Shorewall 4.0.0 Beta 6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- R E L E A S E H I G H L I G H T S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) This is the first Shorewall release that fully integrates the new Shorewall-perl compiler. See the "New Features" section below. 2) You are now offered a choice as to which compiler(s) you install. In 4.0.0, there are the following packages: - Shorewall ( common files ) - Shorewall-shell ( the shell-based compiler ) - Shorewall-perl (the Perl-based compiler ) You must install Shorewall and at least one of the compiler packages (you may install them both). Problems corrected in 4.0.0 Beta 6. 1) With Shorewall-perl, an invalid DISPOSITION in an /etc/shorewall/maclist entry would cause Perl error messages to be issued. 2) Shorewall-perl now catches invalid interface names in the /etc/shorewall/routestopped file. 1) DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes can now coexist with Shorewall-perl's 'bport' zones. Those zones themselves may not be dynamically modified but the presence of bport zones no longer causes the 'shorewall add' command to fail. 3) The new bridge implementation introduced with Beta 5 now works with DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes. Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.0 Beta 6 1) When a Shorewall release includes detection of an additional capability, existing capabilities files become out of date. Previously, this condition was not detected. Beginning with this release, each generated capabilities file contains a CAPVERSION specification which defines the capabilities version of the file. If the CAPVERSION in a capabilities file is less than the current CAPVERSION, then Shorewall will issue the following message: WARNING: is out of date -- it does not contain all of the capabilities defined by Shorewall version where is the name of the capabilities file. is the current Shorewall version. Existing capabilities files contain no CAPVERSION. When such a file is read, Shorewall will issue this message: WARNING: may be not contain all of the capabilities defined by Shorewall version 2) When a directory is specified in a command such as 'start' or 'compile', Shorewall now reads the shorewall.conf file (if any) in that directory before deciding which compiler to use. So if SHOREWALL_COMPILER is not specified in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and the -C option was not specified on the run-line, then if both Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl are installed, the additional shorewall.conf file is read to see if it specifies a SHOREWALL_COMPILER. 3) Shorewall-perl validates protocol names and service names against /etc/protocols and /etc/services. That's the good news. The bad news is that this extra validation has a fixed overhead of almost .8 seconds on my x86_64 box. This fixed cost is mostly attributable to the cost of reading and digesting /etc/services. To give people the choice of whether they want to incur this fixed cost on each compilation, I've added a VALIDATE_PORTS option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. If you set this to 'No', you can save the extra processing time but the compiled script may fail at runtime because of typing errors. Migration Considerations: 1) You cannot simply upgrade your existing Shorewall package. You must upgrade Shorewall *and* install one or both of the compilers. If you attempt to upgrade using the RPM, you get this result: gateway:~ # rpm -Uvh shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm error: Failed dependencies: shorewall_compiler is needed by shorewall-4.0.0-1.noarch gateway:~ # You must either: rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm or rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm or rpm -i shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm or rpm -i shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm If you are upgrading using the tarball, you must install either shorewall-shell or shorewall-perl before you upgrade Shorewall. Otherwise, the install.sh script fails with: ERROR: No Shorewall compiler is installed The shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl packages are installed from the tarball in the expected way; untar the package, and run the install.sh script. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- N E W F E A T U R E S ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Shorewall-perl This companion product to Shorewall 3.4.2 and later includes a complete rewrite of the compiler in Perl. I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate product for several reasons: a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint. b) Because of the gross incompatibilities between the new compiler and the old (see below), migration to the new compiler must be voluntary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T H E G O O D N E W S: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a) The compiler has a small disk footprint. b) The compiler is very fast. c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore; so the script is very fast. d) Use of the perl compiler is optional! The old slow clunky Bourne-shell compiler is still available. