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<articleinfo>
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<title>Shorewall FAQs</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<corpauthor>Shorewall Community</corpauthor>
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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><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2001-2006</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 <quote>
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<ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation License</ulink>
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</quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<caution>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">This article applies to Shorewall 3.0 and
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later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall
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3.0.0 then please see the documentation for that
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release.</emphasis></para>
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</caution>
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<section>
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<title>Installing Shorewall</title>
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<section>
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<title>Where do I find Step by Step Installation and Configuration
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Instructions?</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Check out the <ulink
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url="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart Guides</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="faq37">
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<title>(FAQ 37) I just installed Shorewall on Debian and the
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/etc/shorewall directory is empty!!!</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:</para>
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<important>
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<para>Once you have installed the .deb package and before you attempt
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to configure Shorewall, please heed the advice of Lorenzo Martignoni,
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the Shorewall Debian Maintainer:</para>
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<para><quote>For more information about Shorewall usage on Debian
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system please look at /usr/share/doc/shorewall/README.Debian provided
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by [the] shorewall Debian package.</quote></para>
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</important>
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<para>If you install using the .deb, you will find that your <filename
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class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> directory is empty. This is
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intentional. The released configuration file skeletons may be found on
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your system in the directory <filename
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class="directory">/usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config</filename>.
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Simply copy the files you need from that directory to <filename
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class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> and modify the
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copies.</para>
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<para>Note that you must copy <filename
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class="directory">/usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config/shorewall.conf</filename>
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and <filename>/usr/share/doc/shorewall/default-config/modules</filename>
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to <filename class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> even if you do
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not modify those files.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="faq44">
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<title>(FAQ 44) I can't install/upgrade the RPM — I keep getting the
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message "error: failed dependencies:iproute is needed..."</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Read the <ulink
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url="Install.htm">Installation Instructions</ulink>!</para>
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</section>
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<section id="faq50">
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<title>(FAQ 50) When I install/upgrade I get multiple instance of the
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message "warning: user teastep does not exist - using root"</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> You may safely ignore
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this warning message. It was caused by a minor packaging error that has
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since been corrected. It makes no difference to Shorewall's
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operation.</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section id="PortForwarding">
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<title>Port Forwarding (Port Redirection)</title>
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<section id="faq1">
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<title>(FAQ 1) I want to forward UDP port 7777 to my personal PC with IP
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address 192.168.1.5. I've looked everywhere and can't find how to do
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it.</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> The first example in the
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<ulink url="Documentation.htm#Rules">rules file documentation</ulink>
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shows how to do port forwarding under Shorewall. The format of a
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port-forwarding rule to a local system is as follows:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT
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DNAT net loc:<l<emphasis>ocal IP address</emphasis>>[:<<emphasis>local port</emphasis>>] <<emphasis>protocol</emphasis>> <<emphasis>port #</emphasis>></programlisting>
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<para>So to forward UDP port 7777 to internal system 192.168.1.5, the
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rule is:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT
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DNAT net loc:192.168.1.5 udp 7777</programlisting>
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<para>If you want to forward requests directed to a particular address (
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<emphasis><external IP></emphasis> ) on your firewall to an
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internal system:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT SOURCE ORIGINAL
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# PORT DEST.
