The 4.4 documentation
uses the new syntax exclusively, although the old syntax
continues to be supported.
The sample configurations also use the new syntax.
4) Support for the SAME target in /etc/shorewall/masq and
/etc/shorewall/rules has been removed, following the removal of the
underlying support in the Linux kernel.
5) Supplying an interface name in the SOURCE column of
/etc/shorewall/masq is now deprecated. Entering the name of an
interface there will result in a compile-time warning:
WARNING: Using an interface as the masq SOURCE requires the
interface to be up and configured when Shorewall
starts/restarts
To avoid this warning, replace interface names by the corresponding
network(s) in CIDR format (e.g., 192.168.144.0/24).
6) Previously, Shorewall has treated traffic shaping class IDs as
decimal numbers (or pairs of decimal numbers). That worked fine
until IPMARK was implemented. IPMARK requires Shorewall to generate
class Ids in numeric sequence. In 4.3.9, that didn't work correctly
because Shorewall was generating the sequence "..8,9,10,11..." when
the correct sequence was "...8,9,a,b,...". Shorewall now treats
class IDs as hex, as do 'tc' and 'iptables'.
This should only be an issue if you have more than 9 interfaces
defined in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and if you use class IDs in
/etc/shorewall/tcrules or /etc/shorewall/tcfilters. You will need
to renumber the class IDs for devices 10 and greater.
7) Support for the 'norfc1918' interface and host option has been
removed. If 'norfc1918' is specified for an entry in either the
interfaces or the hosts file, a warning is issued and the option is
ignored. Simply remove the option to avoid the warning.
Similarly, if RFC1918_STRICT=Yes or a non-empty RFC1918_LOG_LEVEL
is given in shorewall.conf, a warning will be issued and the option
will be ignored.
You may simply delete the RFC1918-related options from your
shorewall.conf file if you are seeing warnings regarding them.
Users who currently use 'norfc1918' are encouraged to consider
using NULL_ROUTE_RFC1918=Yes instead.
8) The install.sh scripts in the Shorewall and Shorewall6 packages no
longer create a backup copy of the existing configuration. If you
want your configuration backed up prior to upgrading, you will
need to do that yourself.
As part of this change, the fallback.sh scripts are no longer
released.
9) In earlier releases, if an ipsec zone was defined as a sub-zone of
an ipv4 or ipv6 zone using the special <child>:<parent>,... syntax,
CONTINUE policies for the sub-zone did not work as
expected. Traffic that was not matched by a sub-zone rule was not
compared against the parent zone(s) rules.
In 4.4.0, such traffic IS compared against the parent zone rules.
10) The name 'any' is now reserved and may not be used as a zone name.
11) Perl module initialization has changed in Shorewall
4.4.1. Previously, each Shorewall Perl package would initialize its
global variables for IPv4 in an INIT block. Then, if the
compilation turned out to be for IPv6,
Shorewall::Compiler::compiler() would reinitialize them for IPv6.
Beginning in Shorewall 4.4.1, the modules do not initialize
themselves in an INIT block. So if you use Shorewall modules
outside of the Shorewall compilation environment, then you must
explicitly call the module's 'initialize' function after the module
has been loaded.
12) Checking for zone membership has been tighened up. Previously,
a zone could contain <interface>:0.0.0.0/0 along with other hosts;
now, if the zone has <interface>:0.0.0.0/0 (even with exclusions),
then it may have no additional members in /etc/shorewall/hosts.
13) ADD_IP_ALIASES=No is now the setting in the released shorewall.conf
and in all of the samples. This will not affect you during upgrade
unless you choose to replace your current shorewall.conf with the
one from the release (not recommended).
14) The names of interface configuration variables in generated scripts
have been changed to insure uniqueness. These names now begin with
SW_.
This change will only affect you if your extension scripts are
using one or more of these variables.
Old Variable Name New Variable Name
-----------------------------------------------------
iface_ADDRESS SW_iface_ADDRESS
iface_BCASTS SW_iface_BCASTS
iface_ACASTS SW_iface_ACASTS
iface_GATEWAY SW_iface_GATEWAY
iface_ADDRESSES SW_iface_ADDRESSES
iface_NETWORKS SW_iface_NETWORKS
iface_MAC SW_iface_MAC
provider_IS_USABLE SW_provider_IS_USABLE
where 'iface' is a capitalized interface name (e.g., ETH0) and
'provider' is the capitalized name of a provider.
15) Support for the OPTIONS column in /etc/shorewall/blacklist
(/etc/shorewall6/blacklist) has been removed. Blacklisting by
destination IP address will be included in a later Shorewall
release.
16) If your /etc/shorewall/params (or /etc/shorewall6/params) file
sends output to Standard Output, you need to be aware that the
output will be redirected to Standard Error beginning with
Shorewall 4.4.16.
17) Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.17, the EXPORTPARAMS option is
deprecated. With EXPORTPARAMS=No, the variables set by
/etc/shorewall/params (/etc/shorewall6/params) at compile time are
now available in the compiled firewall script.
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V I. P R O B L E M S C O R R E C T E D A N D N E W F E A T U R E S
I N P R I O R R E L E A S E S
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P R O B L E M S C O R R E C T E D I N 4 . 4 . 2 0
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4.4.20.3
1) Deprecated options have been removed from the .conf files.
They remain in the man pages.
2) A simple configuration like the 'Universal' sample that includes a
single wildcard interface ('+' in the INTERFACE column) produces a
ruleset that blocks all incoming packets.
As part of correcting this defect, which was introduced in
4.4.20.2, one or more superfluous rules (which could never match)
have been eliminated from most configurations.
4.4.20.2
1) Problem Corrected #1 from 4.4.19.4 was inadvertently omitted from
4.4.20. It is now included.
2) A defect introduced in 4.4.20 could cause the following failure at
start/restart:
ERROR: Command "tc qdisc add dev eth0 parent 1:11 handle 1:
sfq quantum 12498 limit 127 perturb 10" failed
3) The 'sfilter' interface option introduced in 4.4.20 was only
applied to forwarded traffic. Now it is also applied to traffic
addressed to the firewall itself.
4) IPSEC traffic is now (correctly) excluded from sfilter.
5) Shorewall 4.4.20 could, under some circumstances, fail during
iptables-restore with a message such as the following:
iptables-restore v1.4.10: Couldn't load target
`dsl0_fwd':/usr/lib/xtables/libipt_dsl0_fwd.so: cannot open shared object
file: No such file or directory
Error occurred at line: 113
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more
information.
ERROR: iptables-restore Failed. Input is in
/var/lib/shorewall/.iptables-restore-input
6) The following incorrect warning message has been eliminated:
WARNING: sfilter is ineffective with FASTACCEPT=Yes
4.4.20.1
1) The address of the Free Software Foundation has been corrected in
the License files.
2) The shorewall[6].conf file installed in
/usr/share/shorewall[6]/configfiles is no longer modified for use
with Shorewall[6]-lite. When creating a new configuration for a
remote forewall, two lines need to be modified in the copy
CONFIG_PATH=/usr/share/shorewall (or shorewall6)
STARTUP_LOG=/var/log/shorewall-lite-init.log
(or shorewall6-lite-init.log)
3) The 4.4.20 Shorewall6 installer always installed the plain
(unannotated) version of shorewall6.conf, regardless of the '-p'
setting.
4) Due to dissatisfaction with the default setting for configuration
file annotation, the default has returned to 'plain' (unannotated)
configuration files. If you wish to include documentation in your
installed configuration files, use the '-a' option in the
installer. The '-p' option will remain supported until 4.4.21 when
it will be removed.
4.4.20
1) Previously, when a device number was explicitly specified in
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices, all unused numbers less than the one
specified were unavailable for allocation to following entries that
did not specify a number. Now, the compiler selects the lowest
unallocated number when no device number is explicitly allocated.
2) The obsolete PKTTYPE option has been removed from shorewall.conf
and the associated manpage.
3) The iptables 1.4.11 release produces an error when negative numbers
are specified for IPMARK mask values. Shorewall now converts such
numbers to their 32-bit hex equivalent.
4) Previously, before /etc/shorewall6/params was processed, the
IPv4 Shorewall libraries (/usr/share/shorewall/lib.*) were
loaded rather that the IPv6 versions (/usr/share/shorewall6/lib.*).
Now, the correct libraries are loaded.
5) Shorewall now sets /proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge_nf_call_iptables or
/proc/sys/net/bridge/bridge_nf_call_ip6tables when there are
interfaces with the 'bridge' option. This insures that netfilter
rules are invoked for bridged traffic. Previously, Shorewall was
not setting these flags with the possible result that a
bridge/firewall would not work properly.
6) Problem corrections released in 4.4.19.1-4.4.19.4 (see below)
are also included in this release.
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1) The implementation of the environmental variables LIBEXEC and
PERLLIB that was introduced in 4.4.19 has been changed
slightly. The installers now allow absolute path names to be
supplied in these variables so that the executables and/or Perl
modules may be installed under a top-level directory other than
/usr. The change is compatible with 4.4.19 in that if a relative
path name is supplied, then '/usr/' is prepended to the supplied
name.
2) A new ACCOUNTING_TABLE option has been added to shorewall.conf and
shorewall6.conf. The setting determines the Netfilter table (filter
or mangle) where accounting rules are created.
When ACCOUNTING_TABLE=mangle, the allowable accounting file
sections are:
PREROUTING
INPUT
OUTPUT
FORWARD
POSTROUTING
Present sections must appear in that order.
3) An NFLOG 'ACTION' has been added to the accounting file to allow
sending matching packets (or the leading part of them) to backend
accounting daemons via a netlink socket.
4) A 'whitelist' option has been added to the blacklist file. When
'whitelist' is specified, packets/connections matching the entry
are not matched against the entries which follow. No logging of
whitelisted packets/connections is performed.
5) Support for the AUDIT target has been added. AUDIT is a feature of
the 2.6.39 kernel and iptables 1.4.10 that allows security auditing
of access decisions.
The support involves the following:
a) A new "AUDIT Target" capability is added and is required for
auditing support. To use AUDIT support with a capabilities
file, that file must be generated using this or a later
release.
Use 'shorewall show capabilities' after installing this release
to see if your kernel and iptables support the AUDIT target.
b) In /etc/shorewall/policy's POLICY column, the policy (and
default action, if any) may be followed by ':audit' to cause
applications of the policy to be audited. This means that any
NEW connection that does not match any rule in the rules file
or in the applicable 'default action' will be audited.
Only ACCEPT, DROP and REJECT policies may be audited.
Example:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG
# LEVEL
net fw DROP:audit
It is allowed to also specify a log level on audited policies
resulting in both auditing and logging.
c) Three new builtin actions that may be used in the rules file,
in macros and in other actions.
A_ACCEPT - Audits and accepts the connection request
A_DROP - Audits and drops the connection request
A_REJECT - Audits and rejects
A log level may be supplied with these actions to
provide both auditing and logging.
Example:
A_ACCEPT:info loc net ...
d) The BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION, MACLIST_DISPOSITION and
TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION options may be set as follows:
BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION A_DROP or A_REJECT
MACLIST_DISPOSITION A_DROP
A_REJECT, unless
MACLIST_TABLE=mangle
TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION A_DROP or A_REJECT
e) A SMURF_DISPOSITION option has been added to
shorewall.conf. The default value is DROP; if the option is set
to A_DROP, then dropped smurfs are audited.
f) An 'audit' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/blacklist file which causes the packets matching
the entry to be audited. 'audit' may not be specified together
with 'whitelist'.
g) The builtin actions (dropBroadcast, rejNonSyn, etc.) now support
an 'audit' parameter which causes all ACCEPT, DROP and REJECTs
performed by the action to be audited.
Note: The builtin actions are those actions listed in the
output of 'shorewall show actions' with names that begin with a
lower-case letter.
Example:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST
rejNonSyn(audit) net all
h) There are audited versions of the standard Default Actions
named A_Drop and A_Reject. Note that these audit everything
that they do so you will probably want to make your own copies
and modify them to only audit the packets that you care about.
6) Up to this release, the behaviors of 'start -f' and 'restart -f'
has been inconsistent. The 'start -f' command compares the
modification times of /etc/shorewall[6] with
/var/lib/shorewall[6]/restore while 'restart -f' compares with
/var/lib/shorewall[6]/firewall.
To make the two consistent, a new LEGACY_FASTSTART option has been
added. The default value when the option isn't specified is
LEGACY_FASTSTART=Yes which preserves the old behavior. When
LEGACY_FASTSTART=No, 'start -f' and 'restart -f' both compare with
/var/lib/shorewall[6]/firewall.
7) A '-c' (compile) option has been added to the 'start' and 'restart'
commands in both Shorewall and Shorewall6. It overrides the setting
of AUTOMAKE and unconditionally forces a recompilation of the
configuration.
When both -c and -f are specified, the result is determined by the
option that appears last.
8) Shorewall and Shorewall6 no longer depend on 'make'.
9) A '-T' (trace) option has been added to the 'check' and 'compile'
commands. When a warning or error message is generated, a Perl
stack trace is included to aid in isolating the source of the
message.
10) The Shorewall and Shorewall6 configuration files (including the
samples) may now be annotated with documentation from the associated
manpage.
The installers for these two packages support a -a (annotated)
option that installs annotated versions of the packages. Both
versions are available in the configfiles directory within the
tarball and in the Sample directories.
11) The STATE subcolumn of the secmarks file now allows the values 'I'
which will match packets in the INVALID state, and 'NI'
which will match packets in either NEW or INVALID state.
12) Certain attacks can be best defended through use of one of these
two measures.
a) rt_filter (Shorewall's routefilter). Only applicable to IPv4
and can't be used with some multi-ISP configurations.
b) Insert a DROP rule that prevents hairpinning (routeback). The
rule must be inserted before any ESTABLISHED,RELATED firewall
rules. This approach is not appropriate for bridges and other
cases, where the 'routeback' option is specified or implied.
For non-routeback interfaces, Shorewall and Shorewall6 will now
insert a hairpin rule, provided that the routefilter option is not
specified. The rule will dispose of hairpins according to the
setting of two new options in shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf:
SFILTER_LOG_LEVEL
Specifies the logging level; default is 'info'. To omit
logging, specify FILTER_LOG_LEVEL=none.
SFILTER_DISPOSITION
Specifies the disposition. Default is DROP and the possible
values are DROP, A_DROP, REJECT and A_REJECT.
To deal with bridges and other routeback interfaces , there is now
an 'sfilter' option in /shorewall/interfaces and
/etc/shorewall6/interfaces.
The value of the 'sfilter' option is a list of network addresses
enclosed in in parentheses. Where only a single address is listed,
the parentheses may be omitted. When a packet from a
source-filtered address is received on the interface, it is
disposed of based on the new SFILTER_ options described above.
For a bridge or other routeback interface, you should list all of
your other local networks (those networks not attached to the
bridge) in the bridge's sfilter list.
Example:
My DMZ is 2001:470:b:227::40/124
My local interface (br1) is a bridge.
In /etc/shorewall6/interfaces, I have:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
loc br1 - sfilter=2001:470:b:227::40/124
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4.4.19.4
1) Previously, the compiler would allow a degenerate entry (only the
BAND specified) in /etc/shorewall/tcpri. Such an entry now raises a
compilation error.
2) Previously, it was possible to specify tcfilters and tcrules that
classified traffic with the class-id of a non-leaf HFSC class. Such
classes are not capabable of handling packets.
