Shorewall 5.0 Manpages
Tom
Eastep
2007-2015
Thomas M. Eastep
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These manpages are for Shorewall 5.0 and later only. They describe
features and options not available on earlier releases. The manpages for
Shorewall 4.4-4.6 are available
here.
Section 5 — Files and Concepts
accounting - Define
IP accounting rules.
actions -
Declare user-defined actions.
arprules
- (Added in Shorewall 4.5.12) Define arpfilter rules.
blrules -
shorewall Blacklist file.
conntrack - Specify
helpers for connections or exempt certain traffic from netfilter
connection tracking.
ecn -
Disabling Explicit Congestion Notification
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.
ipsets -
Describes how to specify set names in Shorewall configuration
files.
maclist -
Define MAC verification.
mangle -
Supersedes tcrules and describes packet/connection marking.
masq -
Define Masquerade/SNAT
modules -
Specify which kernel modules to load.
nat - Define
one-to-one NAT.
nesting -
How to define nested zones.
netmap -
How to map addresses from one net to another.
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.
proxyarp
- Define Proxy ARP.
rtrules -
Define routing rules.
routes -
(Added in Shorewall 4.4.15) Add additional routes to provider routing
tables.
rules -
Specify exceptions to policies, including DNAT and REDIRECT.
secmarks
- Attach an SELinux context to a packet.
tcclasses - Define htb
classes for traffic shaping.
tcdevices - Specify
speed of devices for traffic shaping.
tcfilters - Classify
traffic for shaping; often used with an IFB to shape ingress
traffic.
tcinterfaces -
Specify devices for simplified traffic shaping.
tcpri -
Classify traffic for simplified traffic shaping.
tunnels -
Define VPN connections with endpoints on the firewall.
shorewall.conf - Specify
values for global Shorewall options.
shorewall-lite.conf -
Specify values for global Shorewall Lite options.
vardir -
Redefine the directory where Shorewall keeps its state
information.
vardir-lite -
Redefine the directory where Shorewall Lite keeps its state
information.
zones -
Declare Shorewall zones.
Section 8 — Administrative Commands
shorewall -
/sbin/shorewall command syntax and semantics.
shorewall-init - Companion
package that allows for automatic start/stop of other Shorewall
products based on network events.
shorewall-lite -
/sbin/shorewall-lite command syntax and semantics.