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DNAT net loc:<l<emphasis>ocal IP address</emphasis>>[:<<emphasis>local port</emphasis>>] <<emphasis>protocol</emphasis>> <<emphasis>port #</emphasis>> - <<emphasis>external IP</emphasis>></programlisting>
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<para>Finally, if you need to forward a range of ports, in the DEST PORT
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column specify the range as
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<emphasis><low-port>:<high-port></emphasis>.</para>
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<section id="faq1a">
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<title>(FAQ 1a) Ok -- I followed those instructions but it doesn't
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work</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> That is usually the
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result of one of four things:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>You are trying to test from inside your firewall (no, that
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won't work -- see <xref linkend="faq2" />).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>You have a more basic problem with your local system (the
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one that you are trying to forward to) such as an incorrect
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default gateway (it should be set to the IP address of your
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firewall's internal interface).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Your ISP is blocking that particular port inbound.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>You are running Mandriva Linux prior to 10.0 final and have
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configured Internet Connection Sharing. In that case, the name of
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your local zone is 'masq' rather than 'loc' (change all instances
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of 'loc' to 'masq' in your rules). You may want to consider
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re-installing Shorewall in a configuration which matches the
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Shorewall documentation. See the <ulink
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url="two-interface.htm">two-interface QuickStart Guide</ulink> for
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details.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="faq1b">
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<title>(FAQ 1b) I'm still having problems with port forwarding</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> To further diagnose
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this problem:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>As root, type <quote> <command>iptables -t nat -Z</command>
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</quote>. This clears the NetFilter counters in the nat
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table.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Try to connect to the redirected port from an external
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host.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>As root type <quote> <command>shorewall[-lite] show
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nat</command> </quote></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Locate the appropriate DNAT rule. It will be in a chain
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called <emphasis><source zone></emphasis>_dnat
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(<quote>net_dnat</quote> in the above examples).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Is the packet count in the first column non-zero? If so, the
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connection request is reaching the firewall and is being
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redirected to the server. In this case, the problem is usually a
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missing or incorrect default gateway setting on the local system
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(the system you are trying to forward to -- its default gateway
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should be the IP address of the firewall's interface to that
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system).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If the packet count is zero:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>the connection request is not reaching your server
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(possibly it is being blocked by your ISP); or</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>you are trying to connect to a secondary IP address on
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your firewall and your rule is only redirecting the primary IP
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address (You need to specify the secondary IP address in the
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<quote>ORIG. DEST.</quote> column in your DNAT rule);
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or</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>your DNAT rule doesn't match the connection request in
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some other way. In that case, you may have to use a packet
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sniffer such as tcpdump or ethereal to further diagnose the
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problem.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If the packet count is non-zero, check your log to see if
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the connection is being dropped or rejected. If it is, then you
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may have a zone definition problem such that the server is in a
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different zone than what is specified in the DEST column. At a
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root promt, type "<command>shorewall[-lite] show zones</command>"
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then be sure that in the DEST column you have specified the
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<emphasis role="bold">first</emphasis> zone in the list that
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matches OUT=<dev> and DEST= <ip>from the REJECT/DROP
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log message.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</section>
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<section id="faq1c">
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<title>(FAQ 1c) From the internet, I want to connect to port 1022 on
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my firewall and have the firewall forward the connection to port 22 on
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local system 192.168.1.3. How do I do that?</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:In
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/<filename>etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT
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DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3:22 tcp 1022</programlisting>
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</section>
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<section id="faq1d">
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<title>(FAQ 1d) I have a web server in my DMZ and I use port
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forwarding to make that server accessible from the Internet. That
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works fine but when my local users try to connect to the server using
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the Firewall's external IP address, it doesn't work.</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Let's assume the
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following:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>External IP address is 206.124.146.176 on <filename
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class="devicefile">eth0</filename>.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Server's IP address is 192.168.2.4</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>You can enable access to the server from your local network
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using the firewall's external IP address by adding this rule:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S) SOURCE ORIGINAL
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# PORT DEST
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DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - 206.124.146.176</programlisting>
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<para>If your external IP address is dynamic, then you must do the
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following:</para>
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<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting><command>ETH0_IP=`find_interface_address eth0`</command> </programlisting>
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<para>For users of Shorewall 2.1.0 and later:</para>
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<programlisting><command>ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0`</command></programlisting>
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<para>and make your DNAT rule:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT SOURCE ORIGINAL
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# PORT DEST.
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DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - $ETH0_IP</programlisting>
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</section>
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<section id="faq1e">
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<title>(FAQ 1e) In order to discourage brute force attacks I would
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like to redirect all connections on a non-standard port (4104) to port
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22 on the router/firewall. I notice that setting up a REDIRECT rule
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causes the firewall to open both ports 4104 and 22 to connections from
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the net. Is it possible to only redirect 4104 to the localhost port 22
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and have connection attempts to port 22 from the net dropped?</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer </emphasis>courtesy of Ryan: Assume
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that the IP address of your local firewall interface is 192.168.1.1.