Shorewall now generates a compile-time warning in this case.
If a non-leaf class is specified as the default class, then
Shorewall now generates a compile-time error since that
configuration allows no network traffic to flow.
3) Traditionally, Shorewall has not checked for the existance of
ipsets mentioned in the configuration, potentially resulting in a
run-time start/restart failure. Now, the compiler will issue a
WARNING if:
a) The compiler is being run by root.
b) The compilation isn't producing a script to run on a remote
system under a -lite product.
c) An ipset appearing in the configuration does not exist on the
local system.
4) As previously implemented, the 'refresh' command could fail or
could result in a ruleset other than what was intended. If there
had been changes in the ruleset since it was originally
started/restarted/restored that added or deleted sequenced chains
(chains such as ~lognnn and ~exclnnn), the resulting ruleset could
jump to the wrong such chains or could fail to 'refresh'
successfully.
This issue has been corrected as follows. When a 'refresh' is done
and individual chains are involved, then each table that contains
both sequenced chains and one of the chains being refreshed is
refreshed in its entirety.
For example, if 'shorwall refresh foo' is issued and the filter
table (which is the default) contains any sequenced chains, then
the entire table is reloaded. Note that this reload operation is
atomic so no packets are passed through an inconsistent
configuration.
5) When 'shorewall6 refresh' was run previously, a harmless
'ip6tables: Chain exists' message was generated.
4.4.19.3
1) The changes in 4.4.19.1 that corrected long-standing issues with
default route save/restore were incompatible with 'gawk'. When
'gawk' was installed (rather than 'mawk'), awk syntax errors having
to do with the symbol 'default' were issued.
This incompatibility has been corrected.
2) Previously, an entry in the USER/GROUP column in the rules and
tcrules files could cause run-time start/restart failures if the
rule(s) being added did not have the firewall as the source (rules
file) and were not being added to the POSTROUTING chain (:T
designator in the tcrules file). This error is now caught by
the compiler.
3) Shorewall now insures that a route to a default gateway exists in
the main table before it attempts to add a default route through
that gateway in a provider table. This prevents start/restart
failures in the rare event that such a route does not exist.
4) CLASSIFY TC rules can apply to traffic exiting only the interface
associated with the class-id specified in the first column. In a
Multi-ISP configuration, a naive user might create this TC rule:
1:2 - 1.2.3.4
This will work fine when 1.2.3.4 can only be routed out of a single
interface. However, if we assume that eth0 is interface 1, then the
above rule only works for traffic leaving via eth0.
Beginning with this release, the Shorewall compiler will interpret
the above rule as this one:
1.2 - eth0:1.2.3.4
4.4.19.2
1) In Shorewall-shell, there was the ability to specify IPSET names in
the ORIGINAL DEST column of DNAT and REDIRECT rules. That ability,
inadvertently dropped in Shorewall-perl, has been restored.
CAUTION: When an IPSET is used in this way, the server port is
opened from the SOURCE zone.
Example:
DNAT net dmz:10.1.1.2 tcp 80 - +foo
will implicitly add this rule
ACCEPT net dmz:10.1.1.2 tcp 80
2) Several problems with complex TC have been corrected:
a) The following entry in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses
A:1 - 10*full/100:50ms 20*full/100 1 tcp-ack
produced this error:
ERROR: Unknown INTERFACE (A) : /etc/shorewall/tcclasses
This has been corrected.
b) Shorewall reserves class number 1 for the root class of the
queuing discipline. Definining class 1 in
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses was previoulsly escaping detection by
the compiler, resulting in a run-time error.
c) The compiler did not complain if a CLASSID specified in the MARK
column of tcrules referred to an IFB class. Such a rule would be
nonsensical since packets are passed through the IFB before
they are passed through any marking rules. Such a configuration
now results in a compilation error.
d) Where there are more than 10 tcdevices, tcfilter entries could
generate invalid rules.
3) Double exclusion involving ipset lists was previously not detected,
resulting in anomalous behavior.
Example:
ACCEPT:info $FW net:!10.1.0.7,10.1.0.9,+[!my-host[src]]]
Such cases now result in a compilation error.
4.4.19.1
1) A duplicate ACCEPT rule in the INPUT chain has been eliminated when
the firewall is stopped.
2) A defect introduced in Shorewall 4.4.17 broke the ability to
specify ':<low port>-<high port>' in the ADDRESS column of
/etc/shorewall/masq.
3) Several long-standing defects having to do with default route
save/restore have been corrected in the Multi-ISP implementation.
a) Shorewall previously interpreted all 'nexthop' routes as
default routes when analyzing the pre-start routing
configuration. This could lead to unwanted default routes when
the firewall was started or stopped.
b) The default route with metric 0 was usually not restored
during 'stop' processing.
c) If there were multiple default routes in the main table prior
to 'shorewall start' and USE_DEFAULT_RT was set, only the
first one with metric 0 was deleted.
4.4.19
1) Corrected a problem in optimize level 4 that resulted in the
following compile-time failure.
Can't use an undefined value as an ARRAY reference at
/usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 862.
2) If a DNAT or REDIRECT rule applied to a source zone with an
interface defined with 'physical=+', then the nat table 'dnat'
chain might have been created but not referenced. This prevented
the DNAT or REDIRECT rule from working correctly.
3) Previously, if a variable set in /etc/shorewall/params was given a
value containing shell metacharacters, then the compiled script
would contain syntax errors.
4) The pathname of the 'conntrack' binary was erroneously printed in
the output of 'shorewall6 show connections'.
5) Correct a problem whereby incorrect Netfilter rules were generated
when a bridge with ports was given a logical name.
6) If a bridge interface had subordinate ports defined in
/etc/shorewall/interface, then an ipsec entry (either ipsec zone or
the 'ipsec' option specified) in /etc/shorewall/hosts resulted in
the compiler generating an incorrect Netfilter configuration.
7) Previously /var/log/shorewall*-init.log was created in the wrong
Selinux context. The rpm's have been modified to correct that
issue.
8) An issue with params processing on RHEL6 has been corrected. The
problem manifested as the following type of warning:
WARNING: Param line (export OLDPWD) ignored at
/usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Config.pm line 2993.
9) A fatal error is now raised if '!0' appears in the PROTO column of
files that have that column. This avoids an iptables-restore
failure at run time.
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1) When TC_ENABLED=Simple, ACK packets are now placed in the highest
priority class. An ACK packet is a TCP packet with the ACK flag set
and no data payload.
Rationale: Entries in /etc/shorewall[6]/tcpri affect both incoming
and outgoing connections. If a particular application, SMTP for
example, is placed in priority class 3, then outgoing ACK packets
for incoming email were previously placed in priority class 3 as
well. This could have the effect of slowing down incoming mail when
the goal was to give outgoing mail a lower priority. By
unconditionally placing ACK packets in priority class 1, this issue
is avoided.
2) Up to this point, the Perl-based rules compiler has not accepted
ICMP type lists. This is in contrast to the shell-based compiler
which did support such lists.
Support for ICMP (and ICMPv6) type lists has now been restored.
3) Distributions have different philosophies about the proper file
hierarchy. Two issures are particularly contentious:
- Executable files in /usr/share/shorewall*. These include;
getparams
compiler.pl
wait4ifup
shorecap
ifupdown
- Perl Modules in /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall.
To allow distributions to designate alternate locations for these
files, the installers (install.sh) now support the following
environmental variables:
LIBEXEC -- determines where in /usr getparams, compiler.pl,
wait4ifup, shorecap and ifupdown are installed. Shorewall and
Shorewall6 must be installed with the same value of LIBEXEC. The
listed executables are installed in /usr/${LIBEXEC}/shorewall*. The
default value of LIBEXEC is 'share'. LIBEXEC is recognized by all
installers and uninstallers.
PERLLIB -- determines where in /usr the Shorewall perl modules are
installed. Shorewall and Shorewall6 must be installed with the same
value of PERLLIB. The modules are installed in
/usr/${PERLLIB}/Shorewall. The default value of PERLLIB is
'share/shorewall'. PERLLIB is only recognized by the Shorewall and
Shorewall6 installers and the same value must be passed to both
installers.
4) Bridge/ports handling has been significantly improved, resulting in
packets to/from bridges traversing fewer rules.
5) A list of protocols is now permitted in the PROTO column of the
rules file.
6) The contents of the Netfilter mangle table are now included in the
output from 'shorewall show tc'.
7) Simple traffic shaping can now have a common configuration between
IPv4 and IPv6. To do that:
- Set TC_ENABLED=Simple in both /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and
/etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf
- Configure /etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces.
- Leave /etc/shorewall6/tcinterfaces empty.
- Configure /etc/shorewall/tcpri (if desired)
- Configure /etc/shorewall6/tcpri (if desired)
It should be noted that when IPv6 packets are encapsulated for
transmission by 6to4/6in4, they retain their marks.
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4.4.18 Final
1) Previously, if an IPv6 host address (no "/<vlsm>") was used in a
context where a network address is allowed, the compiler failed to
supply the default <vlsm> of 128. This could lead to startup errors
and/or Perl errors such as:
Use of uninitialized value $mask in concatenation (.) or
string at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Tc.pm line 979,
<$currentfile> line 11.
2) The <burst> option for the IN-BANDWIDTH column of tcdevices was
previously not recognized. That functionality has been restored.
3) If an interface mentioned in the tcfilters file was not up when
Shorewall was started or restarted, then the command would fail
at run-time with a 'tc' error message.
4.4.18 RC 1
1) None.
4.4.18 Beta 4
1) Edting of the MARK column has been tighened to catch errors at
compile time rather than at run time.
2) The MODULE_SUFFIX default has been changed to "ko ko.gz o o.gz gz"
to get the most common suffixes at the front of the list. It is
still recommended that you modify this setting to include only the
suffix(es) used on your system. Current distributions use 'ko'
almost exclusively.
4.4.18 Beta 2
1) Previously, the 'local' option in /etc/shorewall6/providers would
produce an 'ip route add' command containing an IPv4 address. It now
correctly uses the equivalent IPv6 address. Note that this option
is still undocumented for use with IPv6.
2) When optimize level 4 was set, the optimizer mis-handled rules of the
form:
-A <chain1> -j <chain2> -m comment ...
when such a rule was the only rule in a chain.
4.4.18 Beta 1
None.
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1) The modules files are now just a driver that INCLUDEs several new
files and one old file:
- /usr/share/shorewall[6]/modules.essential # Essential modules
- /usr/share/shorewall[6]/modules.xtables # xt_ modules
- /usr/share/shorewall[6]/helpers # Existing file
- /usr/share/shorewall/ipset # ipset modules
- /usr/share/shorewall[6]/modules.tc # Traffic Shaping
- /usr/share/shorewall[6]/modules.extensions # Other extensions
This should make it easier to configure your own
/etc/shorewall[6]/modules file that won't be obsolete when you
upgrade your Shorewall/Shorewall6 installation.
For example, if you don't use traffic shaping or ipsets, you can
remove those from your copy of the modules file (copy in
/etc/shorewall/).
2) Traditionally, the root of the Shorewall accounting rules has been
the 'accounting' chain. Having a single root chain has drawbacks:
- Many rules are traversed needlessly (they could not possibly
match traffic).
- At any time, the Netfilter team could begin generating errors
when loading those same rules.
- MAC addresses may not be used in the accounting rules.
- The 'accounting' chain cannot be optimized when
OPTIMIZE_ACCOUNTING=Yes.
In addition, currently the rules may be defined in any order so the
rules compiler must post-process the ruleset to alert the user to
unreferenced chains.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.18, the accounting structure can be
created with three root chains:
- accountin: Rules that are valid in the INPUT chain (may not
specify an output interface).
- accountout: Rules that are valid in the OUTPUT chain (may not
specify an input interface or a MAC address).
- accountfwd: Other rules.
The new structure is enabled by sectioning the accounting file in a
manner similar to the rules file.
The sections are INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD and must appear in that
order (although any of them may be omitted). The first
non-commentary record in the accounting file must be a section
header when sectioning is used.
When sections are enabled:
- You must jump to a user-defined accounting chain before you can
add rules to that chain. This eliminates the possibility of
unreferenced chains.
- You may not specify an output interface in the INPUT section.
- In the OUTPUT section:
- You may not specify an input interface
- You may not jump to a chain defined in the INPUT section that
specifies an input interface
- You may not specify a MAC address
- You may not jump to a chain defined in the INPUT section that
specifies specifies a MAC address.
- The default value of the CHAIN column is:
- 'accountin' in the INPUT section
- 'accountout' in the OUTPUT section
- 'accountfwd' in the FORWARD section
- Traffic addressed to the firewall goes through the rules defined
in the INPUT section.
- Traffic originating on the firewall goes through the rules
defined in the OUTPUT section.
- Traffic being forwarded through the firewall goes through the
rules defined in the FORWARD section.
As part of this change, the USER/GROUP column must now be empty
except in the OUTPUT section. This is consistent with recent
Netfilter releases which disallow the owner match in rules
reachable from the INPUT and FORWARD hooks.
3) Internals Change: The Policy.pm module has been merged into the
Rules.pm module.
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1) Previously, Shorewall did not check the length of the names of
accounting chains and manual chains. This could result in
errors when loading the resulting ruleset. Now, the compiler issues
an error for chain names longer than 29 characters.
Additionally, the compiler now ensures that these chain names are
composed only of letters, digits, underscores ('_') and dashes
("-"). This eliminates Perl runtime errors or other failures when a
chain name is embedded within a regular expression.
2) Several issues with complex traffic shaping have been resolved:
a) Specifying IPv6 network addresses in the SOURCE or DEST columns
of /etc/shorewall6/tcfilters now works correctly. Previously,
Perl runtime warnings occurred and an invalid tc command was
generated.
b) Previously, if flow= was specified on a parent class, a perl
runtime warning occurred and an invalid tc command was
generated. This combination is now flagged as an error at
compile time.
c) There is now an ipv6 tcfilters skeleton included with
Shorewall6.
3) Several issues with accounting are corrected.
a) If an accounting rule of the form:
chain1 chain2
was configured and neither chain was referenced again in the
configuration, then an internal error was generated when
optimize level 4 was selected and OPTIMIZE_ACCOUNTING=Yes.
b) If there was only a single accounting rule and that rule
specified an interface in the SOURCE or DEST columns, then the
generated ruleset would fail to load when
OPTIMIZE_ACCOUNTING=Yes.
c) If a per-IP accounting table name appeared in more than one
rule and the specified network was not the same in all
occurrences, then the generated ruleset would fail to load.
This is now flagged as an error at compile time.
4) Two defects in compiler module loading have been corrected:
a) Previously, the kernel/net/ipv6/netfilter/ directory was not
searched.
b) A Perl diagnostic was issued when running on a monolithic kernel
when the modutils package was installed.
5) A line containing only 'INCLUDE' appearing in an extension script
now generates a compile-time diagnostic rather than a run-time
diagnostic.
6) Previously, the uninstall.sh scripts used insserv (if installed) on
Debian-based systems. These scripts now use the preferred tool
(updaterc.d).
7) Beginning with 4.4.16, compilation would fail if an empty shell
variable was referenced in a config file on a system where /bin/sh
is the Bourne Again Shell (bash).
8) In earlier versions. if OPTIMIZE=8 then the ruleset displayed by
'check -r' was the same as when OPTIMIZE=0
(unoptimized). Similarly, if OPTIMIZE=9 then the ruleset displayed
was the same as when OPTIMIZE=1.
