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<articleinfo>
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<title>Actions</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate>2005-05-13</pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2005</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<section>
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<title>What are Shorewall Actions?</title>
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<para>Shorewall actions allow a symbolic name to be associated with a
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series of one or more iptables rules. The symbolic name may appear in the
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ACTION column of an <filename><ulink
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url="Documentation.htm#Rules">/etc/shorewall/rules</ulink></filename> file
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entry in which case, the traffic matching that rules file entry will be
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passed to the series of iptables rules named by the action.</para>
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<para>Actions can be thought of as templates. When an action is invoked in
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an <filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename> entry, it may be qualified by
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a logging specification (log level and optionally a log tag). The presence
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of the log level/tag causes a modified series of rules to be generated in
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which each packet/rule match within the action causes a log message to be
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generated.</para>
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<para>There are three types of Shorewall actions:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Built-in Actions. These actions are known by the Shorewall code
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itself. They are listed in the comments at the top of the file
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<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std</filename>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Standard Actions. These actions are released as part of
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Shorewall. They are listed in the file
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<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std</filename> and are defined
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in the corresponding action.* files in <filename
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class="directory">/usr/share/shorewall</filename>. Each
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<filename>action.*</filename> file has a comment at the beginning of
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the file that describes what the action does. As an example, here is
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the definition of the <firstterm>AllowSMB</firstterm> standard
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action.</para>
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<programlisting>#
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# Shorewall 2.2 /usr/share/shorewall/action.AllowSMB
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#
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# Allow Microsoft SMB traffic. You need to invoke this action in
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# both directions.
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#
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######################################################################################
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#TARGET SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE RATE USER/
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# PORT PORT(S) LIMIT GROUP
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ACCEPT - - udp 135,445
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ACCEPT - - udp 137:139
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ACCEPT - - udp 1024: 137
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ACCEPT - - tcp 135,139,445
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#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE</programlisting>
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<para>If you wish to modify one of the standard actions, do not modify
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the definition in /usr/share/shorewall. Rather, copy the file to
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<filename class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> (or somewhere
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else on your CONFIG_PATH) and modify the copy.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>User-defined Actions. These actions are created by end-users.
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They are listed in the file /etc/shorewall/actions and are defined in
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action.* files in /etc/shorewall/actions or in another directory
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listed in your CONFIG_PATH (defined in <ulink
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url="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>).</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Common Actions</title>
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<para>Shorewall allows the association of a <firstterm>common
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action</firstterm> with policies. A separate common action may be
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associated with ACCEPT, DROP and REJECT policies. Common actions provide a
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way to invoke a set of common rules just before the policy is enforced.
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Common actions accomplish two goals:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Relieve log congestion. Common actions typically include rules
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to silently drop or reject traffic that would otherwise be logged when
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the policy is enforced.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Ensure correct operation. Common actions can also avoid common
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pitfalls like dropping connection requests on port TCP port 113. If
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these connections are dropped (rather than rejected) then you may
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encounter problems connecting to internet services that utilize the
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AUTH protocol of client authentication<footnote>
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<para>AUTH is actually pretty silly on today's internet but it's
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amazing how many servers still employ it.</para>
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</footnote>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>Shorewall provides common actions for the REJECT and DROP policies.
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The common action for REJECT is named <firstterm>Reject</firstterm> and
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the common action for DROP is named <firstterm>Drop</firstterm>. These
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associations are made through two entries in
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/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std:</para>
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<programlisting>Drop:DROP #Common Action for DROP policy
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Reject:REJECT #Common Action for REJECT policy</programlisting>
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<para>These may be overridden by entries in your /etc/shorewall/actions
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file.</para>
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<warning>
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<para>Entries in the DROP and REJECT common actions <emphasis
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role="bold">ARE NOT THE CAUSE OF CONNECTION PROBLEMS</emphasis>.
