shorewall_code/Shorewall2/releasenotes.txt
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Shorewall 2.0.0-RC2
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Problems Corrected since 1.4.10
1) A blank USER/GROUP column in /etc/shorewall/tcrules no longer causes
a [re]start error.
2) The 'fgrep' utility is no longer required (caused startup problems
on LEAF/Bering).
3) The "shorewall add" command no longer inserts rules before checking
of the blacklist.
4) The 'detectnets' and 'routeback' options may now be used together
with the intended effect.
5) The following syntax previously produced an error:
DNAT z1!z2,z3 z4...
Problems Corrected since RC1
1) After a "shorewall stop", traffic routed back to networks in
the /etc/shorewall/routestopped file is accepted. This is required
to allow traffic through a bridge while shorewall is stopped.
2) The /usr/share/shorewall/help file has been corrected.
3) fw->fw policy removed from /etc/shorewall/policy.
4) If IPV6_DISABLE=Yes, a clearer diagnostic message is issued if
ip6tables is not installed.
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Issues when migrating from Shorewall 1.4.x to Shorewall 2.0.0:
1) The 'dropunclean' and 'logunclean' interface options are no longer
supported. If either option is specified in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces, an threatening message will be
generated.
2) The NAT_BEFORE_RULES option has been removed from
shorewall.conf. The behavior of Shorewall is as if
NAT_BEFORE_RULES=No had been specified. In other words, DNAT rules
now always take precidence over one-to-one NAT specifications.
3) The default value for the ALL INTERFACES column in
/etc/shorewall/nat has changed. In Shorewall 1.*, if the column was
left empty, a value of "Yes" was assumed. This has been changed so
that a value of "No" is now assumed.
4) The following files don't exist in Shorewall 2.0:
/etc/shorewall/common.def
/etc/shorewall/common
/etc/shorewall/icmpdef
/etc/shorewall/action.template (Moved to /usr/share/shorewall)
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918 (Moved to /usr/share/shorewall).
The /etc/shorewall/action file now allows an action to be
designated as the "common" action for a particular policy type by
following the action name with ":" and the policy (DROP, REJECT or
ACCEPT).
The file /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std has been added to define those
actions that are released as part of Shorewall. In that file are
two actions as follows:
Drop:DROP
Reject:REJECT
The "Drop" action is the common action for DROP policies while the
"Reject" action is the default action for "REJECT" policies. These
actions will be performed on packets prior to applying the DROP or
REJECT policy respectively. In the first release, the difference
between "Reject" and "Drop" is that "Reject" REJECTs SMB traffic
while "Drop" silently drops such traffic.
As described above, Shorewall allows a common action for ACCEPT
policies but does not specify such an action in the default
configuration.
If for some reason, you don't wish to have a common DROP or REJECT
action, just include :DROP or :REJECT respectively in your
/etc/shorewall/actions file.
The file /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std catalogs the standard
actions and is processed prior to /etc/shorewall/actions. This
causes a large number of actions to be defined. The files which
define these aactions are also located in /usr/share/shorewall as
is the he action template file (action.template).
In the initial release, the following actions are defined:
dropBcast #Silently Drops Broadcast Traffic
dropNonSyn #Silently Drop Non-syn TCP packets
DropSMB #Silently Drops Microsoft SMB Traffic
RejectSMB #Silently Reject Microsoft SMB Traffic
DropUPnP #Silently Drop UPnP Probes
RejectAuth #Silently Reject Auth
DropPing #Silently Drop Ping
DropDNSrep #Silently Drop DNS Replies
AllowPing #Accept Ping
AllowFTP #Accept FTP
AllowDNS #Accept DNS
AllowSSH #Accept SSH
AllowWeb #Allow Web Browsing
AllowSMB #Allow MS Networking
AllowAuth #Allow Auth (identd)
AllowSMTP #Allow SMTP (Email)
AllowPOP3 #Allow reading mail via POP3
AllowIMAP #Allow reading mail via IMAP
AllowTelnet #Allow Telnet Access (not recommended for use over the
#Internet)
AllowVNC #Allow VNC, Displays 0-9
AllowVNCL #Allow access to VNC viewer in listen mode
AllowNTP #Allow Network Time Protocol (ntpd)
AllowRdate #Allow remote time (rdate).