9) Startup could previously fail on a system where kernel module
autoloading was not available and where TC_ENABLED=Simple was
specified in shorewall.conf or shorewall6.conf.
10) Previously, a 'done.' message could be printed at the end of
command processing even when the command had failed. Now, such a
message only appears if the command completed successfully.
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1) This release adds support for per-IP accounting using the ACCOUNT
target. That target is only available when xtables-addons is
installed. This support has been successfully tested with
xtables-addons 1.32 on:
- Fedora 14
- Debian Squeeze
- OpenSuSE 11.3
It has also been tested with xtables-addons 1.21 on:
- Debian Lenny
Information about xtables-addons installation may be found at
http://www.shorewall.net/Dynamic.html#xtables-addons
This feature required addition of the "ACCOUNT Target" capability
so if you use a capabilities file, you will want to refresh it
after installing this release.
Per-IP accounting is configured in /etc/shorewall/accounting (it is
not currently supported in IPv6). In the ACTION column, enter:
ACCOUNT(<table>,<network>)
where:
<table> is the name of an accounting table (you choose the
name). Rules specifying the same table will have their
per-IP counters accumulated in that table.
<network> is an IPv4 in CIDR format. May be as large as a /8.
Example: Suppose your WAN interface is eth0 and your LAN interface
is eth1 with network 172.20.1.0/24. To account for all
traffic between the WAN and LAN interfaces:
#ACTION TABLE SOURCE DEST ...
ACCOUNT(net-loc,172.20.1.0/24) - eth0 eth1
ACCOUNT(net-loc,172.20.1.0/24) - eth0 eth1
This will create a net-loc table for counting packets and
bytes for traffic between the two interfaces. The table is dumped
using the iptaccount utility:
iptaccount [-f] -l net-loc
Example (output folded):
gateway:~# iptaccount -l loc-net
libxt_ACCOUNT_cl userspace accounting tool v1.3
Showing table: loc-net
Run #0 - 3 items found
IP: 172.20.1.105 SRC packets: 115 bytes: 131107
DST packets: 68 bytes: 20045
IP: 172.20.1.131 SRC packets: 47 bytes: 12729
DST packets: 38 bytes: 25304
IP: 172.20.1.145 SRC packets: 20747 bytes: 2779676
DST packets: 27050 bytes: 32286071
Finished.
gateway:~#
For each local IP address with non-zero counters, the packet and
byte count for both incoming traffic (IP is DST) and outgoing
traffic (IP is SRC) are listed. The -f option causes the table to
be flushed (reset all counters to zero).
For a command synopsis, type:
iptaccount --help
One nice feature of per-IP accounting is that the counters survive
'shorewall restart'. This has a downside, however. If you change
the <network> associated with an accounting table, then you must
"shorewall stop; shorewall start" to have a successful restart
(counters will be cleared).
2) A 'show ipa' command has been added to /sbin/shorewall. It
displays each per-IP accounting table.
3) Traditionally, the -lite products have used the modules (or
helpers) file on the firewall system unless there is a modules (or
helpers) file in the configuration directory on the administrative
system. This release introduces the EXPORTMODULES option in
shorewall[6].conf.
When EXPORTMODULES=Yes, the modules (helpers) file on the
administrative system will be used to determine the set of modules
loaded.
As part of this change, the modules and helpers files are now
secured for read access by non-root users.
4) Given that shell variables are expanded at compile time, there was
previously no way to cause such variables to be expanded at run
time. This made it difficult (to impossible) to include dynamic IP
addresses in a Shorewall-lite configuration.
This release implements "Run-time address variables". In
configuration files, these variables are expressed using an
apersand ('&') followed by the name of an interface defined in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. Wild-card interfaces (those whose names
end in '+') are not allowed to be used in this way.
Example:
&eth0 would represent the primary IP address of eth0.
Run-time address variables may be used in the SOURCE and DEST
column of the following configuration files:
accounting
action files
blacklist
macro files
rules
tcrules
tos
They may also appear in the ORIGINAL DEST column of
action files
macro files
rules
They may also be used in the SOURCE and ADDRESS columns of the masq
file.
For optional interfaces, if the interface is not usable at the time
that the firewall starts, the resulting Netfilter rule(s)
containing the interface address are not added.
5) The shell variables set in /etc/shorewall/params
(/etc/shorewall6/params) are now available in the compiled script
at run-time with EXPORTPARAMS=No. The EXPORTPARAMS option is now
deprecated and the released /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and
/etc/shorewall/shorewall6.conf have been modified to specify
EXPORTPARAMS=No.
6) The INCLUDE directive may now be used in the following extension
scripts:
clear
findgw
init
isusable
refresh
refreshed
restored
start
started
stop
stopped
tcclear
The directive is executed during compilation so that the INCLUDEd
file(s) is(are) copied into the generated script. This same
technique is also now used for INCLUDE directives in the params
file when EXPORTPARAMS=Yes. Previously, INCLUDE directives in that
file were strongly discouraged with EXPORTPARAMS=Yes because the
INCLUDE was performed on the firewall system rather than on the
administrative system.
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1) If the output of 'env' contained a multi-line value, then
compilation failed with an Internal Error. The code has been
changed so that the compiler now handles multi-line values
correctly.
2) In 4.4.15, output to Standard Out (FD 1) generated by
/etc/shorewall/params (/etc/shorewall6/params) was redirected to
/dev/null. It is now redirected to Standard Error (FD 2).
3) 2) If a params file did not appear in the CONFIG_PATH, compilation
failed with the error:
.: 31: Can't open /etc/shorewall6/params
ERROR: Processing of /etc/shorewall6/params failed
4) Compilation no longer fails when /bin/sh is an older (e.g.,
RHEL5.x) bash.
5) Previously, proxy ARP with logical interface names did not
work. Symptoms included numerous Perl runtime error messages.
6) Previously, the root of a wildcard name erroneously matched that
name. For example 'eth' matched 'eth+'. Now there must be at least
one additional character (e.g., 'eth4').
7) Use of logical interface names in the notrack and ecn files
resulted in perl runtime warning messages.
8) The use of wildcard-matching names in certain contexts would result
in anomalous behavior. Among the symptoms were:
- Perl run-time messages similar to this one:
Use of uninitialized value in numeric comparison (<=>)
at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Zones.pm line 1334.
- Failure to treat the interface as optional or required.
9) Where two ISPs share the same interface, if one of the ISPs was not
reachable, an iptables-restore error such as this occurred:
iptables-restore v1.4.10: Bad mac address "-j"
10) Previously, under very rare circumstances, a chain would be
optimized away while there were still jumps to the chain. This caused
Shorewall start/restart to fail during iptables-restore.
11) Previously, the setting of BLACKLIST_DISPOSITION was not
validated. Now, an error is raised unless the value is DROP or REJECT.
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1) Shorewall-init now handles ppp devices.
2) To support proxy NDP in a manner similar to Proxy ARP, an
/etc/shorewall6/proxyndp file has been added. It should be noted
that IPv6 implements a "strong host model" whereas Linux IPv4
implements a "weak host model". In the strong model, IP addresses
are associated with interfaces; in the weak model, they are
associated with the host. This is relevant with respect to Proxy
NDP in that a multi-homed Linux IPv6 host will only respond to
neighbor discoverey requests for IPv6 addresses configured on the
interface receiving the request. So if eth0 has address
2001:470:b:227::44/128 and eth1 has address 2001:470:b:227::1/64
then in order for eth1 to respond to neighbor discovery requests
for 2001:470:b:227::44, the following entry in
/etc/shorewall6/proxyndp is required:
#ADDRESS INTERFACE EXTERNAL HAVEROUTE PERSISTENT
2001:470:b:227::44 - eth1 Yes
As part of this change, the INTERFACE column in
/etc/shorewall/proxyarp is now optional and is only required when
HAVEROUTE=No (the default).
3) Shorewall 4.4.16 introduces format-2 Actions. Based on the similar
feature of macros, format-2 actions allow the same column layout
for macros, actions and rules.
In the action.xxx file, simply make the first non-commentary line:
FORMAT 2
This allows the lines which follow to have the same columns as
those in the rules file.
As part of this change, the earlier kludgy restrictions regarding
Macros and Actions have been eliminated. For example, DNAT, DNAT-,
REDIRECT, REDIRECT- and ACCEPT+ rules are now allowed in Actions
and in macros invoked from Actions. Additionally, Macros used in
Actions are now free to invoke other actions.
4) Action processing has been largely re-implemented in this release.
The prior implementation contained a lot of duplicated code which
made maintainance difficult. The old implementation pre-processed
all action files early in the compilation process and then
post-processed the ones that had been actionally used after the
rules file had been read. The new algorithm generates the chain for
each unique action invocation at the time that the invocation is
encountered in the rules file.
Consideration was given to eliminating the
/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std and /etc/shorewall/actions files,
since it is possible to discover actions "on the fly" in the same
way as macros are discovered. That change was ultimately rejected
because it could cause migration issues for users with macros and
actions with the same name (e.g., action.xxx and macro.xxx). If a
new major release of Shorewall (e.g., 4.6) is created, that change
will be reconsidered for inclusion at that time.
Action names are now verified to be composed of alphanumeric
characters, '_' and '-'.
There is now support for parameterized actions. The parameters are
a comma-separated list enclosed in parentheses following the
action name (e.g., ACT(REDIRECT,192.168.1.4)). Within the action
body, the parameter values are available in $1, $2, etc.
You can 'omit' a parameter in the list by using '-' (e,g,
REDIRECT,-.info) would omit the second parameter (within the action
body, $2 would expand to nothing). If you want to specify '-' as a
parameter value, use '--'.
Parameter values are also available to extensions scripts. See
http://www.shorewall.net/Actions.html#Extension for more
information.
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1) Previously, if
a) syn flood protection was enabled in a policy that
specified 'all' for the SOURCE or DEST, and
b) there was only one pair of zones matching that policy, and
c) PROPAGATE_POLICIES=Yes in shorewall.conf, and
d) logging was specified on the policy
then the chain implementing the chain had "all" in its name while
the logging rule did not.
Example
On a simple standalone configuration, /etc/shorewall/policy
has:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOGGING
net all DROP info
then the chain implementing syn flood protection would be named
@net2all while the logging rule would indicate net2fw.
Now, the chain will be named @net2fw.
2) If the current environment exported the VERBOSE variable with a
non-zero value, then startup would fail.
3) If a route existed for an entire RFC1918 subnet (10.0.0.0/8,
172.20.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16), then setting
NULL_ROUTE_RFC1918=Yes would cause the route to be replaced with an
'unreachable' one.
4) Shorewall6 failed to start correctly if all the following were true:
- Shorewall was installed using the tarball. It may have
subsequently been installed using a distribution-specific package
or the rpm from shorewall.net without first unstalling the
tarball components.
- Shorewall6 was installed using a distribution-specific package or
the rpm from shorewall.net.
- The file /etc/shorewall6/init was not created.
5) If an interface with physical='+' is given the 'optional' or
'required' option, then invalid shell variables names were
generated by the compiler.
6) The contributed macro macro.JAP generated a fatal error when used.
The root cause was a defect in parameter processing in nested
macros (if 'PARAM' was passed to an nested macro invocation, it was
not expanded to the current parameter value).
7) Previously, if find_first_interface_address() failed when running
shorewall-lite or shoreawll6-lite, the following unhelpful message
was issued:
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/lib.common: line 449: startup_error: command
not found
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1) Munin and Squid macros have been contributed by Tuomo Soini.
2) The Shorewall6 accounting, tcrules and rules files now include a
HEADERS column which allows matching based on the IPv6 extension and
protocol headers included in a packet.
The contents of the column are:
[any:|exactly:]<header list>
where <header list> is a comma-separated list of headers from the
following:
Long Name Short Name Number
--------------------------------------
auth ah 51
esp esp 50
hop-by-hop hop 0
route ipv6-route 41
frag ipv6-frag 44
none ipv6-nonxt 59
protocol proto 255
If 'any:' is specified, the rule will match if any of the listed
headers are present. If 'exactly:' is specified, the will match
packets that exactly include all specified headers. If neither is
given, 'any:' is assumed.
This change adds a new capability (Header Match) so if you use a
capabilities file, you will need to regenerate using this release.
3) It is now possible to add explicit routes to individual provider
routing tables using the /etc/shorewall/routes (/etc/shorewall6/routes)
file.
See the shorewall-routes (5) and/or the shorewall6-routes (5) manpage.
4) Previously, /usr/share/shorewall/compiler.pl expected the contents
of the params file to be passed in the environment. Now, the
compiler invokes a small shell program
(/usr/share/shorewall/getparams) to process the file and to pass
the (variable,value) pairs back to the compiler.
Shell variable expansion uses the value from the params file if the
parameter was set in that file. Otherwise the current environment
is used. If the variable does not appear in either place, an error
message is generated.
5) Shared IPv4/IPv6 traffic shaping configuraiton is now
available. The device and class configuration can be included in
either the Shorewall or the Shorewall6 configuration. To place it
in the Shorewall configuration:
a) Set TC_ENABLED=Internal in shorewall.conf
b) Set TC_ENABLED=Shared in shorewall6.conf
c) Create symbolic link /etc/shorewall6/tcdevices pointing to
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices.
d) Create symbolic link /etc/shorewall6/tcclasses pointing to
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses.
e) Entries for both IPv4 and IPv6 can be included in
/etc/shorewall/tcfilters. This file has been extended to allow
both IPv4 and IPv6 entries to be included in a single file.
f) Packet marking rules are included in both configurations'
tcrules file as needed. CLASSIFY rules in
/etc/shorewall6/tcrules are validated against the Shorewall TC
configuration.
In this setup, the tcdevices and tcclasses will only be updated
when Shorewall is restarted. The IPv6 marking rules are updated
when Shorewall6 is restarted.
The above configuration may be reversed to allow Shorewall6 to
control the TC configuration.
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1) Previously, messages to the STARTUP_LOG had inconsistent date formats.
2) The blacklisting change in 4.4.13 was broken in some simple
configurations with the effect that blacklisting was not enabled.
3) Previously, Shorewall6 produced an untidy sequence of error
messages when an attempt was made to start it on a system running a
kernel older than 2.6.24:
[root@localhost shorewall6]# shorewall6 start
Compiling...
Processing /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf...
Loading Modules...
Compiling /etc/shorewall6/zones...
...
Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall6/.start
ERROR: Shorewall6 requires Linux kernel 2.6.24 or later
/usr/share/shorewall6/lib.common: line 73:
[: -lt: unary operator expected
ERROR: Shorewall6 requires Linux kernel 2.6.24 or later
[root@localhost shorewall6]#
This has been corrected so that a single ERROR message is
generated.
4) Previously, an ipset name appearing in the /etc/shorewall/hosts
file could be qualified with a list of 'src' and/or 'dst' enclosed
in quotes. This was virtually guaranteed not to work since the set
must match when used to verify both a packet source and a
packet destination. Now, the following error is raised:
ERROR: ipset name qualification is disallowed in this file
As part of this change, the ipset name is now verified to begin
with a letter and be composed of letters, digits, underscores ("_")
and hyphens ("-").
5) The Shorewall-lite and Shorewall6-lite Debian init scripts contained a
syntax error.
6) If the -v or -q options were used in /sbin/shorewall-lite or
/sbin/shorewall6-lite commands that involve the compiled firewall
script and the resulting effective VERBOSITY was > 2 or < -1, then
the command would fail.