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Remember — common actions are only invoked immediately before the packet
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is going to be dropped or rejected anyway!!!</para>
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</warning>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Defining your own Actions</title>
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<para>To define a new action:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Add a line to
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<filename><filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename></filename> that
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names your new action. Action names must be valid shell variable names
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((must begin with a letter and be composed of letters, digits and
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underscore characters) as well as valid Netfilter chain names. If you
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intend to log from the action, the name must have a maximum of 11
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characters. It is recommended that the name you select for a new
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action begins with with a capital letter; that way, the name won't
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conflict with a Shorewall-defined chain name.</para>
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<para>Beginning with Shorewall-2.0.0-Beta1, the name of the action may
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be optionally followed by a colon (<quote>:</quote>) and ACCEPT, DROP
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or REJECT. When this is done, the named action will become the
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<emphasis>common action </emphasis>for policies of type ACCEPT, DROP
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or REJECT respectively. The common action is applied immediately
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before the policy is enforced (before any logging is done under that
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policy) and is used mainly to suppress logging of uninteresting
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traffic which would otherwise clog your logs. The same policy name can
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appear in multiple actions; the last such action for each policy name
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is the one which Shorewall will use.</para>
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<para>Shorewall includes pre-defined actions for DROP and REJECT --
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see above.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Once you have defined your new action name (ActionName), then
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copy /usr/share/shorewall/action.template to
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/action.ActionName</filename> (for example, if
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your new action name is <quote>Foo</quote> then copy
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<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/action.template</filename> to
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/action.Foo</filename>).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Now modify the new file to define the new action.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>Columns in the action.template file are as follows:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>TARGET - Must be ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, LOG, CONTINUE, QUEUE or
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<<emphasis>action</emphasis>> where
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<<emphasis>action</emphasis>> is a previously-defined action
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(that is, it must precede the action being defined in this file in
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your <filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename> file). These actions
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have the same meaning as they do in the
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename> file (CONTINUE terminates
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processing of the current action and returns to the point where that
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action was invoked). The TARGET may optionally be followed by a colon
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(<quote>:</quote>) and a syslog log level (e.g, REJECT:info or
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ACCEPT:debugging). This causes the packet to be logged at the
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specified level. You may also specify ULOG (must be in upper case) as
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a log level.This will log to the ULOG target for routing to a separate
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log through use of ulogd (<ulink
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url="http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd">http://www.gnumonks.org/projects/ulogd</ulink>).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>SOURCE - Source hosts to which the rule applies. A
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comma-separated list of subnets and/or hosts. Hosts may be specified
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by IP or MAC address; mac addresses must begin with <quote>~</quote>
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and must use <quote>-</quote> as a separator.</para>
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<para>Alternatively, clients may be specified by interface name. For
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example, eth1 specifies a client that communicates with the firewall
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system through eth1. This may be optionally followed by another colon
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(<quote>:</quote>) and an IP/MAC/subnet address as described above
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(e.g., eth1:192.168.1.5).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>DEST - Location of Server. Same as above with the exception that
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MAC addresses are not allowed.</para>
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<para>Unlike in the SOURCE column, you may specify a range of up to
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256 IP addresses using the syntax <<emphasis>first
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ip</emphasis>>-<<emphasis>last ip</emphasis>>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>PROTO - Protocol - Must be <quote>tcp</quote>,
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<quote>udp</quote>, <quote>icmp</quote>, a number, or
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<quote>all</quote>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>DEST PORT(S) - Destination Ports. A comma-separated list of Port
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names (from <filename>/etc/services</filename>), port numbers or port
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ranges; if the protocol is <quote>icmp</quote>, this column is
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interpreted as the destination icmp-type(s).</para>
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<para>A port range is expressed as <<emphasis>low
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port</emphasis>>:<<emphasis>high port</emphasis>>.</para>
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<para>This column is ignored if PROTOCOL = all but must be entered if
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any of the following ields are supplied. In that case, it is suggested
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that this field contain <quote>-</quote>.</para>
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<para>If your kernel contains multi-port match support, then only a
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single Netfilter rule will be generated if in this list and in the
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CLIENT PORT(S) list below:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>There are 15 or less ports listed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>No port ranges are included.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>Otherwise, a separate rule will be generated for each
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port.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>SOURCE PORT(S) - Port(s) used by the client. If omitted, any
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source port is acceptable. Specified as a comma-separated list of port
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names, port numbers or port ranges.</para>
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<para>If you don't want to restrict client ports but need to specify
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an ADDRESS in the next column, then place "-" in this column.</para>
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<para>If your kernel contains multi-port match support, then only a
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single Netfilter rule will be generated if in this list and in the
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DEST PORT(S) list above:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>There are 15 or less ports listed.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>No port ranges are included.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>Otherwise, a separate rule will be generated for each
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port.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>RATE LIMIT - You may rate-limit the rule by placing a value in
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this column:</para>
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<para><programlisting> <<emphasis>rate</emphasis>>/<<emphasis>interval</emphasis>>[:<<emphasis>burst</emphasis>>]</programlisting>where
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<<emphasis>rate</emphasis>> is the number of connections per
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<<emphasis>interval</emphasis>> (<quote>sec</quote> or
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<quote>min</quote>) and <<emphasis>burst</emphasis>> is the