AllowNNTP #Allow network news (Usenet).
AllowTrcrt #Allows Traceroute (20 hops)
AllowSNMP #Allows SNMP (including traps)
AllowPCA #Allows PCAnywhere (tm).
Drop:DROP #Common rules for DROP policy
Reject:REJECT #Common Action for Reject policy
if you want to redefine any of the Shorewall-defined actions,
simply copy the appropriate action file from /usr/share/shorewall
to /etc/shorewall and modify the copy as desired. Your modified
copy will be used rather than the original one in
/usr/share/shorewall.
Note: The 'dropBcast' and 'dropNonSyn' actions are built into
Shorewall and may not be changed.
Beginning with version 2.0.0-Beta2, Shorewall will only create a
chain for those actions that are actually used.
5) The /etc/shorewall directory no longer contains a 'users' file or a
'usersets' file. Similar functionality is now available using
user-defined actions.
Now, action files created by copying
/usr/share/shorewall/action.template may now specify a USER and or
GROUP name/id in the final column just like in the rules file (see
below). It is thus possible to create actions that control traffic
from a list of users and/or groups.
The last column in /etc/shorewall/rules is now labeled USER/GROUP
and may contain:
[!]<user number>[:]
[!]<user name>[:]
[!]:<group number>
[!]:<group name>
[!]<user number>:<group number>
[!]<user number>:<group name>
[!]<user name>:<group number>
[!]<user name>:<group name>
6) It is no longer possible to specify rate limiting in the ACTION
column of /etc/shorewall/rules -- you must use the RATE LIMIT
column.
7) Depending on which method you use to upgrade, if you have your own
version of /etc/shorewall/rfc1918, you may have to take special
action to restore it after the upgrade. Look for
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918*, locate the proper file and rename it back
to /etc/shorewall/rfc1918. The contents of that file will supercede
the contents of /usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918.
New Features:
1) The INCLUDE directive now allows absolute file names.
2) A 'nosmurfs' interface option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. When specified for an interface, this
option causes smurfs (packets with a broadcast address as their
source) to be dropped and optionally logged (based on the setting of
a new SMURF_LOG_LEVEL option in shorewall.conf).
3) fw->fw traffic may now be controlled by Shorewall. There is no need
to define the loopback interface in /etc/shorewall/interfaces; you
simply add a fw->fw policy and fw->fw rules. If you have neither a
fw->fw policy nor fw->fw rules, all fw->fw traffic is allowed.
4) There is a new PERSISTENT column in the proxyarp file. A value of
"Yes" in this column means that the route added by Shorewall for
this host will remain after a "shorewall stop" or "shorewall clear".
5) "trace" is now a synonym for "debug" in /sbin/shorewall commands.
So to trace the "start" command, you could enter:
shorewall trace start 2> /tmp/trace
The trace information would be written to the file /tmp/trace.
6) When defining an ipsec tunnel in /etc/shorewall/tunnels, if you
follow the tunnel type ("ipsec" or "ipsecnet") with ":noah"
(e.g., "ipsec:noah"), then Shorewall will only create rules for
ESP (protocol 50) and will not create rules for AH (protocol 51).
7) A new DISABLE_IPV6 option has been added to shorewall.conf. When
this option is set to "Yes", Shorewall will set the policy for the
IPv6 INPUT, OUTPUT and FORWARD chains to DROP during "shorewall
[re]start" and "shorewall stop". Regardless of the setting of this
variable, "shorewall clear" will silently attempt to set these
policies to ACCEPT.
If this option is not set in your existing shorewall.conf then a
setting of DISABLE_IPV6=No is assumed in which case, Shorewall will
not touch any IPv6 settings except during "shorewall clear".
8) The CONTINUE target is now available in action definitions. CONTINUE
terminates processing of the current action and returns to the point
where that action was invoked.