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ T H E B A D N E W S: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are a number of incompatibilities between the Perl-based compiler and the Bourne-shell one. Some of these will probably go away by first official release but most will not. a) The Perl-based compiler requires the following capabilities in your kernel and iptables. - addrtype match (may be relaxed later) - multiport match (will not be relaxed) These capabilities are in current distributions. b) Now that Netfilter has features to deal reasonably with port lists, I see no reason to duplicate those features in Shorewall. The Bourne-shell compiler goes to great pain (in some cases) to break very long port lists ( > 15 where port ranges in lists count as two ports) into individual rules. In the new compiler, I'm avoiding the ugliness required to do that. The new compiler just generates an error if your list is too long. It will also produce an error if you insert a port range into a port list and you don't have extended multiport support. c) The old BRIDGING=Yes support has been replaced by new bridge support that uses the reduced 'physdev match' capabilities found in kernel 2.6.20 and later. This new implementation may be used where it is desired to control traffic through a bridge. The new implementation includes the following features: a) A new "Bridge Port" zone type is defined. Specify 'bport' or 'bport4' in the TYPE column of /etc/shorewall/zones. Bridge Port zones should be a sub-zone of a regular ipv4 zone that represents all hosts attached to the bridge. b) A new 'bridge' option is defined for entries in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. Bridges should have this option specified. c) Bridge ports must now be defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. The INTERFACE column contains both the bridge name and the port name separated by a colon (e.g., "br0:eth1"). No OPTIONS are allowed for bridge ports. The bridge must be defined before its ports and must have the 'bridge' option. Bridge Port (BP) zones have a number of limitations: a) Each BP zone may only be associated with ports on a single bridge. b) BP zones may not be associated with interfaces that are not bridge ports. c) You may not have policies or rules where the DEST is a BP zone but the source is not a BP zone. If you need such rules, you must use the BP zone's parent zone as the DEST. Example (Bridge br0 with ports eth1 and tap0): /etc/shorewall/zones: fw firewall net ipv4 loc ipv4 lan:loc bport vpn:loc bport /etc/shorewall/interfaces: net eth0 - ... loc br0 - ... lan eth1 vpn tap0 When using the /etc/shorewall/hosts file to define a bport4 zone, you specify only the port name: Example: /etc/shorewall/zones: fw firewall net ipv4 loc ipv4 lan:loc bport vpn:loc bport /etc/shorewall/hosts lan eth1:192.168.2.0/24 ... d) The BROADCAST column in the interfaces file is essentially unused; if you enter anything in this column but '-' or 'detect', you will receive a warning. This will be relaxed if and when the addrtype match requirement is relaxed. e) Because the compiler is now written in Perl, your compile-time extension scripts from earlier versions will no longer work. Compile-time extension scripts are executed using the Perl 'eval `cat `' mechanism. Be sure that each script returns a 'true' value; otherwise, the compiler will assume that the script failed and will abort the compilation. All scripts will need to begin with the following line: use Shorewall::Chains; For more complex scripts, you may need to 'use' other Shorewall Perl modules -- browse /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/ to see what's available. When a script is invoked, the $chainref scalar variable will hold a reference to a chain table entry. $chainref->{name} contains the name of the chain $chainref->{table} holds the table name To add a rule to the chain: add_rule( $chainref, ); Where is a scalar argument holding the rule text. Do not include "-A " Example: add_rule( $chainref, '-j ACCEPT' ); To insert a rule into the chain: insert_rule( $chainref, , ); The log_rule_limit function works like it does in the shell compiler with two exceptions: - You pass the chain reference rather than the name of the chain. - The commands are 'add' and 'insert' rather than '-A' and '-I'. - There is only a single "pass as-is to iptables" argument (so you must quote that part). Example: log_rule_limit( 'info' , $chainref , $chainref->{name}, 'DROP' , '', #Limit '' , #Log tag 'add', #Command '-p tcp' #Pass as-is ); f) The 'refresh' command now works like 'restart' with the following exceptions: - The refresh