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<title>DHCP</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2001</year>
<year>2002</year>
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify 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>
<note>
<para>For most operations, DHCP software interfaces to the Linux IP stack
at a level below Netfilter. Hence, Netfilter (and therefore Shorewall)
cannot be used effectively to police DHCP. The <quote>dhcp</quote>
interface option described in this article allows for Netfilter to stay
out of DHCP's way for those operations that can be controlled by Netfilter
and prevents unwanted logging of DHCP-related traffic by
Shorewall-generated Netfilter logging rules.</para>
</note>
<section>
<title>If you want to Run a DHCP Server on your firewall</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the <quote>dhcp</quote> option on each interface to be
served by your server in the <filename><ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink></filename>
file. This will generate rules that will allow DHCP to and from your
firewall system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>When starting <quote>dhcpd</quote>, you need to list those
interfaces on the run line. On a RedHat system, this is done by
modifying <filename>/etc/sysconfig/dhcpd</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you set 'ping-check' true in your
<filename>/etc/shorewall/dhcpd.conf</filename> file then you will want
to <ulink url="ping.htm">accept 'ping'</ulink> from your firewall to
the zone(s) served by the firewall's DHCP server.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>If a Firewall Interface gets its IP Address via DHCP</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the <quote>dhcp</quote> option for this interface in the
<ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></ulink>
file.&nbsp;This will generate rules that will allow DHCP to and from
your firewall system.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you know that the dynamic address is always going to be in
the same subnet, you can specify the subnet address in the interface's
entry in the <ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></ulink>
file.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If you don't know the subnet address in advance, you should
specify <quote>detect</quote> for the interface's subnet address in
the <ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></ulink>
file and start Shorewall after the interface has started.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>In the event that the subnet address might change while
Shorewall is started, you need to arrange for a <quote>shorewall
refresh</quote> command to be executed when a new dynamic IP address
gets assigned to the interface. Check your DHCP client's
documentation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>It is a good idea to <ulink url="ping.htm">accept 'ping'</ulink>
on any interface that gets it's IP address via DHCP. That way, if the
DHCP server is configured with 'ping-check' true, you won't be
blocking its 'ping' requests.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>If you wish to pass DHCP requests and responses through a
bridge</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the <quote>dhcp</quote> option for the bridge interface
in the <ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename></ulink>
file.&nbsp;This will generate rules that will allow DHCP to and from
your firewall system as well as through the bridge.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Running dhcrelay on the firewall</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Specify the "dhcp" option (in <filename><ulink
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink></filename>)
on the interface facing the DHCP server and on the interfaces to be
relayed.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If the server is configured with 'ping-check' true, then you
must <ulink url="ping.htm">allow 'ping'</ulink> from the server's zone
to the zone(s) served by dhcrelay.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</article>