7) The log reading commands (show log, logwatch, and dump) returned no
log records when run on one of the -lite products.
8) To avoid future confusion, the following obsolete options have been
deleted from the sample shorewall.conf files:
BRIDGING
DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD
PKTTYPE
They will still be recognized by the rules compiler.
9) All sample .conf files have been changed to specify
FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK=
rather than
FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK=Yes
That way, systems without MARK support will still be able to
install the sample configurations and FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK will
default to Yes on systems with MARK support.
10) The install scripts in the tarballs now correctly create init
symlinks on recent Ubuntu releases.
11) Previously, this entry in the OPTIONS column of
/etc/shorewall/interfaces incorrectly generated a syntax error.
nets=(1.2.3.0/24)
The error was:
ERROR: Invalid VLSM (24))
12) Previously, if 10 or more interfaces were configured in Complex
Traffic Shaping (/etc/shorewall/tcdevices), the following
compilation diagnostic was generated:
Argument "a" isn't numeric in sprintf at
/usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Config.pm line 893.
and an invalid TC configuration was generated.
13) If the current environment exported the VERBOSITY variable with a
non-zero value, startup would fail.
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1) Multiple source or destination ipset matches can be generated by
enclosing the ipset list in +[...].
Example (/etc/shorewall/rules):
ACCEPT $FW net:+[dest-ip-map,dest-port-map]
2) Shorewall now uses the 'conntrack' utility for 'show connections'
if that utility is installed. Going forward, the Netfilter team
will be enhancing this interface rather than the /proc interface.
3) The CPU time required for optimization has been reduced by 2/3.
4) An 'scfilter' extension script has been added. This extension
script differs from other such scripts in that it is invoked by the
command line tools (/sbin/shorewall, /sbin/shorewall6,
/sbin/shorewall-lite and /sbin/shorewall6-lite).
The script acts as a filter for the output of the 'show
connections' command. Each connection is piped through the filter
which can modify and/or drop information as desired.
Example:
#!/bin/sh
sed 's/secmark=0 //'
That script will remove 'secmark=0 ' from each line.
The default script is:
#!/bin/sh
cat -
which passes the output through unmodified.
If you are using Shorewall-lite and/or Shorewall6-lite, the
scfilter file is kept on the administrative system. The compiler
encapsulates the script into a shell function that is copied
into the generated auxillary configuration file
(firewall.conf). That function is then invoked by the 'show
connections' command.
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1) Under rare circumstances where COMMENT is used to attach comments
to rules, OPTIMIZE 8 through 15 could result in invalid
iptables-restore (ip6tables-restore) input.
2) Under rare circumstances involving exclusion, OPTIMIZE 8 through 15
could result in invalid iptables-restore (ip6tables-restore) input.
3) The change in 4.4.12 to detect and use the new ipset match syntax
broke the ability to detect the old ipset match capability. Now,
both versions of the capability can be correctly detected.
4) Previously, if REQUIRE_INTERFACE=Yes then start/restart would fail
if the last optional interface tested was not available.
5) Exclusion in the blacklist file was correctly validated but was then
ignored when generating iptables (ip6tables) rules.
6) Previously, non-trivial exclusion (more than one excluded
address/net) in CONTINUE, NONAT and ACCEPT+ rules generated
valid but incorrect iptables input. This has been corrected but
requires that your iptables/kernel support marking rules in any
Netfilter table (CONTINUE in the tcrules file does not require this
support).
This fix implements a new 'Mark in any table' capability; those
who utilize a capabilities file should re-generate the file using
this release.
7) Interface handling has been extensively modified in this release
to correct a number of problems with the earlier
implementation. Among those problems:
- Invalid shell variable names could be generated in the firewall
script. The generated firewall script uses shell variables to
track the availability of optional and required interfaces and
to record detected gateways, detected addresses, etc.
- The same shell variable name could be generated by two different
interface names.
- Entries in the interfaces file with a wildcard physical name
(physical name ends with "+") and with the 'optional' option were
handled strangely.
o If there were references to specific interfaces that matched
the wildcard, those entries were handled as if they had been
defined as optional in the interfaces file.
o If there were no references matching the wildcard, then the
'optional' option was effectively ignored.
The new implementation:
- Insures valid shell variable names.
- Insures that shell variable names are unique.
- Handles interface names appearing in the INTERFACE column of the
providers file as a special case for 'optional'. If the name
matches a wildcard entry in the interfaces file then the
usability of the specific interface is tracked individually.
- Handles the availabilty of other interfaces matching a wildcard
as a group; if there is one useable interface in the group then
the wildcard itself is considered usable.
The following example illustrates this use case:
/etc/shorewall/interfaces
net ppp+ - optional
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
REQUIRE_INTERFACE=Yes
If there is any usable PPP interface then the firewall will be
allowed to start. Previously, the firewall would never be allowed
to start.
8) When a comma-separated list of 'src' and/or 'dst' was specified in
an ipset invocation (e.g., "+fooset[src,src]), all but the first 'src'
or 'dst' was previously ignored when generating the resulting
iptables rule.
9) Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.9, the SAME target in tcrules has
generated invalid iptables (ip6tables) input. That target now
generates correct input.
10) Ipsets associated with 'dynamic' zones were being created during
'restart' but not during 'start'.
11) To work around an issue in Netfilter/iptables, Shorewall now uses
state match rather than conntrack match for UNTRACKED state
matching.
12) If the routestopped files contains NOTRACK rules, 'shorewall* clear'
did not clear the raw table.
13) An error message was incorrectly generated if a port range of the
form :<port> (e.g., :22) appeared.
14) An error message is now generated when '*' appears in an interface
name.
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1) Entries in the rules file (both Shorewall and Shorewall6) may now
contain zone lists in the SOURCE and DEST column. A zone list is a
comma-separated list of zone names where each name appears in the
zones file. A zone list may be optionally followed by a plus sign
("+") to indicate that the rule should apply to intra-zone traffic
as well as to inter-zone traffic.
Zone lists behave like 'all' and 'any' with respect to Optimization
1. If the rule matches the applicable policy for a given (source
zone, dest zone), then the rule will be suppessed for that pair of
zones unless overridden by the '!' suffix on the target in the
ACTION column (e.g., ACCEPT!, DROP!:info, etc.).
Additionally, 'any', 'all' and zone lists may be qualified in the
same way as a single zone.
Examples:
fw,dmz:90.90.191.120/29
all:+blacklist
The 'all' and 'any' keywords now support exclusion in the form of a
comma-separated list of excluded zones.
Examples:
all!fw (same as all-).
any+!dmz,loc (All zones except 'dmz' and 'loc' and
include intra-zone rules).
2) An IPSEC column has been added to the accounting file, allowing you
to segregate IPSEC traffic from non-IPSEC traffic. See 'man
shorewall-accounting' (man shorewall6-accounting) for details.
With this change, there are now three trees of accounting chains:
- The one rooted in the 'accounting' chain.
- The one rooted in the 'accipsecin' chain. This tree handles
traffic that has been decrypted on the firewall. Rules in this
tree cannot specify an interface name in the DEST column.
- The one rooted in the 'accipsecout' chain. This tree handles
traffic that will be encrypted on the firewall. Rules in this
tree cannot specify an interface name in the SOURCE column.
In reality, when there are bridges defined in the configuration,
there is a fourth tree rooted in the 'accountout' chain. That chain
handles traffic that originates on the firewall (both IPSEC and
non-IPSEC).
This change also implements a couple of new warnings:
- WARNING: Adding rule to unreferenced accounting chain <name>
The first reference to user-defined accounting chain <name> is
not a JUMP or COUNT from an already-defined chain.
- WARNING: Accounting chain <name> has o references
The named chain contains accounting rules but no JUMP or COUNT
specifies that chain as the target.
3) Shorewall now supports the SECMARK and CONNSECMARK targets for
manipulating the SELinux context of packets.
See the shorewall-secmarks and shorewall6-secmarks manpages for
details.
As part of this change, the tcrules file now accepts $FW in the
DEST column for marking packets in the INPUT chain.
4) Blacklisting has undergone considerable change in Shorewall 4.4.13.
a) Blacklisting is now based on zones rather than on interfaces and
host groups.
b) Near compatibility with earlier releases is maintained.
c) The keywords 'src' and 'dst' are now preferred in the OPTIONS
column in /etc/shoreawll/blacklist, replacing 'from' and 'to'
respectively. The old keywords are still supported.
d) The 'blacklist' keyword may now appear in the OPTIONS,
IN_OPTIONS and OUT_OPTIONS fields in /etc/shorewall/zones.
i) In the IN_OPTIONS column, it indicates that packets received
on the interface are checked against the 'src' entries in
/etc/shorewall/blacklist.
ii) In the OUT_OPTIONS column, it indicates that packets being
sent to the interface are checked against the 'dst' entries.
iii) Placing 'blacklist' in the OPTIONS column is equivalent to
placing in in both the IN_OPTIONS and OUT_OPTIONS columns.
e) The 'blacklist' option in the OPTIONS column of
/etc/shorewall/interfaces or /etc/shorewall/hosts is now
equivalent to placing it in the IN_OPTIONS column of the
associates record in /etc/shorewall/zones. If no zone is given
in the ZONE column of /etc/shorewall/interfaces, the 'blacklist'
option is ignored with a warning (it was previously ignored
silently).
f) The 'blacklist' option in the /etc/shorewall/interfaces and
/etc/shorewall/hosts files is now deprecated but will continue
to be supported for several releases. A warning will be added at
least one release before support is removed.
5) There is now an OUT-BANDWIDTH column in
/etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces.
The format of this column is:
<rate>[:[<burst>][:[<latency>][:[<peak>][:[<minburst>]]]]]
These terms are described in tc-tbf(8). Shorewall supplies default
values as follows:
<burst> = 10kb
<latency> = 200ms
The remaining options are defaulted by tc.
6) The IN-BANDWIDTH column in both /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and
/etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces now accepts an optional burst parameter.
<rate>[:<burst>]
The default <burst> is 10kb. A larger <burst> can help make the
<rate> more accurate; often for fast lines, the enforced rate is
well below the specified <rate>.
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1) Previously, the Shorewall6-lite version of shorecap was using
iptables rather than ip6tables, with the result that many capabilities
that are only available in IPv4 were being reported as available.
2) In a number of cases, Shorewall6 generated incorrect rules
involving the IPv6 multicast network. The rules specified
ff00::/10 where they should have specified ff00::/8. Also, rules
instantiated when the firewall was stopped used ff80::/10 rather
than fe80::/10 (IPv6 Link Local network).
3) Previously, using a destination port-range with :random produced a
fatal compilation error in REDIRECT rules.
4) A number of problems associated with Shorewall-init and Upstart
have been corrected.
If you use Shorewall-init, then when upgrading to this version, be
sure to recompile all firewall scripts before you take interfaces
down or reboot.
5) Previously, the Shorewall installer (install.sh) failed to install
/usr/share/shorewall/configfiles/Makefile and rather issued the
following message:
install-file: command not found
This caused the Makefile to be omitted from RPMs as well.
6) When 'any' was used in the SOURCE column, a duplicate rule was
generated in all "fw2*" ("fw-* if ZONE2ZONE="-"). If 'any' was used
in the DEST column, then a duplicate rule appeared in all "*2fw"
(*-fw) chains.
7) A port range that omitted the first port number (e.g., ":80") was
rejected with the following error:
ERROR: Invalid/Unknown tcp port/service (0) : ......
8) AUTOMAKE=Yes has been broken for some time. It is now working
correctly.
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1) Support has been added for ADD and DEL rules in
/etc/shorewall/rules. ADD allows either the SOURCE or DESTINATION
IP address to be added to an ipset; DEL deletes an address
previously added.
2) Per-ip log rate limiting has been added in the form of the LOGLIMIT
option in shorewall.conf. When LOGLIMIT is specified, LOGRATE and
LOGBURST are ignored.
LOGRATE and LOGBURST are now deprecated.
LOGLIMIT value format is [{s|d}:]<rate>[/<unit>][:<burst>]
If the value starts with 's:' then logging is limited per source
IP. If the value starts with 'd:', then logging is limited per
destination IP. Otherwise, the overall logging rate is limited.
<unit> is one of sec, min, hour, day.
If <burst> is not specified, then a value of 5 is assumed.
3) The sample configurations now include a 'Universal' configuration
that will start on any system and protect that system while
allowing the system to forward traffic.
As part of this change, several additional features were added:
- You may now specify "physical=+" in the interfaces file.
- A 'COMPLETE' option is added to shorewall.conf and
shorewall6.conf. When you set this option to Yes, you are
asserting that the configuration is complete so that your set of
zones encompasses any hosts that can send or receive traffic
to/from/through the firewall. This causes Shorewall to omit the
rules that catch packets in which the source or destination IP
address is outside of any of your zones. Default is No. It is
recommended that this option only be set to Yes if:
o You have defined an interface whose effective physical setting
is '+'
o That interface is assigned to a zone.
o You have no CONTINUE policies or rules.
4) 'icmp' is now accepted as a synonym for 'ipv6-icmp' in IPv6
compilations.
5) Shorewall now detects the presence of a recent ipset iptables
module and uses its new syntax. This avoids a warning on iptables
1.4.9. This change involves a new capabilities file version so if
you use a capabilities file, be sure to regenerate it with 4.4.12
shorewall-lite or shorewall6-lite.
6) Blacklisting can now be done by destination IP address as well as
by source address.
The /etc/shorewall/blacklist and /etc/shorewall6/blacklist files
now have an optional OPTIONS column. Initially, this column can
contain either 'from' (the default) or 'to'; the latter causes the
address(es) in the ADDRESS/SUBNET column to be interpreted as a
DESTINATION address rather than a source address.
Note that static blacklisting is still restricted to traffic
ARRIVING on an interface that has the 'blacklist' option set. So to
block traffic from your local network to an internet host, you must
specify 'blacklist' on your internal interface.
Similarly, dynamic blacklisting has been enhanced to recognize the
'from' and 'to' keywords.
Example:
shorewall drop to 1.2.3.4
This command will silently drop connection requests to1.2.3.4.
The reciprocal of that command would be:
shorewall allow to 1.2.3.4
7) The status command now displays the directory containing the .conf
file (shorewall.conf or shorewall6.conf) when the running
configuration was compiled.
Example:
gateway:/etc/shorewall# shorewall status
Shorewall-4.4.12-RC1 Status at gateway - Thu Aug 12 19:41:51 PDT 2010
Shorewall is running
State:Started (Thu Aug 12 19:41:48 PDT 2010) from /etc/shorewall/
gateway:/etc/shorewall#
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1) The IPv6 allowBcast action generated an invalid rule.
2) If IPSET=<pathname> was specified in shorewall.conf, then when an
ipset was used in a configuration file entry, the following
fatal compilation error occurred:
ERROR: ipset names in Shorewall configuration files require Ipset
Match in your kernel and iptables : /etc/shorewall/rules (line nn)
If you applied the workaround given in the "Known Problems", then
you should remove /etc/shorewall/capabilities after installing
this fix.
3) The start priority of shorewall-init on Debian and Debian-based
distributions was previously too low, making it start too late.
4) The log output from IPv6 logs was almost unreadable due to display
of IPv6 addresses in uncompressed format. A similar problem
occurred with 'shorewall6 show connections'. This update makes the
displays much clearer at the expense of opening the slight
possibility of two '::' sequences being incorrectly shown in the
same address.
5) The new REQUIRE_INTERFACE was inadvertently omitted from
shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf. It has been added.
