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<h1 align="center"><font color="#ffffff">Shorewall Errata/Upgrade Issues</font></h1>
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<p align="center"> <b><u>IMPORTANT</u></b></p>
<ol>
<li>
<p align="left"> <b><u>I</u>f you use a Windows system to download
a corrected script, be sure to run the script through
<u> <a
href="http://www.megaloman.com/%7Ehany/software/hd2u/"
style="text-decoration: none;"> dos2unix</a></u> after you have moved
it to your Linux system.</b></p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left"> <b>If you are installing Shorewall for the
first time and plan to use the .tgz and install.sh script, you can
untar the archive, replace the 'firewall' script in the untarred directory
with the one you downloaded below, and then run install.sh.</b></p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left"> <b>When the instructions say to install a corrected
firewall script in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall, you
may rename the existing file before copying in the new file.</b></p>
</li>
<li>
<p align="left"><b><font color="#ff0000">DO NOT INSTALL CORRECTED COMPONENTS
ON A RELEASE EARLIER THAN THE ONE THAT THEY ARE LISTED UNDER BELOW.
For example, do NOT install the 1.3.9a firewall script if you are
running 1.3.7c.</font></b><br>
</p>
</li>
</ol>
<ul>
<li><b><a href="upgrade_issues.htm">Upgrade
Issues</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="#V1.4">Problems in Version 1.4</a></b><br>
</li>
<li> <b><a
href="errata_3.html">Problems in Version 1.3</a></b></li>
<li> <b><a
href="errata_2.htm">Problems in Version 1.2</a></b></li>
<li> <b><font
color="#660066"> <a href="errata_1.htm">Problems in Version 1.1</a></font></b></li>
<li> <b><font
color="#660066"><a href="#iptables"> Problem with iptables version 1.2.3
on RH7.2</a></font></b></li>
<li> <b><a
href="#Debug">Problems with kernels >= 2.4.18 and
RedHat iptables</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="#SuSE">Problems installing/upgrading
RPM on SuSE</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="#Multiport">Problems
with iptables version 1.2.7 and MULTIPORT=Yes</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="#NAT">Problems with RH Kernel
2.4.18-10 and NAT</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="#REJECT">Problems with RH Kernels after 2.4.20-9 and
REJECT (also applies to 2.4.21-RC1) <img src="images/new10.gif"
alt="(New)" width="28" height="12" border="0">
</a><br>
</b></li>
</ul>
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<h2 align="left"><a name="V1.4"></a>Problems in Version 1.4</h2>
<h3></h3>
<h3>1.4.4b</h3>
<ul>
<li>Shorewall is ignoring records in /etc/shorewall/routestopped that
have an empty second column (HOSTS). This problem may be corrected by installing
<a
href="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.4b/firewall"
target="_top">this firewall script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall
as described above.</li>
<li>The INCLUDE directive doesn't work when placed in the /etc/shorewall/zones
file. This problem may be corrected by installing <a
href="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.4b/functions"
target="_top">this functions script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/functions.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.4-1.4.4a</h3>
<ul>
<li>Log messages are being displayed on the system console even though
the log level for the console is set properly according to <a
href="FAQ.htm#faq16">FAQ 16</a>. This problem may be corrected by installing
<a
href="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.4a/firewall"
target="_top">this firewall script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall
as described above.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.4<br>
</h3>
<ul>
<li> If you have zone names that are 5 characters long, you may experience
problems starting Shorewall because the --log-prefix in a logging rule is
too long. Upgrade to Version 1.4.4a to fix this problem..</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.3</h3>
<ul>
<li>The LOGMARKER variable introduced in version 1.4.3 was intended
to allow integration of Shorewall with Fireparse (http://www.firewparse.com).
Unfortunately, LOGMARKER only solved part of the integration problem.
I have implimented a new LOGFORMAT variable which will replace LOGMARKER
which has completely solved this problem and is currently in production
with fireparse here at shorewall.net. The updated files may be found at
<a
href="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.3/fireparse/"
target="_top">ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.3/fireparse/</a>.
See the 0README.txt file for details.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.2</h3>
<ul>
<li>When an 'add' or 'delete' command is executed, a temporary
directory created in /tmp is not being removed. This problem may be corrected
by installing <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.2/firewall"
target="_top">this firewall script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall
as described above. <br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.1a, 1.4.1 and 1.4.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>Some TCP requests are rejected in the 'common' chain with
an ICMP port-unreachable response rather than the more appropriate TCP
RST response. This problem is corrected in <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.1a/common.def"
target="_top">this updated common.def file</a> which may be installed in
/etc/shorewall/common.def.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>When a "shorewall check" command is executed, each "rule"
produces the harmless additional message:<br>
<br>
� � �/usr/share/shorewall/firewall: line 2174: [: =: unary operator
expected<br>
<br>
You may correct the problem by installing <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.1/firewall"
target="_top">this corrected script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall
as described above.<br>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>1.4.0</h3>
<ul>
<li>When running under certain shells Shorewall will attempt
to create ECN rules even when /etc/shorewall/ecn is empty. You may either
just remove /etc/shorewall/ecn or you can install <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.4.0/firewall">this
correct script</a> in /usr/share/shorewall/firewall as described above.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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<h2 align="left"><a name="Upgrade"></a>Upgrade Issues</h2>
<p align="left">The upgrade issues have moved to <a
href="upgrade_issues.htm">a separate page</a>.</p>
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<h3 align="left"><a name="iptables"></a><font color="#660066"> Problem with
iptables version 1.2.3</font></h3>
<blockquote>
<p align="left">There are a couple of serious bugs in iptables 1.2.3 that
prevent it from working with Shorewall. Regrettably,
RedHat released this buggy iptables in RedHat 7.2.�</p>
<p align="left"> I have built a <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3-3.i386.rpm">
corrected 1.2.3 rpm which you can download here</a>� and
I have also built an <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.4-1.i386.rpm">
iptables-1.2.4 rpm which you can download here</a>. If you are currently
running RedHat 7.1, you can install either of these RPMs
<b><u>before</u> </b>you upgrade to RedHat 7.2.</p>
<p align="left"><font color="#ff6633"><b>Update 11/9/2001: </b></font>RedHat
has released an iptables-1.2.4 RPM of their own which you
can download from<font color="#ff6633"> <a
href="http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html">http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-144.html</a>.