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If you configure SSHD to only listen on that interface and add the
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following rule then from the net, you will have 4104 listening, from
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your LAN, port 22.</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
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DNAT net fw:192.168.1.1:22 tcp 4104</programlisting>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section id="faq30">
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<title>(FAQ 30) I'm confused about when to use DNAT rules and when to
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use ACCEPT rules.</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:It would be a good idea to
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review the <ulink url="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart
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Guide</ulink> appropriate for your setup; the guides cover this topic in
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a tutorial fashion. DNAT rules should be used for connections that need
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to go the opposite direction from SNAT/MASQUERADE. So if you masquerade
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or use SNAT from your local network to the internet then you will need
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to use DNAT rules to allow connections from the internet to your local
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network. You also want to use DNAT rules when you intentionally want to
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rewrite the destination IP address or port number. In all other cases,
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you use ACCEPT unless you need to hijack connections as they go through
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your firewall and handle them on the firewall box itself; in that case,
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you use a REDIRECT rule.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>(FAQ 38) Where can I find more information about DNAT?</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:Ian Allen has written a
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<ulink url="http://ian.idallen.ca/dnat.txt">Paper about DNAT and
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Linux</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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<section id="faq48">
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<title>(FAQ 48) How do I Set up Transparent Proxy with
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Shorewall?</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: See <ulink
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url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html</ulink>.</para>
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</section>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>DNS and Port Forwarding/NAT</title>
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<section id="faq2">
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<title>(FAQ 2) I port forward www requests to www.mydomain.com (IP
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130.151.100.69) to system 192.168.1.5 in my local network. External
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clients can browse http://www.mydomain.com but internal clients
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can't.</title>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> I have two objections to
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this setup.</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Having an internet-accessible server in your local network is
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like raising foxes in the corner of your hen house. If the server is
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compromised, there's nothing between that server and your other
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internal systems. For the cost of another NIC and a cross-over
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cable, you can put your server in a DMZ such that it is isolated
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from your local systems - assuming that the Server can be located
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near the Firewall, of course :-)</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The accessibility problem is best solved using <ulink
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url="shorewall_setup_guide.htm#DNS">Bind Version 9
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<quote>views</quote> </ulink> (or using a separate DNS server for
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local clients) such that www.mydomain.com resolves to 130.141.100.69
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externally and 192.168.1.5 internally. That's what I do here at
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shorewall.net for my local systems that use one-to-one NAT.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Assuming that your external interface is eth0 and your internal
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interface is eth1 and that eth1 has IP address 192.168.1.254 with subnet
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192.168.1.0/24, then:<warning>
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<para>All traffic redirected through use of this hack will look to
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the server as if it came from the firewall (192.168.1.254) rather
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than from the original client! So the server's access logs will be
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useless for determining which local hosts are accessing the
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server.</para>
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</warning></para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
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loc eth1 detect <emphasis role="bold">routeback</emphasis> </programlisting>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS PROTO PORT(S)
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eth1:192.168.1.5 eth1 192.168.1.254 tcp www</programlisting>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT SOURCE ORIGINAL
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# PORT DEST.
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DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.5 tcp www - 130.151.100.69</programlisting>
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<para>That rule only works of course if you have a static external
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IP address. If you have a dynamic IP address then include this in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>:</para>
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<programlisting><command>ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0`</command> </programlisting>
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<para>and make your DNAT rule:</para>
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<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT SOURCE ORIGINAL
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# PORT DEST.