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largest burst permitted. If no <<emphasis>burst</emphasis>> is
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given, a value of 5 is assumed. There may be no whitespace embedded in
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the specification.</para>
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<para><programlisting> Example: 10/sec:20</programlisting></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>USER/GROUP - For output rules (those with the firewall as their
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source), you may control connections based on the effective UID and/or
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GID of the process requesting the connection. This column can contain
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any of the following:</para>
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<simplelist>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user number</emphasis>>[:]</member>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user name</emphasis>>[:]</member>
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<member>[!]:<<emphasis>group number</emphasis>></member>
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<member>[!]:<<emphasis>group name</emphasis>></member>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user
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number</emphasis>>:<<emphasis>group
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number</emphasis>></member>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user
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name</emphasis>>:<<emphasis>group
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number</emphasis>></member>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user
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inumber</emphasis>>:<<emphasis>group
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name</emphasis>></member>
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<member>[!]<<emphasis>user
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name</emphasis>>:<<emphasis>group name</emphasis>></member>
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</simplelist>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Omitted column entries should be entered using a dash ("-:).</para>
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<para>Example:</para>
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<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/actions</filename>:</para>
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<para><programlisting> LogAndAccept</programlisting><phrase><filename>/etc/shorewall/action.LogAndAccept</filename></phrase><programlisting> LOG:info
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ACCEPT</programlisting></para>
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<para>To use your action, in <filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename> you
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might do something like:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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LogAndAccept loc fw tcp 22</programlisting>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>Actions and Logging</title>
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<para>Prior to Shorewall 2.1.2, specifying a log level (and optionally a
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log tag) on a rule that specified a user-defined (or Shorewall-defined)
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action would log all traffic passed to the action. Beginning with
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Shorewall 2.1.2, specifying a log level in a rule that specifies a user-
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or Shorewall-defined action will cause each rule in the action to be
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logged with the specified level (and tag).</para>
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<para>The extent to which logging of action rules occur is goverend by the
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following:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>When you invoke an action and specify a log level, only those
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rules in the action that have no log level will be changed to log at
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the level specified at the action invocation.</para>
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<para>Example:</para>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/action.foo</para>
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<programlisting>#TARGET SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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ACCEPT - - tcp 22
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bar:info</programlisting>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/rules:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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foo:debug fw net</programlisting>
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<para>Logging in the invoke 'foo' action will be as if foo had been
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defined as:</para>
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<programlisting>#TARGET SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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ACCEPT:debug - - tcp 22
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bar:info</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you follow the log level with "!" then logging will be at
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that level for all rules recursively invoked by the action.</para>
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<para>Example:</para>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/action.foo</para>
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<programlisting>#TARGET SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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ACCEPT - - tcp 22
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bar:info</programlisting>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/rules:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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foo:debug! fw net</programlisting>
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<para>Logging in the invoke 'foo' action will be as if foo had been
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defined as:</para>
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<programlisting>#TARGET SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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ACCEPT:debug - - tcp 22
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bar:debug</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>The change in Shorewall 2.1.2 has an effect on extension scripts
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used with user-defined actions. If you define an action 'acton' and you
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have an <filename>/etc/shorewall/acton</filename> script then when that
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script is invoked, the following three variables will be set for use by
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the script:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>$CHAIN = the name of the chain where your rules are to be
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placed. When logging is used on an action invocation, Shorewall
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creates a chain with a slightly different name from the action
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itself.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>$LEVEL = Log level. If empty, no logging was specified.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>$TAG = Log Tag.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Example:</para>
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<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST
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acton:info:test fw net</programlisting>
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<para>Your /etc/shorewall/acton file will be run with:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>$CHAIN="%acton1"</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>$LEVEL="info"</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>$TAG="test"</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>For an example of how to use these variables, see <ulink
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url="PortKnocking.html">this article</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="Extension">
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<title>Creating an Action using an Extension Script</title>
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<para>There may be cases where you wish to create a chain with rules that
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can't be constructed using the tools defined in the action.template. In
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that case, you can use an extension script.<note>
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<para>If you actually need an action to drop broadcast packets, use
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the <command>dropBcast</command> standard action rather than create
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one like this.</para>
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</note></para>
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<example>
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<title>An action to drop all broadcast packets</title>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/actions<programlisting>DropBcasts</programlisting></para>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/action.DropBcasts<programlisting># This file is empty</programlisting></para>
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<para>/etc/shorewall/DropBcasts<programlisting>run_iptables -A DropBcasts -m pkttype --pkttype broadcast -j DROP</programlisting></para>
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</example>
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<para>For a richer example, see <ulink url="PortKnocking.html">this
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article</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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</article> |