6) Under some versions of Perl, a Perl run-time diagnostic was produced
when options were omitted from shorewall.conf or shorewall6.conf.
7) If the following options were specified in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
for an interface with '-' in the ZONE column, then these options
would be ignored if there was an entry in the hosts file for the
interface with an explicit or implicit 0.0.0.0/0 (0.0.0.0/0 is
implied when the host list begins with '!').
blacklist
maclist
nosmurfs
tcpflags
Note: for IPv6, the network is ::/0 rather than 0.0.0.0/0.
8) The generated script was missing a closing quote when
REQUIRE_INTERFACE=Yes.
9) Previously, if nets= was specified under Shorewall6, this error
would result:
ERROR: Invalid IPv6 address (224.0.0.0) :
/etc/shorewall6/interfaces (line 16)
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1) Beginning with this release, Shorewall supports a 'vserver'
zone type. This zone type is used with Shorewall running on a
Linux-vserver host system and allows you to define zones that
represent a set of Linux-vserver hosts.
See http://www.shorewall.net/Vserver.html for details.
2) A new FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK option has been added to shorewall.conf
and shorewall6.conf.
Traditionally, Shorewall has cleared the packet mark in the first
rule in the mangle FORWARD chain. This behavior is maintained with
the default setting (FORWARD_CLEAR_MARK=Yes). If the new option is
set to No, packet marks set in the PREROUTING chain are retained in
the FORWARD chains.
As part of this change, a new "fwmark route mask" capability has
been added. If your version of iproute2 supports this capability,
fwmark routing rules may specify a mask to be applied to the mark
prior to comparison with the mark value in the rule. The presence
of this capability allows Shorewall to relax the restriction that
small mark values may not be set in the PREROUTING chain when
HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS is in effect. If you take advantage of this
capability, be sure that you logically OR mark values in PREROUTING
makring rules rather then simply setting them unless you are able
to set both the high and low bits in the mark in a single rule.
As always when a new capability has been introduced, be sure to
regenerate your capabilities file(s) after installing this release.
3) A new column (NET3) has been added to the /etc/shorewall/netmap
file. This new column can qualify the INTERFACE column by
specifying a SOURCE network (DNAT rule) or DEST network (SNAT rule)
associated with the interface.
4) To accomodate systems with more than one version of Perl installed,
the shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf files now support a PERL
option. If the program specified by that option does not exist or
is not executable, Shorewall (and Shorewall6) fall back to
/usr/bin/perl.
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1) Startup Errors (those that are detected before the state of the
system has been altered), were previously not sent to the
STARTUP_LOG.
2) A regression of sorts occurred in Shorewall 4.4.9. Previously, a
Perl extension script could end with a call to add_rule(). Such a
script fails under Shorewall 4.4.9 unless the 'trace' option is
specified on the run line.
While this issue has been corrected, users are advised to always
end their Perl extension scripts with the following line to insure
that the script returns a 'true' value:
1;
3) Under rare circumstances involving a complex configuration,
OPTIMIZE=13 and OPTIMIZE=15 could cause invalid iptables-restore
input to be generated.
Sample error message:
iptables-restore v1.4.8: Couldn't load target
`sys2sys':/usr/local/libexec/xtables/libipt_sys2sys.so:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
4) Previously, if the 'optional' option was given to an interface with
a wildcard physical name, specific instances of the interface were
never considered usable.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net ppp+ - optional
/etc/shorewall/providers:
#PROVIDER NUMBER MARK DUPLICATE INTERFACE ...
XYZTEL 1 - main ppp0
The XYZTEL provider was never usable.
This configuration now works correctly.
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1) Shorewall 4.4.10 includes a new 'Shorewall Init' package. This new
package provides two related features:
a) It allows the firewall to be closed prior to bringing up
network devices. This insures that unwanted connections are not
allowed between the time that the network comes up and when the
firewall is started.
b) It integrates with NetworkManager and distribution ifup/ifdown
systems to allow for 'event-driven' startup and shutdown.
The two facilities can be enabled separately.
When Shorewall-init is first installed, it does nothing until you
configure it.
The configuration file is /etc/default/shorewall-init on
Debian-based systems and /etc/sysconfig/shorewall-init otherwise.
There are two settings in the file:
PRODUCTS - lists the Shorewall packages that you want to
integrate with Shorewall-init. Example:
PRODUCTS="shorewall shorewall6"
IFUPDOWN When set to 1, enables integration with
NetworkManager and the ifup/ifdown scripts.
To close your firewall before networking starts:
a) in the Shorewall-init configuration file, set PRODUCTS to the
firewall products installed on your system.
b) be sure that your current firewall script(s) (normally in
/var/lib/<product>/firewall) is(are) compiled with the 4.4.10
compiler.
Shorewall and Shorewall6 users can execute these commands:
shorewall compile
shorewall6 compile
Shorewall-lite and Shorewall6-lite users can execute these
commands on the administrative system.
shorewall export <firewall-name-or-ip-address>
shorewall6 export <firewall-name-or-ip-address>
That's all that is required.
To integrate with NetworkManager and ifup/ifdown, additional steps
are required. You probably don't want to enable this feature if you
run a link status monitor like swping or LSM.
a) In the Shorewall-init configuration file, set IFUPDOWN=1.
b) In your Shorewall interfaces file(s), set the 'required' option
on any interfaces that must be up in order for the firewall to
start. At least one interface must have the 'required' or
'optional' option if you perform the next optional step. If
'required' is specified on an interface with a wildcard name
(the physical name ends with '+'), then at least one interface
that matches the name must be in a usable state for the
firewall to start successfully.
c) (Optional) -- If you have specified at least one 'required'
or 'optional interface, you can then disable automatic firewall
startup at boot time.
On Debian-based systems, set startup=0 in /etc/default/<product>.
On other systems, use your service startup configuration tool
(chkconfig, insserv, ...) to disable startup.
The following actions occur when an interface comes up:
FIREWALL INTERFACE ACTION
STATE
----------------------------------
Any Required start
stopped Optional start
started - restart
The following actions occur when an interface goes down:
In the INTERFACE column, '-' indicates neither required nor
optional
FIREWALL INTERFACE ACTION
STATE
----------------------------------
Any Required stop
stopped Optional start
started - restart
For optional interfaces, the /var/lib/<product>/<interface>.state
files are maintained to reflect the state of the interface.
Please note that the action is carried out using the current
compiled script; the configuration is not recompiled.
A new option has been added to shorewall.conf and
shorewall6.conf. The REQUIRE_INTERFACE option determines the
outcome when an attempt to start/restart/restore/refresh the
firewall is made and none of the optional interfaces are available.
With REQUIRE_INTERFACE=No (the default), the operation is
performed. If REQUIRE_INTERFACE=Yes, then the operation fails and
the firewall is placed in the stopped state. This option is
suitable for a laptop with both ethernet and wireless
interfaces. If either come up, the firewall starts. If neither
comes up, the firewall remains in the stopped state. Similarly, if
an optional interface goes down and there are no optional
interfaces remaining in the up state, then the firewall is stopped.
Shorewall-init may be installed on Debian-based systems, SuSE-based
systems and RedHat-based systems.
On Debian-based systems, during system shutdown the firewall is
opened prior to network shutdown (/etc/init.d/shorewall stop
performs a 'clear' operation rather than a 'stop'). This is
required by Debian standards. You can change this default behavior
by setting SAFESTOP=1 in /etc/default/shorewall
(/etc/default/shorewall6, ...).
2) All of the CLIs now support the -a option of the 'version' command.
Example:
gateway:~# shorewall6 version -a
4.4.10-RC1
shorewall: 4.4.10-RC1
shorewall-lite: 4.4.10-RC1
shorewall6-lite: 4.4.10-RC1
shorewall-init: 4.4.10-RC1
gateway:~#
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1) Logical interface names in the EXTERNAL column of
/etc/shorewall/proxyarp were previously not mapped to their
corresponding physical interface names. This could cause 'start' or
'restart' to fail.
2) If find_first_interface_address() was unable to detect an address,
then Shorewall 4.4.8 would issue an obscure message
(startup_error: command not found) and continue.
Now, a meaningful error message is produced and the calling process
stops.
3) If LOG_VERBOSITY=0 in shorewall.conf, then when the compiled script
was executed, messages such as the following would be issued:
/var/lib/shorewall6/.restart: line 65: [: -gt: unary operator
expected
4) With optimize 4, if an unnecessary NONAT rule was included in
/etc/shorewall/rules (there was no DNAT or REDIRECT rule with the
same source zone), then 'shorewall start' and/or 'shorewall restart'
could fail with invalid iptables-restore input.
5) The tarball installers now check for the presence of the CLI
program (/sbin/shorewall, /sbin/shorewall6, etc) to determine if a
fresh install or an upgrade should be performed. Previously, the
installers used the presense of the configuration directory
(/etc/shorewall, /etc/shorewall6, etc.) which led to incomplete
installations where there was an existing configuration directory.
6) The fallback.sh scripts have been removed from Shorewall-lite,
Shorewall6, and Shorewall6-lite. These scripts no longer work and
should have been removed in 4.4.0.
7) The -lite products previously were inconsistent in how they
referred to their startup log. Some references included '-lite'
where some did not. This was particularly bad in the case of the
Shorewall-lite logrotate file which duplicated the name used by the
Shorewall package. This inconsistency could cause logrotate to
fail if both packages were installed.
8) Two additional problems with optimize 4 have been corrected. One
manifested as invalid iptables-restore input involving the 'tcpre'
mangle chain. The other involved wildcard interface names (those
ending in '+') and would likely also result in invalid
iptables-restore input.
9) Previously, Shorewall would set up infrastructure to handle traffic
from the firewall to bport zones. Such infrastructure could never
be used. Now, Shorewall avoids setting up these unneeded chains
and/or rules.
10) If optimization level 2 and there were no OUTPUT rules and the only
effective output policy was $FW->all ACCEPT, then the OUTPUT chain
was empty and no packets could be sent.
11) If find_first_interface_address() was called in the params file, a
fatal error occured on start/restart.
12) The following valid configuration produced invalid
iptables-restore input with optimization level 4.
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
vpn tun+ -
/etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT
tun0 192.168.1.0/24
Use of tunN in the nat and netmap files also produced invalid
iptables-restore input.
2) '/sbin/shorewall version -a' now shows the versions of all installed
Shorewall packages.
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1) The compiler now auto-detects bridges for the purpose of setting
the 'routeback' option. Auto-detection is disabled when compiling
for export (-e option); note that -e is implicit in the 'load' and
'reload' commands.
2) When 'trace' is specified on a command that involves the compiler
(e.g., shorewall trace check), the compiler now creates a trace to
standard output.
Trace entries are of three types:
Input --- begin with IN===>. Input read from configuration
files. Comments have been
stripped, continuation lines
combined and shell variables
expanded.
Output --- begin with GS----->. Text written to the generated
script.
Netfilter -- begin with NF-(x)->. Updates to the compiler's chain
table, where 'x' is one of the
following:
N - Create a chain.
A - Append a rule to a chain.
R - Replace a rule in a chain.
I - Inserted a rule into a chain.
T - Shell source text appended/inserted into a chain --
converted into rules at run-time.
D - Deleted Rule from a chain; note that this causes the
following rules to be renumbered.
X - Deleted a chain
P - Change a built-in chains policy. Chains in the filter table
are created with a DROP policy. All other builtin chains
have policy ACCEPT.
! Followed by one or more of the following to indicate that
the operation is not allowed on the chain.
O - Optimize
D - Delete
M - Move rules
Netfilter trace records indicate the table and chain being
changed. If the change involves a particular rule, then the rule
number is also included.
Example (append the first rule to the filter FORWARD chain):
NF-(A)-> filter:FORWARD:1 ...
If the trace record involves the chain itself, then no rule number
is present.
Example (Delete the mangle tcpost chain):
NF-(X)-> mangle:tcpost
3) Thanks to Vincent Smeets, there is now an IPv6 mDNS macro.
4) Optimize 8 has been added. This optimization level eliminates
duplicate chains. So to set all possible optimizations, specify
OPTIMIZE=15.
5) The command-line tools now support 'show log <regex>' where <regex>
is a regular expression to search for in the LOGFILE. The command
searches the current LOGFILE for Netfilter messages matching the
supplied regex.
6) There are some instances where a bridge with no IP address is
configured. Prior to Shorewall 4.4.9, this required the following:
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
dummy br0 - routeback
/etc/shorewall/policy:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY
dummy all DROP
all dummy DROP
Beginning in this release, a single entry will suffice:
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
- br0 - bridge
7) The generated ruleset now uses conntrack match for state matching,
if it is available.
8) In /etc/shorewall/routestopped, the 'routeback' option is assumed
if the interface has 'routeback' specified (either explicitly or
detected).
9) Apple Macs running OS X may now be used as a Shorewall
administrative system. Simply install using the tarball installer.
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1) A CONTINUE rule specifying a log level would cause the compiler to
generate an incorrect rule sequence. The packet would be logged
but the CONTINUE action would not occur.
2) If multiple entries were present in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and
globally unique class numbers were not explicitly specified in
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses, then 'shorewall start' would fail with a
diagnostic such as:
Setting up Traffic Control...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
ERROR: Command "tc qdisc add dev eth1 parent 2:2 handle 2: sfq quantum
1500 limit 127 perturb 10" Failed
Processing /etc/shorewall/stop ...
3) Previously, when a low per-IP rate limit (such as 1/hour) was
specified, the effective enforced rate was much higher
(approximately 6/min). The Shorewall compiler now configures the
hashlimit table idle timeout based on the rate units (min, hour,
...) so that the rate is more accurately enforced.
As part of this change, a unique hash table name is assigned to
each per-IP rate limiting rule that does not specify a table name
in the rule. The assigned names are of the form 'shorewallN' where
N is an integer. Previously, all such rules shared a single
'shorewall' table which lead to unexpected results.
4) All versions of Shorewall-perl mishandle per-IP rate limiting in
REDIRECT, DNAT and ACCEPT+ rules. The effective rate and burst are
1/2 of the values given in the rule.
5) Detection of the 'Old hashlimit match' capability was broken in
/sbin/shorewall, /sbin/shorewall-lite and in the IPv4 version of
shorecap.
6) On older distributions such as RHEL5 and derivatives, Shorewall
would fail to start if a TYPE was specified in
/etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces and LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY had been
specified in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
7) The Debian init scripts are modified to include $remote_fs in the
Required-start and Required-stop specifications.
8) Previously, when a supported command failed, the Debian Shorewall
init script would still return a success (zero) exit status. It now
returns a failure status (1) when the command fails.
9) Previously, if a queue number was specified in an NFQUEUE policy
(e.g., NFQUEUE(0)), invalid iptables-restore input would be
generated.
10) Previously, with optimization 4, users of ipsec on older releases
such as RHEL5 and CentOS, could encounter an error similar to this
one:
Running /sbin/iptables-restore...
iptables-restore v1.3.5: Unknown arg `out'
Error occurred at line: 93
Try `iptables-restore -h' or 'iptables-restore --help' for more
information.
ERROR: iptables-restore Failed. Input is in
/var/lib/shorewall/.iptables-restore-input
11) Previously, with optimization 4, the 'blacklst' chain could be
optimized away. If the blacklist file was then changed and a
'shorewall refresh' executed, those new changes would not be included
in the active ruleset.