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DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.5 tcp www - $ETH0_IP</programlisting>
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<para>Using this technique, you will want to configure your
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DHCP/PPPoE client to automatically restart Shorewall each time that
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you get a new IP address.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<section id="faq2a">
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<title>(FAQ 2a) I have a zone <quote>Z</quote> with an RFC1918 subnet
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and I use one-to-one NAT to assign non-RFC1918 addresses to hosts in
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Z. Hosts in Z cannot communicate with each other using their external
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(non-RFC1918 addresses) so they can't access each other using their
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DNS names.</title>
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<note>
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<para>If the ALL INTERFACES column in /etc/shorewall/nat is empty or
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contains <quote>Yes</quote>, you will also see log messages like the
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following when trying to access a host in Z from another host in Z
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using the destination hosts's public address:</para>
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<programlisting>Oct 4 10:26:40 netgw kernel:
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Shorewall:FORWARD:REJECT:IN=eth1 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.118.200
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DST=192.168.118.210 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=1342 DF
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PROTO=TCP SPT=1494 DPT=1491 WINDOW=17472 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0</programlisting>
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</note>
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|
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> This is another problem
|
|
that is best solved using Bind Version 9 <quote>views</quote>. It
|
|
allows both external and internal clients to access a NATed host using
|
|
the host's DNS name.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Another good way to approach this problem is to switch from
|
|
one-to-one NAT to Proxy ARP. That way, the hosts in Z have non-RFC1918
|
|
addresses and can be accessed externally and internally using the same
|
|
address.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you don't like those solutions and prefer to stupidly route
|
|
all Z->Z traffic through your firewall then:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Set the routeback option on the interface to Z.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Set the ALL INTERFACES column in the nat file to
|
|
<quote>Yes</quote>.</para>
|
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</listitem>
|
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</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title>Example:</title>
|
|
|
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<literallayout>Zone: dmz Interface: eth2 Subnet: 192.168.2.0/24 Address: 192.168.2.254</literallayout>
|
|
|
|
<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
|
|
dmz eth2 192.168.2.255 <emphasis role="bold">routeback</emphasis> </programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/na</filename>t, be sure that you
|
|
have <quote>Yes</quote> in the ALL INTERFACES column.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>In /etc/shorewall/masq:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNETS ADDRESS
|
|
eth2 eth2 192.168.2.254</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Like the idiotic hack in FAQ 2 above, this will make all
|
|
dmz->dmz traffic appear to originate on the firewall.</para>
|
|
</example>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq2b">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 2b) I have a web server in my DMZ and I use port
|
|
forwarding to make that server accessible from the Internet as
|
|
www.mydomain.com. That works fine but when my local users try to
|
|
connect to www.mydomain.com, it doesn't work.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Let's assume the
|
|
following:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>External IP address is 206.124.146.176 on <filename
|
|
class="devicefile">eth0</filename> (www.mydomain.com).</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Server's IP address is 192.168.2.4</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>You can enable access to the server from your local network
|
|
using the firewall's external IP address by adding this rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S) SOURCE ORIGINAL
|
|
# PORT DEST
|
|
DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - 206.124.146.176</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>If your external IP address is dynamic, then you must do the
|
|
following:</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>In <filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting><command>ETH0_IP=`find_first_interface_address eth0`</command> </programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>and make your DNAT rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT SOURCE ORIGINAL
|
|
# PORT DEST.
|
|
DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - $ETH0_IP</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>With dynamic IP addresses, you probably don't want to use
|
|
<ulink
|
|
url="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm"><command>shorewall[-lite]
|
|
save</command> and <command>shorewall[-lite]
|
|
restore</command></ulink>.</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq2c">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 2c) I tried to apply the answer to FAQ 2 to my external
|
|
interface and the net zone and it didn't work. Why?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Did you set <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">IP_FORWARDING=On</emphasis> in
|
|
<filename>shorewall.conf</filename>?</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Netmeeting/MSN</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq3">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 3) I want to use Netmeeting or MSN Instant Messenger with
|
|
Shorewall. What do I do?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> There is an <ulink
|
|
url="http://www.kfki.hu/%7Ekadlec/sw/netfilter/newnat-suite/">H.323
|
|
connection tracking/NAT module</ulink> that helps with Netmeeting. Note
|
|
however that one of the Netfilter developers recently posted the
|
|
following:</para>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<para><programlisting>> I know PoM -ng is going to address this issue, but till it is ready, and
|
|
> all the extras are ported to it, is there any way to use the h.323
|
|
> contrack module kernel patch with a 2.6 kernel?
|
|
> Running 2.6.1 - no 2.4 kernel stuff on the system, so downgrade is not
|
|
> an option... The module is not ported yet to 2.6, sorry.
|
|
> Do I have any options besides a gatekeeper app (does not work in my
|
|
> network) or a proxy (would prefer to avoid them)?