</font>I have installed this RPM on my firewall and it
works fine.</p>
<p align="left">If you would like to patch iptables 1.2.3 yourself,
the patches are available for download. This <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/loglevel.patch">patch</a>
which corrects a problem with parsing of the --log-level
specification while this <a
href="ftp://ftp.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/iptables-1.2.3/tos.patch">patch</a>
corrects a problem in handling the� TOS target.</p>
<p align="left">To install one of the above patches:</p>
<ul>
<li>cd iptables-1.2.3/extensions</li>
<li>patch -p0 < <i>the-patch-file</i></li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="Debug"></a>Problems with kernels >= 2.4.18
and RedHat iptables</h3>
<blockquote>
<p>Users who use RedHat iptables RPMs and who upgrade to kernel 2.4.18/19
may experience the following:</p>
<blockquote>
<pre># shorewall start<br>Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf ...<br>Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...<br>Starting Shorewall...<br>Loading Modules...<br>Initializing...<br>Determining Zones...<br>Zones: net<br>Validating interfaces file...<br>Validating hosts file...<br>Determining Hosts in Zones...<br>Net Zone: eth0:0.0.0.0/0<br>iptables: libiptc/libip4tc.c:380: do_check: Assertion<br>`h->info.valid_hooks == (1 << 0 | 1 << 3)' failed.<br>Aborted (core dumped)<br>iptables: libiptc/libip4tc.c:380: do_check: Assertion<br>`h->info.valid_hooks == (1 << 0 | 1 << 3)' failed.<br>Aborted (core dumped)<br></pre>
</blockquote>
<p>The RedHat iptables RPM is compiled with debugging enabled but the
user-space debugging code was not updated to reflect recent changes in
the Netfilter 'mangle' table. You can correct the problem by
installing <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm">
this iptables RPM</a>. If you are already running a 1.2.5
version of iptables, you will need to specify the --oldpackage
option to rpm (e.g., "iptables -Uvh --oldpackage iptables-1.2.5-1.i386.rpm").</p>
</blockquote>
<h3><a name="SuSE"></a>Problems installing/upgrading
RPM on SuSE</h3>
<p>If you find that rpm complains about a conflict with kernel <=
2.2 yet you have a 2.4 kernel installed, simply use the
"--nodeps" option to rpm.</p>
<p>Installing: rpm -ivh --nodeps <i><shorewall rpm></i></p>
<p>Upgrading: rpm -Uvh --nodeps <i><shorewall rpm></i></p>
<h3><a name="Multiport"></a><b>Problems with iptables version 1.2.7 and
MULTIPORT=Yes</b></h3>
<p>The iptables 1.2.7 release of iptables has made an incompatible
change to the syntax used to specify multiport match rules;
as a consequence, if you install iptables 1.2.7 you
must be running Shorewall 1.3.7a or later or:</p>
<ul>
<li>set
MULTIPORT=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf;
or </li>
<li>if you
are running Shorewall 1.3.6 you may
install <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/1.3.6/firewall">
this firewall script</a> in /var/lib/shorewall/firewall
as described above.</li>
</ul>
<h3><a name="NAT"></a>Problems with RH Kernel 2.4.18-10 and NAT<br>
</h3>
/etc/shorewall/nat entries of the following form
will result in Shorewall being unable to start:<br>
<br>
<pre>#EXTERNAL������ INTERFACE������ INTERNAL������� ALL INTERFACES��������� LOCAL<br>192.0.2.22��� eth0��� 192.168.9.22�� yes���� yes<br>#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES ABOVE THIS LINE -- DO NOT REMOVE</pre>
Error message is:<br>
<pre>Setting up NAT...<br>iptables: Invalid argument<br>Terminated<br><br></pre>
The solution is to put "no" in the LOCAL column.
Kernel support for LOCAL=yes has never worked properly and 2.4.18-10
has disabled it. The 2.4.19 kernel contains corrected support under
a new kernel configuraiton option; see <a
href="Documentation.htm#NAT">http://www.shorewall.net/Documentation.htm#NAT</a><br>
<br>
<h3><a name="REJECT"></a><b> Problems with RH Kernels after 2.4.20-9 and
REJECT (also applies to 2.4.21-RC1)</b></h3>
Beginning with errata kernel 2.4.20-13.9, "REJECT --reject-with tcp-reset"
is broken. The symptom most commonly seen is that REJECT rules act just
like DROP rules when dealing with TCP. A kernel patch and precompiled modules
to fix this problem are available at <a
href="ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/kernel"
target="_top">ftp://ftp1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/errata/kernel</a>.<br>
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<p><font size="2"> Last updated 6/13/2003 - <a href="support.htm">Tom
Eastep</a></font> </p>
<p><a href="copyright.htm"><font size="2">Copyright</font> � <font
size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a><br>
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