12) In 4.4.7, it was documented that setting the 'bridge' option in an
interfaces file entry also set 'routeback'. That feature was
incomplete with the result that 'routeback' still needed to be
specified.
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1) To avoid variable name collisions, a number of shell variable names
that Shorewall uses and that are in all capital letters have been
changed. The following variables are now safe to use in your
/etc/shorewall/params file and in your extension scripts:
DEBUG
ECHO_E
ECHO_N
EXPORT
FAST
HOSTNAME
IPT_OPTIONS
NOROUTES
PREVIEW
PRODUCT
PROFILE
PURGE
RECOVERING
RESTOREPATH
RING_BELL
STOPPING
TEST
TIMESTAMP
USE_VERBOSITY
VERBOSE
VERBOSE_OFFSET
VERSION
See Migration Issue 14 above for additional information.
2) The Shorewall and Shorewall6 installers now accept a '-s' (sparse)
option. That option causes only shorewall.conf to be installed in
/etc/shorewall/.
3) An OpenPGP HTTP Keyserver Protocol (HKP) macro (macro.HKP) has been
contributed.
4) In an attempt to help those who don't read the documentation, the
compiler now flags apparent use of '-' as a port range separator
with an error message.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/rules
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST
# PORT(S)
ACCEPT net fw tcp 21-22
Resulting error message
ERROR: The separator for a port range is ':', not '-' (21-22) :
/etc/shorewall/rules (line 3)
5) Support has been added for UDPLITE (proto 136) in that DEST PORT(S)
and SOURCE PORT(S) may now be specified for that protocol.
6) If a runtime error occurs during a 'start' or 'restart' operation
but a saved configuration is successfully restored, a subsequent
'status' command now gives the detailed status as 'Restored from
<filename>' rather than 'Started'; <filename> is the saved script
used to restore the configuration.
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1) The tcinterfaces and tcpri files are now installed by the
installer and are included in the rpm.
2) An invalid octal number (e.g., 080) appearing in a port list
resulted in a perl error message.
As part of this fix, both hex and octal numbers are now accepted
for protocol and port numbers.
3) In 4.4.6, if a system:
a) Had mangle table support.
b) Had a FORWARD chain in the mangle table.
c) Did not have MARK Target support.
then 'shorewall start' would fail.
4) Previously, the 'nosmurfs' option was ignored in IPv6
compilations. As part of this fix, 'nosmurfs' handling when
SMURF_LOG_LEVEL is specified has been improved for both IPv4 and
IPv6.
5) Previously, specifying a TYPE in /etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces would
cause start/restart to fail on systems lacking 'flow' classifier
support. In Shorewall 4.4.7, we detect the ability of the 'tc'
utility to support that classifier.
There are two caveats:
- 'tc' may support 'flow' but the kernel does not. In that case,
start/restart will still fail.
- If you use a capabilities file, you will need to regenerate the
file using shorewall-lite 4.4.7 in order for 'flow' to be
accurately detected. If you do not regenerate the file, the
compiler will use other hints to try to determine if 'flow' is
available.
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1) The OPTIMIZE option value is now a bit-map with each bit
controlling a separate set of optimizations.
- The low-order bit (value 1) controls optimizations available in
earlier releases. We refer to this optimization as "optimization
1".
- The next bit (value 2) suppresses superfluous ACCEPT rules in a
policy chain that implements an ACCEPT policy. Any ACCEPT rules
that immediately preceed the final blanket ACCEPT rule in the
chain are now omitted. We refer to this optimization as
"optimization 2".
- The next bit (value 4 or "optimization 4") enables the following
additional optimizations:
a) Empty chains are optimized away.
b) Chains with one rule are optimized away.
c) If a built-in chain has a single rule that branches to a
second chain, then the rules from the second chain are moved
to the built-in chain and the target chain is omitted.
d) Chains with no references are deleted.
e) Accounting chains are subject to optimization if the new
OPTIMIZE_ACCOUNTING option is set to 'Yes' (default is 'No').
f) If a chain ends with an unconditional branch to a second chain
(other than to 'reject'), then the branch is deleted from the
first chain and the rules from the second chain are appended
to it.
The following chains are exempted from optimization 4:
action chains (user-created).
accounting chains (unless OPTIMIZE_ACCOUNTING=Yes)
dynamic
forwardUPnP
logdrop
logreject
rules chains (those of the form zonea2zoneb or zonea-zoneb).
UPnP (nat table).
To enable all possible optimizations, set OPTIMIZE to 7 (1 + 2 +
4).
2) Shorewall now combines identical logging chains. Previously, a
separate chain was created for each logging rule.
3) Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.7, accounting can be disabled by
setting ACCOUNTING=No in shorewall.conf. This allows you to keep a
set of accounting rules configured in /etc/shorewall/accounting and
to then enable and disable them by simply toggling the setting of
ACCOUNTING.
Similarly, dynamic blacklisting can be disabled by setting
DYNAMIC_BLACKLIST=No. This saves a jump rule in the INPUT
and FORWARD filter chains..
4) Shorewall can now automatically assign mark values to providers in
cases where 'track' is specified (or TRACK_PROVIDERS=Yes) but
packet marking is otherwise not used for directing connections to a
particular provider. Simply specify '-' in the MARK column and
Shorewall will automatically assign a mark value.
5) Support for TPROXY has been added. See
http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html#TPROXY.
6) Traditionally, Shorewall has loaded all modules that could possibly
be needed twice; once in the compiler, and once when the generated
script is initialized. The latter can be a time-consuming process
on slow hardware.
Beginning with 4.4.7, there is a LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY option in
shorewall.conf. For existing users, LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=No is the
default.
For new users that employ the sample configurations,
LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes will be the default. That setting causes only
a small subset of modules to be loaded; it is assumed that the
remaining modules will be autoloaded. Additionally, capability
detection in the compiler is deferred until each capability is
actually used. As a consequence, no modules are autoloaded
unnecessarily.
Modules loaded when LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes are the protocol
helpers. These cannot be autoloaded.
In addition, the nf_conntrack_sip module is loaded with
sip_direct_media=0. This setting is slightly less secure than
sip_direct_media=1, but it solves many VOIP problems that users
routinely encounter.
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1) A 'feature' of xtables-addons when applied to Debian Lenny causes
extra /31 networks to appear for nethash sets in the output of
"ipset -L" and "ipset -S". A hack has been added to prevent these
from being saved when Shorewall is saving IPSETS during 'stop'.
As part of this change, the generated script is more careful about
verifying the existence of the correct ipset utility before using
it to save the contents of the sets.
2) The mDNS macro previously did not include IGMP (protocol 2) and it
did not specify the mDNS multicast address (224.0.0.251). These
omissions have been corrected.
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1) In kernel 2.6.31, the handling of the rp_filter interface option was
changed incompatibly. Previously, the effective value was determined
by the setting of net.ipv4.config.dev.rp_filter logically ANDed with
the setting of net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter.
Beginning with kernel 2.6.31, the value is the arithmetic MAX of
those two values.
Given that Shorewall sets net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter to 1 if
there are any interfaces specifying 'routefilter', specifying
'routefilter' on any interface has the effect of setting the option
on all interfaces.
To allow Shorewall to handle this issue, a number of changes were
necessary:
a) There is no way to safely determine if a kernel supports the
new semantics or the old so the Shorewall compiler uses the
kernel version reported by uname.
b) This means that the kernel version is now recorded in
the capabilities file. So if you use capabilities files, you
need to regenerate the files with Shorewall[-lite] 4.4.6 or
later.
c) If the capabilities file does not contain a kernel version,
the compiler assumes version 2.6.30 (the old rp_filter
behavior).
d) The ROUTE_FILTER option in shorewall.conf now accepts the
following values:
0 or No - Shorewall sets net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter to 0.
1 or Yes - Shorewall sets net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter to 1.
2 - Shorewall sets net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter to 2.
Keep - Shorewall does not change the setting of
net.ipv4.config.all.rp_filter if the kernel version
is 2.6.31 or later.
The default remains Keep.
e) The 'routefilter' interface option can have values 0,1 or 2. If
'routefilter' is specified without a value, the value 1 is
assumed.
2) SAVE_IPSETS=Yes has been resurrected but in a different form. With
this setting, the contents of your ipsets are saved during 'shorewall
stop' and 'shorewall save' and they are restored during 'shorewall
start' and 'shorewall restore'. Note that the contents may only be
restored during 'restore' if the firewall is currently in the
stopped state and there are no ipsets currently in use. In
particular, when 'restore' is being executed to recover from a
failed start/restart, the contents of the ipsets are not changed.
When SAVE_IPSETS=Yes, you may not include ipsets in your
/etc/shorewall/routestopped configuration.
3) IPv6 addresses following a colon (":") may either be surrounded by
<..> or by the more standard [..].
4) A DHCPfwd macro has been added that allows unicast DHCP traffic to
be forwarded through the firewall. Courtesy of Tuomo Soini.
5) Shorewall (/sbin/shorewall) now supports a 'show macro' command:
shorewall show macro <macro>
Example:
shorewall show macro LDAP
The command displays the contents of the macro.<macro> file.
6) You may now preview the generated ruleset by using the '-r' option
to the 'check' command (e.g., "shorewall check -r").
The output is a shell script fragment, similar to the way it
appears in the generated script.
7) It is now possible to enable a simplified traffic shaping
facility by setting TC_ENABLED=Simple in shorewall.conf.
See http://www.shorewall.net/simple_traffic_shaping.html for
details.
8) Previously, when TC_EXPERT=No, packets arriving through 'tracked'
provider interfaces were unconditionally passed to the PREROUTING
tcrules. This was done so that tcrules could reset the packet mark
to zero, thus allowing the packet to be routed using the 'main'
routing table. Using the main table allowed dynamic routes (such as
those added for VPNs) to be effective.
The route_rules file was created to provide a better alternative
to clearing the packet mark. As a consequence, passing these
packets to PREROUTING complicates things without providing any real
benefit.
Beginning with this release, when TRACK_PROVIDERS=Yes and TC_EXPERT=No,
packets arriving through 'tracked' interfaces will not be passed to
the PREROUTING rules. Since TRACK_PROVIDERS was just introduced in
4.4.3, this change should be transparent to most, if not all, users.
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1) The change which removed the 15 port limitation on
/etc/shorewall/routestopped was incomplete. The result was that if
more than 15 ports were listed, an error was generated.
2) If any interfaces had the 'bridge' option specified, compilation
failed with the error:
Undefined subroutine &Shorewall::Rules::match_source_interface called
at /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Rules.pm line 2319.
3) The compiler now flags port number 0 as an error in all
contexts. Previously, port 0 was allowed with the result that
invalid iptables-restore input could be generated in some cases.
4) The 'show policies' command now works in Shorewall6 and
Shorewall6-lite.
5) Traffic shaping modules from /lib/modules/<version>/net/sched/ are
now correctly loaded. Previously, that directory was not
searched. Additionally, Shorewall6 now tries to load the cls_flow
module; previously, only Shorewall attempts to load that module.
6) The Shorewall6-lite shorecap program was previously including the
IPv4 base library rather than the IPv6 version. Also, Shorewall6
capability detection was determing the availablity of the mangle
capability before it had determined if ip6tables was installed.
7) The setting of MODULE_SUFFIX was previously ignored except when
compiling for export.
8) Detection of the Enhanced Reject capability in the compiler was
broken for IPv4 compilations.
9) The 'reload -c' command would ignore the setting of DONT_LOAD in
shorewall.conf. The 'reload' command without '-c' worked as
expected.
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1) Shorewall now allows DNAT rules that change only the destination
port.
Example:
DNAT loc net::456 udp 234
That rule will modify the destination port in UDP packets received
from the 'loc' zone from 456 to 234. Note that if the destination
is the firewall itself, then the destination port will be rewritten
but that no ACCEPT rule from the loc zone to the $FW zone will have
been created to handle the request. So such rules should probably
exclude the firewall's IP addresses in the ORIGINAL DEST column.
2) Systems that do not log Netfilter messages locally can now set
LOGFILE=/dev/null in shorewall.conf.
3) The 'shorewall show connections' and 'shorewall dump' commands now
display the current number of connections and the max supported
connections.
Example:
shorewall show connections
Shorewall 4.5.0 Connections (62 out of 65536) at gateway - Sat ...
In that case, there were 62 current connections out of a maximum
number supported of 65536.
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1) In some simple one-interface configurations, the following Perl
run-time error messages were issued:
Generating Rule Matrix...
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 649.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
/usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains.pm line 649.
Creating iptables-restore input...
2) The Shorewall operations log (specified by STARTUP_LOG) is now
secured 0600.
3) Previously, the compiler generated an incorrect test for interface
availability in the generated code for adding route rules. The
result was that the rules were always added, regardless of the
state of the provider's interface. Now, the rules are only added
when the interface is available.
4) When TC_WIDE_MARKS=Yes and class numbers are not explicitly
specified in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses, duplicate class numbers
result. A typical error message is:
ERROR: Command "tc class add dev eth3 parent 1:1 classid
1:1 htb rate 1024kbit ceil 100000kbit prio 1 quantum 1500"
Failed
Note that the class ID of the class being added is a duplicate of
the parent's class ID.
Also, when TC_WIDE_MARKS=Yes, values > 255 in the MARK column of
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses were rejected.
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1) The Shorewall packages now include a logrotate configuration file.
2) The limit of 15 entries in a port list has been relaxed in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped.
3) The following seemingly valid configuration produces a fatal
error reporting "Duplicate interface name (p+)"
/etc/shorewall/zones:
#ZONE TYPE
fw firewall
world ipv4
z1:world bport4
z2:world bport4
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
world br0 - bridge
world br1 - bridge
z1 br0:p+
z2 br1:p+
This error occurs because the Shorewall implementation requires
that each bridge port must have a unique name.
To work around this problem, a new 'physical' interface option has
been created. The above configuration may be defined using the
following in /etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
world br0 - bridge
world br1 - bridge
z1 br0:x+ - physical=p+
z2 br1:y+ - physical=p+
In this configuration, 'x+' is the logical name for ports p+ on
bridge br0 while 'y+' is the logical name for ports p+ on bridge
br1.
If you need to refer to a particular port on br1 (for example
p1023), you write it as y1023; Shorewall will translate that name
to p1023 when needed.
It is allowed to have a physical name ending in '+' with a logical
name that does not end with '+'. The reverse is not allowed; if the
logical name ends in '+' then the physical name must also end in
'+'.
This feature is not restricted to bridge ports. Beginning with this
release, the interface name in the INTERFACE column can be
considered a logical name for the interface, and the actual
interface name is specified using the 'physical' option. If no
'physical' option is present, then the physical name is assumed to
be the same as the logical name. As before, the logical interface
name is used throughout the rest of the configuration to refer to
the interface.
4) Previously, Shorewall has used the character '2' to form the name
of chains involving zones and/or the word 'all' (e.g., fw2net,
all2all). When zones names are given numeric suffixes, these
generated names are hard to read (e.g., foo1232bar). To make these
names clearer, a ZONE2ZONE option has been added.
ZONE2ZONE has a default value of "2" but can also be given the
value "-" (e.g., ZONE2ZONE="-") which causes Shorewall to separate
the two parts of the name with a hyphen (e.g., foo123-bar).
5) Only one instance of the following warning is now generated;
previously, one instance of a similar warning was generated for
each COMMENT encountered.