command is rejected if Shorewall is not running. - A directory name may not be specified in the refresh command. g) Some run-time scripts have been converted to compile time scripts: initdone maclog Note that in the 'initdone' script, there is no default chain ($chainref). You can objtain a reference to a standard chain by: my $chainref = $chain_table{}{}; Example: my $chainref = $chain_table{'filter'}{'INPUT'}; Some run-time scripts are simply eliminated because they no longer make any sense under Shorewall-perl: continue - This script was designed to allow you to add special rules during [re]start. Shorewall-perl doesn't need such rules. refresh - The 'refresh' command is the same as 'restart' refreshed h) The /etc/shorewall/tos file now has zone-independent SOURCE and DEST columns as do all other files except the rules and policy files. The SOURCE column may be one of the following: [all:]
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[,...]] This is a permanent change. The old zone-based rules have never worked right and this is a good time to replace them. I've tried to make the new syntax cover the most common cases without requiring change to existing files. In particular, it will handle the tos file released with Shorewall 1.4 and earlier. i) Shorewall is now out of the ipset load/reload business. With scripts generated by the Perl-based Compiler, the Netfilter ruleset is never cleared. That means that there is no opportunity for Shorewall to load/reload your ipsets since that cannot be done while there are any current rules using ipsets. So: i) Your ipsets must be loaded before Shorewall starts. You are free to try to do that with the following code in /etc/shorewall/start: if [ "$COMMAND" = start ]; then ipset -U :all: :all: ipset -F ipset -X ipset -R < /my/ipset/contents fi The file '/my/ipset/contents' (not its real name of course) will normally be produced using the ipset -S command. The above will work most of the time but will fail in a 'shorewall stop' - 'shorewall start' sequence if you use ipsets in your routestopped file (see below). ii) Your ipsets may not be reloaded until Shorewall is stopped or cleared. iii) If you specify ipsets in your routestopped file then Shorewall must be cleared in order to reload your ipsets. As a consequence, scripts generated by the Perl-based compiler will ignore /etc/shorewall/ipsets and will issue a warning if you set SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf. j) Because the configuration files (with the exception of /etc/shorewall/params) are now processed by the Perl-based compiler rather than by the shell, only the basic forms of Shell expansion ($variable and ${variable}) are supported. The more exotic forms such as ${variable:=default} are not supported. Both variables defined in /etc/shorewall/params and environmental variables (exported by the shell) can be used in configuration files. h) USE_ACTIONS=No is not supported. That option is intended to minimize Shorewall's footprint in embedded applications. As a consequence, Default Macros are not supported. i) DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD=Yes is not supported. The entire ruleset is atomically loaded with one execution of iptables-restore. j) MAPOLDACTIONS=Yes is not supported. People should have converted to using macros by now. k) The pre Shorewall-3.0 format of the zones file is not supported; neither is the /etc/shorewall/ipsec file. l) BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No is not permitted with FASTACCEPT=Yes. This combination doesn't work in previous versions of Shorewall so the Perl-based compiler simply rejects it. m) Shorewall-perl has a single rule generator that is used for all rule-oriented files. So it is important that the syntax is consistent between files. With shorewall-shell, there is a special syntax in the SOURCE column of /etc/shorewall/masq to designate "all traffic entering the firewall on this interface except...". Example: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESSES eth0 eth1!192.168.4.9 ... Shorewall-perl uses syntax that is consistent with the rest of Shorewall: #INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESSES eth0 eth1:!192.168.4.9 ... n) The 'allowoutUPnP' built-in action is no longer supported. The Netfilter team have removed support for '-m owner --owner-cmd' which that action depended on. o) The treatment of the following interface options has changed under Shorewall-perl. - arp_filter - routefilter - logmartians - proxy_arp - sourceroute With the Shorewall-shell compiler, Shorewall resets these options on all interfaces then sets the option on those interfaces for which the option is defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces. Under Shorewall-perl, these options can be specified with the value 0 or 1 (e.g., proxy_arp=0). If no value is specified, the value 1 is assumed. Shorewall will modify only the setting of those interfaces for which the option is specified and will set the option to the given value. A fatal compilation error is also generated if you specify one of these options with a wildcard interface (one ending with '+'). p) The LOG_MARTIANS and ROUTE_FILTER options are now tri-valued in Shorewall-perl. Yes - Same as before No - Same as before except that it applies regardless of whether any interfaces have the logmartians/routefilter option Keep - Shorewall ignores the option entirely. 