# Shorewall6 4.4 Manpages

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## Section 5 — Files and Concepts

> - accounting - Define IP accounting rules.
> - actions - Declare user-defined actions.
> - blacklist - Static blacklisting.
> - exclusion - Excluding hosts from a network or zone
> - hosts - Define multiple zones accessed through a single interface
> - interfaces - Define the interfaces on the system and optionally associate them with zones.
> - maclist - Define MAC verification.
> - modules - Specify which kernel modules to load.
> - nesting - How to define nested zones.
> - notrack - Exclude certain traffic from Netfilter6 connection tracking
> - params - Assign values to shell variables used in other files.
> - policy - Define high-level policies for connections between zones.
> - providers - Define routing tables, usually for multiple Internet links.
> - route_rules - Define routing rules.
> - routes - (Added in Shorewall 4.4.15) Add additional routes to provider routing tables.
> - routestopped - Specify connections to be permitted when Shorewall6 is in the stopped state.
> - rules - Specify exceptions to policies, including DNAT and REDIRECT.
> - secmarks - Attached an SELinux context to a packet.
> - tcclasses - Define htb classes for traffic shaping.
> - tcdevices - Specify speed of devices for traffic shaping.
> - tcinterfaces - Specify interfaces for simplified traffic shaping.
> - tcpri - Classify traffic for simplified traffic shaping.
> - tcrules - Define packet marking rules, usually for traffic shaping.
> - tos - Define TOS field manipulation.
> - tunnels - Define VPN connections with endpoints on the firewall.
> - shorewall6.conf - Specify values for global Shorewall6 options.
> - shorewall6-lite.conf - Specify values for global Shorewall6 Lite options.
> - vardir - Redefine the directory where Shorewall6 keeps its state information.
> - vardir-lite - Redefine the directory where Shorewall6 Lite keeps its state information.
> - zones - Declare Shorewall6 zones.

## Section 8 — Administrative Commands

> - shorewall6 - /sbin/shorewall6 command syntax and semantics.
> - shorewall6-lite - /sbin/shorewall6-lite command syntax and semantics.