COMMENTs ignored -- require comment support in iptables/Netfilter
6) The shorewall and shorewall6 utilities now support a 'show
policies' command. Once Shorewall or Shorewall6 has been restarted
using a script generated by this version, the 'show policies'
command will list each pair of zones and give the applicable
policy. If the policy is enforced in a chain, the name of the chain
is given.
Example:
net => loc DROP using chain net2all
Note that implicit intrazone ACCEPT policies are not displayed for
zones associated with a single network where that network
doesn't specify 'routeback'.
7) The 'show' and 'dump' commands now support an '-l' option which
causes chain displays to include the rule number of each rule.
(Type 'iptables -h' and look for '--line-number')
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1. Previously, if 'routeback' was specified in /etc/shorewall/routestopped:
a) 'shorewall check' produced an internal error
b) The 'routeback' option didn't work
2) If an alias IP address was added and RETAIN_ALIASES=No in
shorewall.conf, then a compiler internal error resulted.
3) Previously, the generated script would try to detect the values
for all run-time variables (such as IP addresses), regardless of
what command was being executed. Now, this information is only
detected when it is needed.
4) Nested zones where the parent zone was defined by a wildcard
interface (name ends with +) in /etc/shorewall/interfaces did
not work correctly in some cases.
5) IPv4 addresses embedded in IPv6 (e.g., ::192.168.1.5) were
incorrectly reported as invalid.
6) Under certain circumstances, optional providers were not detected
as being usable.
Additionally, the messages issued when an optional provider was not
usable were confusing; the message intended to be issued when the
provider shared an interface ("WARNING: Gateway <gateway> is not
reachable -- Provider <name> (<number>) not Added") was being
issued when the provider did not share an interface. Similarly, the
message intended to be issued when the provider did not share an
interface ("WARNING: Interface <interface> is not usable --
Provider <name> (<number>) not Added") was being issued when the
provider did share an interface.
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1) On Debian systems, a default installation will now set
INITLOG=/dev/null in /etc/default/shorewall. In all configurations,
the default values for the log variables are changed to:
STARTUP_LOG=/var/log/shorewall-init.log
LOG_VERBOSITY=2
The effect is much the same as the old defaults, with the exception
that:
a) Start, stop, etc. commands issued through /sbin/shorewall
will be logged.
b) Logging will occur at maximum verbosity.
c) Log entries will be date/time stamped.
On non-Debian systems, new installs will now log all Shorewall
commands to /var/log/shorewall-init.log.
2) A new TRACK_PROVIDERS option has been added in shorewall.conf.
The value of this option becomes the default for the 'track'
provider option in /etc/shorewall/providers.
3) A new 'limit' option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses. This option specifies the number of
packets that are allowed to be queued within the class. Packets
exceeding this limit are dropped. The default value is 127 which is
the value that earlier versions of Shorewall used. The option is
ignored with a warning if the 'pfifo' option has been specified.
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1) Detection of Persistent SNAT was broken in the rules compiler.
2) Initialization of the compiler's chain table was occurring before
shorewall.conf had been read and before the capabilities had been
determined. This could lead to incorrect rules and Perl runtime
errors.
3) The 'shorewall check' command previously did not detect errors in
/etc/shorewall/routestopped.
4) In earlier versions, if a file with the same name as a built-in
action were present in the CONFIG_PATH, then the compiler would
process that file like it was an extension script.
The compiler now ignores the presence of such files.
5) Several configuration issues which previously produced an error or
warning are now handled differently.
a) MAPOLDACTIONS=Yes and MAPOLDACTIONS= in shorewall.conf are now
handled as they were by the old shell-based compiler. That is,
they cause pre-3.0 built-in actions to be mapped automatically
to the corresponding macro invocation.
b) SAVE_IPSETS=Yes no longer produces a fatal error -- it is now a
warning.
c) DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes no longer produces a fatal error -- it is now
a warning.
d) RFC1918_STRICT=Yes no longer produces a fatal error -- it is now
a warning.
6) Previously, it was not possible to specify an IP address range in
the ADDRESS column of /etc/shorewall/masq. Thanks go to Jessee
Shrieve for the patch.
7) The 'wait4ifup' script included for Debian compatibility now runs
correctly with no PATH.
8) The new per-IP LIMIT feature now works with ancient iptables
releases (e.g., 1.3.5 as found on RHEL 5). This change required
testing for an additional capability which means that those who use
a capabilities file should regenerate that file after installing
4.4.2.
9) One unintended difference between Shorewall-shell and
Shorewall-perl was that Shorewall-perl did not support the MARK
column in action bodies. This has been corrected.
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1) Prior to this release, line continuation has taken precedence over
#-style comments. This prevented us from doing the following:
ACCEPT net:206.124.146.176,\ #Gateway
206.124.146.177,\ #Mail
206.124.146.178\ #Server
...
Now, unless a line ends with '\', any trailing comment is stripped
off (including any white-space preceding the '#'). Then if the line
ends with '\', it is treated as a continuation line as normal.
2) Three new columns have been added to FORMAT-2 macro bodies.
MARK
CONNLIMIT
TIME
These three columns correspond to the similar columns in
/etc/shorewall/rules and must be empty in macros invoked from an
action.
3) Accounting chains may now have extension scripts. Simply place your
Perl script in the file /etc/shorewall/<chain> and when the
accounting chain named <chain> is created, your script will be
invoked.
As usual, the variable $chainref will contain a reference to the
chain's table entry.
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1) If ULOG was specified as the LOG LEVEL in the all->all policy, the
rules at the end of the INPUT and OUTPUT chains would still use the
LOG target rather than ULOG.
2) Using CONTINUE policies with a nested IPSEC zone was still broken
in some cases.
3) The setting of IP_FORWARDING has been change to Off in the
one-interface sample configuration since forwarding is typically
not required with only a single interface.
4) If MULTICAST=Yes in shorewall.conf, multicast traffic was
incorrectly exempted from ACCEPT policies.
5) Previously, the definition of a zone that specified "nets=" in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces could not be extended by entries in
/etc/shorewall/hosts.
6) Previously, "nets=" could be specified in a multi-zone interface
definition ("-" in the ZONES column) in /etc/shorewall/zones. This
now raises a fatal compilation error.
7) MULTICAST=Yes generates an incorrect rule that limits its
effectiveness to a small part of the multicast address space.
8) Checking for zone membership has been tighened up. Previously,
a zone could contain <interface>:0.0.0.0/0 along with other hosts;
now, if the zone has <interface>:0.0.0.0/0 (even with exclusions),
then it may have no additional members in /etc/shorewall/hosts.
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1) To replace the SAME keyword in /etc/shorewall/masq, support has
been added for 'persistent' SNAT. Persistent SNAT is required when
an address range is specified in the ADDRESS column and when you
want a client to always receive the same source/destination IP
pair. It replaces SAME: which was removed in Shorewall 4.4.0.
To specify persistence, follow the address range with
":persistent".
Example:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS
eth0 0.0.0.0/0 206.124.146.177-206.124.146.179:persistent
This feature requires Persistent SNAT support in your kernel and
iptables.
If you use a capabilities file, you will need to create a new one
as a result of this feature.
WARNING: Linux kernels beginning with 2.6.29 include persistent
SNAT support. If your iptables supports persistent SNAT but your
kernel does not, there is no way for Shorewall to determine that
persistent SNAT isn't going to work. The kernel SNAT code blindly
accepts all SNAT flags without verifying them and returns them to
iptables when asked.
2) A 'clean' target has been added to the Makefiles. It removes backup
files (*~ and .*~).
3) The meaning of 'full' has been redefined when used in the context
of a traffic shaping sub-class. Previously, 'full' always meant the
OUT-BANDWIDTH of the device. In the case of a sub-class, however,
that definition is awkward to use because the sub-class is limited
by the parent class.
Beginning with this release, 'full' in a sub-class definition
refers to the specified rate defined for the parent class. So
'full' used in the RATE column refers to the parent class's RATE;
when used in the CEIL column, 'full' refers to the parent class's
CEIL.
As part of this change, the compiler now issues a warning if the
sum of the top-level classes' RATEs exceeds the OUT-BANDWIDTH of
the device. Similarly, a warning is issued if the sum of the RATEs
of a class's sub-classes exceeds the rate of the CLASS.
4) When 'nets=<network>' or 'nets=(<net1>,<net2>,...) is specified in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces, multicast traffic will now be sent to
the zone along with limited broadcasts.
5) A flaw in the parsing logic for the zones file allowed most zone
types containing the character string 'ip' to be accepted as a
synonym for 'ipv4' (or ipv6 if compiling an IPv6 configuration).
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1) The Shorewall packaging has been completely revamped in Shorewall
4.4.
The new packages are:
- Shorewall. Includes the former Shorewall-common and
Shorewall-perl packages. Includes everything needed
to create an IPv4 firewall.
Shorewall-shell is no longer available.
- Shorewall6. Requires Shorewall. Adds the components necessary to
create an IPv6 firewall.
- Shorewall-lite
May be installed on a firewall system to run
IPv4 firewall scripts generated by Shorewall.
- Shorewall6-lite
May be installed on a firewall system to run
IPv6 firewall scripts generated by Shorewall6.
2) The interfaces file supports a new 'nets=' option. This option
allows you to restrict a zone's definition to particular networks
through an interface without having to use the hosts file.
Example interfaces file:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
loc eth3 detect dhcp,logmartians=1,routefilter=1,nets=172.20.1.0/24
dmz eth4 detect logmartians=1,routefilter=1,nets=206.124.146.177
net eth0 detect dhcp,blacklist,tcpflags,optional,routefilter=0,nets=(!172.20.0.0/24,206.124.146.177)
net eth2 detect dhcp,blacklist,tcpflags,optional,upnp,routefilter=0,nets=(!172.20.0.0/24,206.124.146.177)
loc tun+ detect nets=172.20.0.0/24
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE
Note that when more than one network address is listed, the list
must be enclosed in parentheses. Notice also that exclusion may be
used.
The first entry in the above interfaces file is equivalent to the
following:
interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
- eth0 detect dhcp,logmartians=1,routefilter=1
hosts:
#ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS
loc $INT_IF:192.20.1.0/24 broadcast
Note that the 'broadcast' option is automatically assumed and need
not be explicitly specified.
3) Some websites run applications that require multiple connections
from a client browser. Where multiple 'balanced' providers are
configured, this can lead to problems when some of the connections
are routed through one provider and some through another.
To work around this issue, the SAME target has been added to
/etc/shorewall/tcrules. SAME may be used in the PREROUTING and
OUTPUT chains. When used in PREROUTING, it causes matching
connections from an individual local system to all use the same
provider.
For example:
SAME:P 192.168.1.0/24 - tcp 80,443
If a host in 192.168.1.0/24 attempts a connection on TCP port 80 or
443 and it has sent a packet on either of those ports in the last
five minutes then the new connection will use the same provider as
the connection over which that last packet was sent.
When used in the OUTPUT chain, it causes all matching connections
to an individual remote system to use the same provider.
For example:
SAME $FW - tcp 80,443
If the firewall attempts a connection on TCP port 80 or
443 and it has sent a packet on either of those ports in the last
five minutes to the same remote system then the new connection will
use the same provider as the connection over which that last packet
was sent.
Important note: SAME only works with providers that have the
'track' option specified in /etc/shorewall/providers.
4) The file /var/lib/shorewall/.restore has been renamed to
/var/lib/shorewall/firewall. A similar change has been made in
Shorewall6.
When a successful start or restart is completed, the script that
executed the command copies itself to
/var/lib/shorewall[6]/firewall.
As always, /var/lib/shorewall[6] is the default directory which may
be overridden using the /etc/shorewall[6]/vardir file.
5) Dynamic zone support is once again available for IPv4. This support
is built on top of ipsets so you must have the xtables-addons
installed on the firewall system.
See http://www.shorewall.net/Dynamic.html for information about
this feature and for instructions for installing xtables-addons on
your firewall.
Dynamic zones are available when Shorewall-lite is used as well.
You define a zone as having dynamic content in one of two ways:
- By specifying nets=dynamic in the OPTIONS column of an entry for
the zone in /etc/shorewall/interfaces; or
- By specifying <interface>:dynamic in the HOST(S) column of an
entry for the zone in /etc/shorewall/hosts.
When there are any dynamic zones present in your configuration,
Shorewall (Shorewall-lite) will:
a) Execute the following commands during 'shorewall start' or
'shorewall-lite start'.
ipset -U :all: :all:
ipset -U :all: :default:
ipset -F
ipset -X
ipset -R < ${VARDIR}/ipsets.save
where $VARDIR normally contains /var/lib/shorewall
(/var/lib/shorewall-lite) but may be modified by
/etc/shorewall/vardir (/etc/shorewall-lite/vardir).
b) During 'start', 'restart' and 'restore' processing, Shorewall
will attempt to create an ipset named <zone>_<interface>
for each zone/interface pair that has been specified as
dynamic. The type of ipset created is 'iphash' so that only
individual IPv4 addresses may be added to the set.
c) Execute the following commands during 'shorewall stop' or
'shorewall-lite stop':
if ipset -S > ${VARDIR}/ipsets.tmp; then
mv -f ${VARDIR}/ipsets.tmp ${VARDIR}/ipsets.save
fi
The 'shorewall add' and 'shorewall delete' commands are supported
with their original syntax:
add <interface>[:<host-list>] ... <zone>
delete <interface>[:<host-list>] ... <zone>
In addition, the 'show dynamic' command is added that lists the dynamic
content of a zone.
show dynamic <zone>
These commands are supported by shorewall-lite as well.
6) The generated program now attempts to detect all dynamic
information when it first starts. Dynamic information includes IP
addresses, default gateways, networks routed through an interface,
etc. If any of those steps fail, an error message is generated and
the state of the firewall is not changed.
7) To improve the readability of configuration files, Shorewall now
allows leading white space in continuation lines when the continued
line ends in ":" or ",".
Example (/etc/shorewall/rules):
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST
# PORT(S)
ACCEPT net:\
206.124.146.177,\
206.124.146.178,\
206.124.146.180\
dmz tcp 873
The leading white space on the lines that contain just an IP
address is ignored so the SOURCE column effectively contains
"net:206.124.146.177,206.124.147.178,206.124.146.180".
8) The generated script now uses iptables[6]-restore to instantiate
the Netfilter ruleset during processing of the 'stop' command. As a
consequence, the 'critical' option in /etc/shorewall/routestopped
is no longer needed and will result in a warning.
9) A new AUTOMAKE option has been added to shorewall.conf and
shorewall6.conf. When set to 'Yes', this option causes new behavior
during processing of the 'start' and 'restart' commands; if no
files in /etc/shorewall/ (/etc/shorewall6) have changed since the last
'start' or 'restart', then the compilation step is skipped and the
script used during the last 'start' or 'restart' is used to
start/restart the firewall.
Note that if a <directory> is specified in the start/restart
command (e.g., "shorewall restart /etc/shorewall.new") then the
setting of AUTOMAKE is ignored.
Note that the 'make' utility must be installed on the firewall
system in order for AUTOMAKE=Yes to work correctly.
10) The 'compile' command now allows you to omit the <pathname>. When
you do that, the <pathname> defaults to /var/lib/shorewall/firewall
(/var/lib/shorewall6/firewall) unless you have overridden VARDIR
using /etc/shorewall/vardir (/etc/shorewall6/vardir).
When combined with AUTOMAKE=Yes, it allows the following:
gateway:~ # shorewall compile
Compiling...