2) An 'optional' option has been added to /etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option is recognized by Shorewall-perl but not by Shorewall-shell. When 'optional' is specified for an interface, Shorewall will be silent when: - a /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ entry for the interface cannot be modified (including for proxy ARP). - The first address of the interface cannot be obtained. I specify 'optional' on interfaces to Xen virtual machines that may or may not be running when Shorewall is [re]started. CAUTION: Use 'optional' at your own risk. If you [re]start Shorewall when an 'optional' interface is not available and then do a 'shorewall save', subsequent 'shorewall restore' and 'shorewall -f start' operations will instantiate a ruleset that does not support that interface, even if it is available at the time of the restore/start. 3) Thanks to Paul Gear, an IPPServer macro has been added. Be sure to read the comments in the macro file before trying to use this macro. 4) Eariler generations of Shorewall Lite required that remote root login via ssh be enabled in order to use the 'load' and 'reload' commands. Beginning with this release, you may define an alternative means for accessing the remote firewall system. Two new options have been added to shorewall.conf: RSH_COMMAND RCP_COMMAND The default values for these are as follows: RSH_COMMAND: ssh ${root}@${system} ${command} RCP_COMMAND: scp ${files} ${root}@${system}:${destination} Shell variables that will be set when the commands are envoked are as follows: root - root user. Normally 'root' but may be overridden using the '-r' option. system - The name/IP address of the remote firewall system. command - For RSH_COMMAND, the command to be executed on the firewall system. files - For RCP_COMMAND, a space-separated list of files to be copied to the remote firewall system. destination - The directory on the remote system that the files are to be copied into. 5) The accounting, masq, rules and tos files now have a 'MARK' column similar to the column of the same name in the tcrules file. This column allows filtering by MARK and CONNMARK value (CONNMARK is only accepted under Shorewall Perl). 6) SOURCE and DEST are now reserved zone names to avoid problems with bi-directional macro definitions which use these as names as key words. 7) Shorewall-perl validates all IP addresses and addresses ranges in rules. DNS names are resolved and an error is issued for any name that cannot be resolved. 8) Shorewall-perl checks configuration files for the presense of characters that can cause problems if they are allowed into the generated firewall script: - Double Quotes. These are prohibited except in the shorewall.conf and params files. - Single Quotes. These are prohibited except in the shorewall.conf and params files and in COMMENT lines. - Single back quotes. These are prohibited except in the shorewall.conf and params files. - Backslash. Probibited except as the last character on a line to denote line continuation. 9) Under Shorewall-perl, macros may invoke other macros with the restriction that such macros may not be invoked within an action body. When marcros are invoked recursively, the parameter passed to an invocation are automatically propagated to lower level macros. Macro invocations may be nested to a maximum level of 5. 12) The "shorewall show zones" command now flags zone members that have been added using "shorewall add" by preceding them with a plus sign ("+"). Example: Shorewall 3.9.4 Zones at gateway - Mon May 14 07:48:16 PDT 2007 fw (firewall) net (ipv4) eth0:0.0.0.0/0 loc (ipv4) br0:0.0.0.0/0 eth4:0.0.0.0/0 eth5:0.0.0.0/0 +eth1:0.0.0.0/0 dmz (ipv4) eth3:0.0.0.0/0 vpn (ipv4) tun+:0.0.0.0/0 In the above output, "eth1:0.0.0.0/0" was dynamically added to the 'loc' zone. As part of this change, "shorewall delete" will only delete entries that have been added dynamically. In earlier versions, any entry could be deleted although the ruleset was only changed by deleting entries that had been added dynamically. 13) The 'shorewall version' command now lists the version of the installed compiler(s): gateway:/bulk/backup # shorewall version 4.0.0-Beta1 Shorewall-shell 4.0.0-Beta1 Shorewall-perl 4.0.0-Beta1 gateway:/bulk/backup # 14) The Perl compiler is externalized. Both the compiler.pl program and the Perl Module interface are documented. The compiler program is /usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl: compiler.pl [