shorewall_code/docs/netmap.xml

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  <articleinfo>
    <title>Network Mapping</title>

    <authorgroup>
      <author>
        <firstname>Tom</firstname>

        <surname>Eastep</surname>
      </author>
    </authorgroup>

    <pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>

    <copyright>
      <year>2004-2005</year>

      <holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
    </copyright>

    <legalnotice>
      <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or mify this
      document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
      1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
      no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
      Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
      <quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
      License</ulink></quote>.</para>
    </legalnotice>
  </articleinfo>

  <section>
    <title>Why use Network Mapping</title>

    <para>Network Mapping is most often used to resolve IP address conflicts.
    Suppose that two organizations, A and B, need to be linked and that both
    organizations have allocated the 192.168.1.0/24 subnetwork. There is a
    need to connect the two networks so that all systems in A can access the
    192.168.1.0/24 network in B and vice versa without any
    re-addressing.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Solution</title>

    <para>Shorewall NETMAP support is designed to supply a solution. The basic
    situation is as shown in the following diagram.<graphic
    fileref="images/netmap.png" /></para>

    <para>While the link between the two firewalls is shown here as a VPN, it
    could be any type of interconnection that allows routing of <ulink
    url="shorewall_setup_guide.htm#RFC1918">RFC 1918</ulink> traffic.</para>

    <para>The systems in the top cloud will access the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet
    in the lower cloud using addresses in another unused /24. Similarly, the
    systems in the bottom cloud will access the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet in the
    upper cloud using a second unused /24.</para>

    <para>In order to apply this solution:</para>

    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>You must be running Shorewall 2.0.1 Beta 2 or later.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Your kernel must have NETMAP support. 2.6 Kernels have NETMAP
        support without patching while 2.4 kernels must be patched using
        Patch-O-Matic from <ulink
        url="http://www.netfilter.org">netfilter.org</ulink>.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>NETMAP support must be enabled in your kernel
        (CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=m or CONFIG_IP_NF_TARGET_NETMAP=y).</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Your iptables must have NETMAP support. NETMAP support is
        available in iptables 1.2.9 and later.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <para>Network mapping is defined using the
    <filename>/etc/shorewall/netmap</filename> file. Columns in this file
    are:</para>

    <variablelist>
      <varlistentry>
        <term>TYPE</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>Must be DNAT or SNAT.</para>

          <para>If DNAT, traffic entering INTERFACE and addressed to NET1 has
          it's destination address rewritten to the corresponding address in
          NET2.</para>

          <para>If SNAT, traffic leaving INTERFACE with a source address in
          NET1 has it's source address rewritten to the corresponding address
          in NET2.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>NET1</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>Must be expressed in CIDR format (e.g.,
          192.168.1.0/24).</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>INTERFACE</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>A firewall interface. This interface must have been defined in
          <ulink
          url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></ulink>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term>NET2</term>

        <listitem>
          <para>A second network expressed in CIDR format.</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
    </variablelist>

    <para>Referring to the figure above, lets suppose that systems in the top
    cloud are going to access the 192.168.1.0/24 network in the bottom cloud
    using addresses in 10.10.10.0/24 and that systems in the bottom could will
    access 192.168.1.0/24 in the top could using addresses in
    10.10.11.0.<important>
        <para>You must arrange for routing as follows:</para>

        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Traffic from the top cloud to 10.10.10.0/24 must be routed
            to eth0 on firewall 1.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Firewall 1 must route traffic to 10.10.10.0/24 through
            firewall 2.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Traffic from the bottom cloud to 10.10.11.0/24 must be
            routed to eth0 on firewall 2.</para>
          </listitem>

          <listitem>
            <para>Firewall 2 must route traffic to 10.10.11.0/24 through
            firewall 1.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </important> The entries in
    <filename><filename>/etc/shorewall/netmap</filename></filename> in
    firewall1 would be as follows:</para>

    <programlisting>#TYPE NET1           INTERFACE        NET2
SNAT  192.168.1.0/24 vpn              10.10.11.0/24        #RULE 1A
DNAT  10.10.11.0/24  vpn              192.168.1.0/24       #RULE 1B</programlisting>

    <para>The entry in <filename>/etc/shorewall/netmap</filename> in firewall2
    would be:</para>

    <programlisting>#TYPE NET1           INTERFACE        NET2
DNAT  10.10.10.0/24  vpn              192.168.1.0/24       #RULE 2A
SNAT  192.168.1.0/24 vpn              10.10.10.0/24        #RULE 2B</programlisting>

    <example>
      <title>192.168.1.4 in the top cloud connects to 192.168.1.27 in the
      bottom cloud</title>

      <para>In order to make this connection, the client attempts a connection
      to 10.10.10.27. The following table shows how the source and destination
      IP addresses are modified as requests are sent and replies are returned.
      The RULE column refers to the above
      <filename>/etc/shorewall/netmap</filename> entries and gives the rule
      which transforms the source and destination IP addresses to those shown
      on the next line. <informaltable>
          <tgroup cols="5">
            <thead>
              <row>
                <entry>FROM</entry>

                <entry>TO</entry>

                <entry>SOURCE IP ADDRESS</entry>

                <entry>DESTINATION IP ADDRESS</entry>

                <entry>RULE</entry>
              </row>
            </thead>

            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry>192.168.1.4 in upper cloud</entry>

                <entry>Firewall 1</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.4</entry>

                <entry>10.10.10.27</entry>

                <entry>1A</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Firewall 1</entry>

                <entry>Firewall 2</entry>

                <entry>10.10.11.4</entry>

                <entry>10.10.10.27</entry>

                <entry>2A</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Filrewall 2</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.27 in lower cloud</entry>

                <entry>10.10.11.4</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.27</entry>

                <entry></entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>192.168.1.27 in the lower cloud</entry>

                <entry>Firewall 2</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.27</entry>

                <entry>10.10.11.4</entry>

                <entry>2B</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Firewall 2</entry>

                <entry>Firewall 1</entry>

                <entry>10.10.10.27</entry>

                <entry>10.10.11.4</entry>

                <entry>1B</entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry>Firewall 1</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.4 in upper cloud</entry>

                <entry>10.10.10.27</entry>

                <entry>192.168.1.4</entry>

                <entry></entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable></para>
    </example>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Author's Notes</title>

    <para>This could all be made a bit simpler by eliminating the TYPE field
    and have Shorewall generate both the SNAT and DNAT rules from a single
    entry. I have chosen to include the TYPE in order to make the
    implementation a bit more flexible. If you find cases where you can use an
    SNAT or DNAT entry by itself, please let <ulink
    url="mailto:webmaster@shorewall.net">me</ulink> know and I'll add the
    example to this page.</para>

    <para>In the previous section, the table in the example contains a bit of
    a lie. Because of Netfilter's connection tracking, rules 2B and 1B aren't
    needed to handle the replies. They ARE needed though for hosts in the
    bottom cloud to be able to establish connections with the 192.168.1.0/24
    network in the top cloud.</para>
  </section>

  <section>
    <title>Can't I do this with one router? Why do I need two?</title>

    <para>I wrote this article before Shorewall included <ulink
    url="MultiISP.html">multiple provider support</ulink>. You should be able
    to accomplish the same thing with just one router through careful use of
    /etc/shorewall/netmap and <ulink url="MultiISP.html">multiple
    providers</ulink>. If you try it and get it working, please contribute an
    update to this article.</para>
  </section>
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