Shorewall configuration compiled to /root/shorewall/firewall
gateway:~ #
...
gateway:~ # shorewall restart
Restarting Shorewall....
done.
gateway:~ #
In other words, you can compile the current configuration then
install it at a later time.
11) Thanks to I. Buijs, it is now possible to rate-limit connections by
source IP or destination IP. The LIMIT:BURST column in
/etc/shorewall/policy (/etc/shorewall6/policy) and the RATE LIMIT
column /etc/shorewall/rules (/etc/shorewall6/rules) have been
extended as follows:
[{s|d}:[[<name>]:]]<rate>/{sec|min}[:<burst>]
When s: is specified, the rate is per source IP address.
When d: is specified, the rate is per destination IP address.
The <name> specifies the name of a hash table -- you get to choose
the name. If you don't specify a name, the name 'shorewall' is
assumed. Rules with the same name have their connection counts
aggregated and the individual rates are applied to the aggregate.
Example:
ACCEPT net fw tcp 22 - - s:ssh:3/min
This will limit SSH connections from net->fw to 3 per minute.
ACCEPT net fw tcp 25 - - s:mail:3/min
ACCEPT net fw tcp 587 - - s:mail:3/min
Since the same hash table name is used in both rules, the above is
equivalent to this single rule:
ACCEPT net fw tcp 25,587 - - s:mail:3/min
12) Rules that specify a log level with a target other than LOG or NFLOG
are now implemented through a separate chain. While this may increase
the processing cost slightly for packets that match these rules, it
is expected to reduce the overall cost of such rules because each
packet that doesn't match the rules only has to be processed once
per rule rather than twice.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/rules:
REJECT:info loc net tcp 25
This previously generated these two rules (long rules folded):
-A loc2net -p 6 --dport 25 -j LOG --log-level 6
--log-prefix "Shorewall:loc2net:reject:"
-A loc2net -p 6 --dport 25 -j reject
It now generates these rules:
:log0 - [0:0]
...
-A loc2net -p 6 --dport 25 -g log0
...
-A log0 -j LOG --log-level 6
--log-prefix "Shorewall:loc2net:REJECT:"
-A log0 -j reject
Notice that now there is only a single rule generated in the
'loc2net' chain where before there were two. Packets for other than
TCP port 25 had to be processed by both rules.
Notice also that the new LOG rule reflects the original action
("REJECT") rather than what Shorewall maps that to ("reject").
13) Shorewall6 has now been tested on kernel 2.6.24 (Ubuntu Hardy) and
hence will now start successfully when running on that kernel.
14) Three new options (IP, TC and IPSET) have been added to
shorewall.conf and shorewall6.conf. These options specify the name
of the executable for the 'ip', 'tc' and 'ipset' utilities
respectively.
If not specified, the default values are:
IP=ip
TC=tc
IPSET=ipset
In other words, the utilities will be located via the current PATH
setting.
15) There has been a desire in the user community to limit traffic by
IP address using Shorewall traffic shaping. Heretofore, that has
required a very inefficient process:
a) Define a tcclass for each internal host (two, if shaping both in
and out).
b) Define a tcrule for each host to mark to classify the packets
accordingly.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4, this process is made easier IF YOU
ARE WILLING TO INSTALL xtables-addons. The feature requires IPMARK
support in iptables[6] and your kernel. That support is available
in xtables-addons.
Instructions for installing xtables-addons may be found at
http://www.shorewall.net/Dynamic.html#xtables-addons.
The new facility has two components:
a) A new IPMARK MARKing command in /etc/shorewall/tcrules.
b) A new 'occurs' OPTION in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses.
The facility is currently only available with IPv4.
In a sense, the IPMARK target is more like an IPCLASSIFY target in
that the mark value is later interpreted as a class ID. A packet
mark is 32 bits wide; so is a class ID. The <major> class occupies
the high-order 16 bits and the <minor> class occupies the low-order
16 bits. So the class ID 1:4ff (remember that class IDs are always
in hex) is equivalent to a mark value of 0x104ff. Remember that
Shorewall uses the interface number as the <major> number where the
first interface in tcdevices has <major> number 1, the second has
<major> number 2, and so on.
The IPMARK target assigns a mark to each matching packet based on
the either the source or destination IP address. By default, it
assigns a mark value equal to the low-order 8 bits of the source
address.
The syntax is as follows:
IPMARK[([{src|dst}][,[<mask1>][,[<mask2>][,[<shift>]]]])]
Default values are:
src
<mask1> = 0xFF
<mask2> = 0x00
<shift> = 0
'src' and 'dst' specify whether the mark is to be based on the
source or destination address respectively.
The selected address is first shifted right by <shift>, then
LANDed with <mask1> and then LORed with <mask2>. The <shift>
argument is intended to be used primarily with IPv6 addresses.
Example:
IPMARK(src,0xff,0x10100)
Destination IP address is 192.168.4.3 = 0xc0a80403
0xc0a80403 >> 0 = 0xc0a80403
0xc0a80403 LAND 0xFF = 0x03
0x03 LOR 0x10100 = 0x10103
So the mark value is 0x10103 which corresponds to class id
1:103.
It is important to realize that, while class IDs are composed of a
<major> and a <minor> value, the set of <minor> values must be
unique. You must keep this in mind when deciding how to map IP
addresses to class IDs.
For example, suppose that your internal network is 192.168.1.0/29
(host IP addresses 192.168.1.1 - 192.168.1.6). Your first notion
might be to use IPMARK(src,0xFF,0x10000) so as to produce class IDs
1:1 through 1:6. But 1:1 is the class ID of the base HTB class on
interface 1. So you might chose instead to use
IPMARK(src,0xFF,0x10100) as shown in the example above so as to
avoid minor class 1.
The 'occurs' option in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses causes the class
definition to be replicated many times. The synax is:
occurs=<number>
When 'occurs' is used:
a) The associated device may not have the 'classify' option.
b) The class may not be the default class.
c) The class may not have any 'tos=' options (including
'tcp-ack').
d) The class should not specify a MARK value. Any MARK value
given is ignored with a warning.
The 'RATE' and 'CEIL' parameters apply to each instance of the
class. So the total RATE represented by an entry with 'occurs' will
be the listed RATE multiplied by the 'occurs' number.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices:
#INTERFACE IN-BANDWIDTH OUT-BANDWIDTH
eth0 100mbit 100mbit
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses:
#DEVICE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS
eth0:101 - 1kbit 230kbit 4 occurs=6
The above defines 6 classes with class IDs 0x101-0x106. Each
class has a guaranteed rate of 1kbit/second and a ceiling of
230kbit.
/etc/shorewall/tcrules:
#MARK SOURCE DEST
IPMARK(src,0xff,0x10100):F 192.168.1.0/29 eth0
This change also altered the way in which Shorewall generates a
class number when none is given.
- Prior to this change, the class number was constructed by concatinating
the mark value with the either '1' or '10'. '10' was used when
there were more than 10 devices defined in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices.
- Beginning with this change, a new method is added; class numbers
are assigned sequentially beginning with 2.
The WIDE_TC_MARKS option in shorewall.conf selects which
construction to use. WIDE_TC_MARKS=No (the default) produces
pre-4.4 behavior. WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes produces the new behavior.
In addition to determining the method of constructing class Ids,
WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes provides for larger mark values for traffic
shaping. Traffic shaping marks may have values up to 16383 (0x3fff)
with WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes. This means that when both WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes and
HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, routing marks (/etc/shorewall/providers MARK
column) must be >= 65536 (0x10000) and must be a multiple of 65536
(0x1000, 0x20000, 0x30000, ...).
16) In the 'shorewall compile' and 'shorewall6 compile' commands, the
filename '-' now causes the compiled script to be written to
Standard Out. As a side effect, the effective VERBOSITY is set to
-1 (silent).
Examples:
shorewall compile -- - # Compile the configuration in
# /etc/shorewall and send the
# output to STDOUT
shorewall compile . - # Compile the configuration in the
# current working directory
# and send the output to STDOUT
17) Supplying an interface name in the SOURCE column of
/etc/shorewall/masq is now deprecated. Entering the name of an
interface there will result in a compile-time warning (see the
Migration Considerations above).
18) Shorewall now supports nested HTB traffic shaping classes. The
nested classes within a class can borrow from their parent class in
the same way as the first level classes can borrow from the root
class.
To use nested classes, you must explicitly number your
classes. That does not imply that you must use the 'classify'
option.
Example:
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices
#INTERFACE IN-BANDWITH OUT-BANDWIDTH OPTIONS
eth2 - 100mbps classify
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses
#INTERFACE MARK RATE CEIL PRIORITY OPTIONS
1:10 - full/2 full 1
1:100 - 16mbit 20mbit 2
1:100:101 - 8mbit 20mbit 3 default
1:100:102 - 8mbit 20mbit 3
/etc/shorewall/tcrules
#MARK SOURCE DEST
1:102 0.0.0.0/0 eth2:172.20.1.107
1:10 206.124.146.177 eth2
1:10 172.20.1.254 eth2
The above controls download for internal interface eth2. The
external interface has a download rate of 20mbit so we guarantee
that to class 1:100. 1:100 has two subclasses, each of which is
guaranteed half of their parent's bandwidth.
Local traffic (that coming from the firewall and from the DMZ
server) is placed in the effectively unrestricted class 1:10. The
default class is guaranteed half of the download capacity and my
work system (172.20.1.107) is guarandeed the other half.
19) Support for the "Hierarchical Fair Service Curve" (HFSC) queuing
discipline has been added. HFSC is claimed to be superior to the
"Hierarchical Token Bucket" queuing discipline where realtime
traffic such as VOIP is being used.
An excellent overview of HFSC on Linux may be found at
http://linux-ip.net/articles/hfsc.en/.
To use HFSC, several changes need to be made to your traffic
shaping configuration:
- To use HFSC on an interface rather than HTB, specify the
'hfsc' option in the OPTIONS column in the interfaces's
entry in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices.
- Modify the RATE colum for each 'leaf' class (class with no
parent class specified) defined for the interface.
When using HFSC, the RATE column may specify 1, 2 or 3
pieces of information separated by colons (":").
1. The Guaranteed bandwidth (as always).
2. The Maximum delay (DMAX) that the first queued packet
in the class should experience. The delay is expressed
in milliseconds and may be followed by 'ms' (e.g.,
10ms. Note that there may be no white space between the
number and 'ms').
3. The maximum transmission unit (UMAX) for this class of
traffic. If not specified, the MTU of the interface is
used. The length is specified in bytes and may be
followed by 'b' (e.g., 800b. Note that there may be no
white space between the number and 'b').
DMAX should be specified for each leaf class. The Shorewall
compiler will issue a warning if DMAX is omitted.
Example:
full/2:10ms:1500b
Guaranteed bandwidth is 1/2 of the devices
OUT-BANDWIDTH. Maximum delay is 10ms. Maximum packet
size is 1500 bytes.
20) Optional TOS and LENGTH fields have been added to the tcfilters
file.
The TOS field may contain any of the following:
tos-minimize-delay
tos-maximuze-throughput
tos-maximize-reliability
tos-minimize-cost
tos-normal-service
Hex-number
Hex-number/Hex-number
The hex numbers must have exactly two digits.
The LENGTH value must be a numeric power of two between 32 and 8192
inclusive. Packets with a total length that is strictly less that
the specified value will match the rule.
21) Support for 'norfc1918' has been removed. See the Migration
Considerations above.
22) A 'upnpclient' option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option is intended for laptop users
who always run Shorewall on their system yet need to run
UPnP-enabled client apps such as Transmission (BitTorrent client).
The option causes Shorewall to detect the default gateway through
the interface and to accept UDP packets from that gateway. Note
that, like all aspects of UPnP, this is a security hole so use this
option at your own risk.
23) 'iptrace' and 'noiptrace' commands have been added to both
/sbin/shorewall and /sbin/shorewall6.
These are low-level debugging commands that cause
iptables/ip6tables TRACE log messages to be generated. See 'man
iptables' and 'man ip6tables' for details.
The syntax for the commands is:
iptrace <iptables/ip6tables match expression>
noiptrace <iptables/ip6tables match expression>
iptrace starts the trace; noiptrace turns it off.
The match expression must be an expression that is legal in both
the raw table OUTPUT and PREROUTING chains.
Examaple:
To trace all packets destinted for IP address 206.124.146.176:
shorewall iptrace -d 206.124.146.176
To turn that trace off:
shorewall noiptrace -d 206.124.146.176
24) A USER/GROUP column has been added to /etc/shorewall/masq. The
column works similarly to USER/GROUP columns in other Shorewall
configuration files. Only locally-generated traffic is matched.
25) A new extension script, 'lib.private' has been added. This file is
intended to include declarations of shell functions that will be
called by the other run-time extension scripts.
26) Paul Gear has contributed the following macros:
macro.Webcache (originally named macro.DG)
macro.IPPbrd
macro.NTPbi
macro.RIPbi
macro.mDNS
27) The default value of DISABLE_IPV6 has been changed from 'Yes' to
'No' in all sample shorewall.conf files. Shorewall6 should be
installed to restrict IPv6 traffic.
As part of this change, the ip6tables program in the directory
specified by the IPTABLES setting will be used to disable IPv6. If
the iptables utility is discovered using the PATH setting, then
ip6tables in the same directory as the discovered iptables will be
used.
28) A 'flow=<keys>' option has been added to the
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses OPTIONS column.
Shorewall attaches an SFQ queuing discipline to each leaf HTB
and HFSC class. SFQ ensures that each flow gets equal access to the
interface. The default definition of a flow corresponds roughly to
a Netfilter connection. So if one internal system is running
BitTorrent, for example, it can have lots of 'flows' and can thus
take up a larger share of the bandwidth than a system having only a
single active connection. The flow classifier (module cls_flow)
works around this by letting you define what a 'flow' is.
The clasifier must be used carefully or it can block off all
traffic on an interface!
The flow option can be specified for an HTB or HFSC leaf class (one
that has no sub-classes). We recommend that you use the following:
Shaping internet-bound traffic: flow=nfct-src
Shaping traffic bound for your local net: flow=dst
These will cause a 'flow' to consists of the traffic to/from each
internal system.
When more than one key is give, they must be enclosed in
parenthesis and separated by commas.
To see a list of the possible flow keys, run this command:
tc filter add flow help
Those that begin with "nfct-" are Netfilter connection tracking
fields. As shown above, we recommend flow=nfct-src; that means that
we want to use the source IP address before SNAT as the key.
Note: Shorewall cannot determine ahead of time if the flow
classifier is available in your kernel (especially if it was built
into the kernel as opposed to being loaded as a
module). Consequently, you should check ahead of time to ensure
that both your kernel and 'tc' utility support the feature.
You can test the 'tc' utility by typing (as root):
tc filter add flow help
If flow is supported, you will see:
Usage: ... flow ...
[mapping mode]: map key KEY [ OPS ] ...
[hashing mode]: hash keys KEY-LIST ...
...
If flow is not supported, you will see:
Unknown filter "flow", hence option "help" is unparsable
If your kernel supports module autoloading, just type (as root):
modprobe cls_flow
If 'flow' is supported, no output is produced; otherwise, you will
see:
FATAL: Module cls_flow not found.
If your kernel is not modularized or does not support module
autoloading, look at your kernel configuration (either
/proc/config.gz or the .config file in
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/build/
If 'flow' is supported, you will see:
NET_CLS_FLOW=m
or
NET_CLS_FLOW=y
For modularized kernels, Shorewall will attempt to load
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/net/sched/cls_flow.ko by default.
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