Shorewall 2.0.2-Beta 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Problems Corrected since 2.0.1 1) The /etc/init.d/shorewall script installed on Debian by install.sh failed silently due to a missing file (/usr/share/shorewall/wait4ifup). That file is not part of the normal Shorewall distribution and is provided by the Debian maintainer. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Issues when migrating from Shorewall 2.0.0 to Shorewall 2.0.1: 1) Dynamic Zone support. If you don't need to use the "shorewall add" and "shorewall delete" commands, you should set DYNAMIC_ZONES=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf . New Features: 1) The previous implementation of dynamic zones was difficult to maintain. I have changed the code to make dynamic zones optional under the control of the DYNAMIC_ZONES option in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. 2) In earlier Shorewall 2.0 releases, Shorewall searches in order the following directories for configuration files. a) The directory specified in a 'try' command or specified using the -c option. b) /etc/shorewall c) /usr/share/shorewall In this release, the CONFIG_PATH option is added to shorewall.conf. CONFIG_PATH contains a list of directory names separated by colons (":"). If not set or set to a null value (e.g., CONFIG_PATH="") then "CONFIG_PATH=/etc/shorewall:/usr/share/shorewall" is assumed. Now Shorewall searches for shorewall.conf according to the old rules and for other configuration files as follows: a) The directory specified in a 'try' command or specified using the -c option. b) Each directory in $CONFIG_PATH is searched in sequence. In case it is not obvious, your CONFIG_PATH should include /usr/share/shorewall and your shorewall.conf file must be in the directory specified via -c or in a try command, in /etc/shorewall or in /usr/share/shorewall. For distribution packagers, the default CONFIG_PATH is set in /usr/share/shorewall/configpath. You can customize this file to have a default that differs from mine. 3) Previously, in /etc/shorewall/nat a Yes (or yes) in the LOCAL column would only take effect if the ALL INTERFACES column also contained Yes or yes. Now, the LOCAL columns contents are treated independently of the contents of the ALL INTERFACES column. 4) The folks at Mandrake have created yet another kernel module naming convention. As a consequence, beginning with this release, if MODULE_PREFIX isn't specified in shorewall.conf, then the default value is "o gz ko o.gz ko.gz". 5) An updated bogons file is included in this release. 6) In /etc/shorewall/rules and in action files generated from /usr/share/shorewall/action.template, rules that perform logging can specify an optional "log tag". A log tag is a string of alphanumeric characters and is specified by following the log level with ":" and the log tag. Example: ACCEPT:info:ftp net dmz tcp 21 The log tag is appended to the log prefix generated by the LOGPREFIX variable in /etc/shorewall/conf. If "ACCEPT:info" generates the log prefix "Shorewall:net2dmz:ACCEPT:" then "ACCEPT:info:ftp" will generate "Shorewall:net2dmz:ACCEPT:ftp " (note the trailing blank). The maximum length of a log prefix supported by iptables is 29 characters; if a larger prefix is generated, Shorewall will issue a warning message and will truncate the prefix to 29 characters.