|
|
|
|
I suggest everyone to setup a proxy (gatekeeper) instead: the module is
|
|
really dumb and does not deserve to exist at all. It was an excellent tool
|
|
to debug/develop the newnat interface.</programlisting></para>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
|
|
<para>Look <ulink url="UPnP.html">here</ulink> for a solution for MSN IM
|
|
but be aware that there are significant security risks involved with
|
|
this solution. Also check the Netfilter mailing list archives at <ulink
|
|
url="http://www.netfilter.org">http://www.netfilter.org</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Open Ports</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq51">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 51) How do I Open Ports in Shorewall?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> No one who has installed
|
|
Shorewall using one of the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">Quick Start Guides</ulink> should
|
|
have to ask this question.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Regardless of which guide you used, all outbound communcation is
|
|
open by default. So you do not need to 'open ports' for output.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>For input:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If you installed using the Standalone Guide, then please
|
|
<ulink url="standalone.htm#Open">re-read this
|
|
section</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If you installed using the Two-interface Guide, then please
|
|
re-read these sections: <ulink url="two-interface.htm#DNAT">Port
|
|
Forwarding (DNAT)</ulink>, and <ulink
|
|
url="two-interface.htm#Open">Other Connections</ulink></para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If you installed using the Three-interface Guide, then please
|
|
re-read these sections: <ulink url="three-interface.htm#DNAT">Port
|
|
Forwarding (DNAT)</ulink> and <ulink
|
|
url="three-interface.htm#Open">Other Connections</ulink></para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If you installed using the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_setup_guide.htm">Shorewall Setup Guide</ulink> then
|
|
you had better read the guide again -- you clearly missed a
|
|
lot.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>Also please see the <link linkend="PortForwarding">Port Forwarding
|
|
section of this FAQ</link>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq4">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 4) I just used an online port scanner to check my firewall
|
|
and it shows some ports as <quote>closed</quote> rather than
|
|
<quote>blocked</quote>. Why?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> The default Shorewall
|
|
setup invokes the <emphasis role="bold">Drop</emphasis> action prior to
|
|
enforcing a DROP policy and the default policy to all zone from the
|
|
internet is DROP. The Drop action is defined in
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/action.Drop</filename> which in turn
|
|
invokes the <emphasis role="bold">Auth</emphasis> macro (defined in
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/macro.Auth</filename>) specifying the
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">REJECT</emphasis> action (i.e., <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">Auth/REJECT</emphasis>). This is necessary to prevent
|
|
outgoing connection problems to services that use the
|
|
<quote>Auth</quote> mechanism for identifying requesting users. That is
|
|
the only service which the default setup rejects.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you are seeing closed TCP ports other than 113 (auth) then
|
|
either you have added rules to REJECT those ports or a router outside of
|
|
your firewall is responding to connection requests on those
|
|
ports.</para>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq4a">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 4a) I just ran an nmap UDP scan of my firewall and it
|
|
showed 100s of ports as open!!!!</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Take a deep breath and
|
|
read the nmap man page section about UDP scans. If nmap gets <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">nothing</emphasis> back from your firewall then it reports
|
|
the port as open. If you want to see which UDP ports are really open,
|
|
temporarily change your net->all policy to REJECT, restart
|
|
Shorewall and do the nmap UDP scan again.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq4b">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 4b) I have a port that I can't close no matter how I
|
|
change my rules.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>I had a rule that allowed telnet from my local network to my
|
|
firewall; I removed that rule and restarted Shorewall but my telnet
|
|
session still works!!!</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Rules only govern the
|
|
establishment of new connections. Once a connection is established
|
|
through the firewall it will be usable until disconnected (tcp) or
|
|
until it times out (other protocols). If you stop telnet and try to
|
|
establish a new session your firerwall will block that attempt.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq4c">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 4c) How do I use Shorewall with PortSentry?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><ulink
|
|
url="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/PortsentryHOWTO.txt"><emphasis
|
|
role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Here's a writeup</ulink> describing a
|
|
nice integration of Shorewall and PortSentry.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>(FAQ 4d) How do I use Shorewall with Snort-Inline?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> <ulink
|
|
url="http://www.catherders.com/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=1&postId=71">Here
|
|
is a writeup</ulink> contributed by Michael Cooke.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Connection Problems</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq5">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 5) I've installed Shorewall and now I can't ping through the
|
|
firewall</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> For a complete
|
|
description of Shorewall <quote>ping</quote> management, see <ulink
|
|
url="ping.html">this page</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq15">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 15) My local systems can't see out to the net</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Every time I read
|
|
<quote>systems can't see out to the net</quote>, I wonder where the
|
|
poster bought computers with eyes and what those computers will
|
|
<quote>see</quote> when things are working properly. That aside, the
|
|
most common causes of this problem are:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The default gateway on each local system isn't set to the IP
|
|
address of the local firewall interface.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The entry for the local network in the /etc/shorewall/masq
|
|
file is wrong or missing.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The DNS settings on the local systems are wrong or the user is
|
|
running a DNS server on the firewall and hasn't enabled UDP and TCP
|
|
port 53 from the firewall to the internet.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Forwarding is not enabled (This is often the problem for
|
|
Debian users). Enter this command:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>If the value displayed is 0 (zero) then set <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">IP_FORWARDING=On</emphasis> in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename> and restart
|
|
Shorewall.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq29">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 29) FTP Doesn't Work</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:See the <ulink
|
|
url="FTP.html">Shorewall and FTP page</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq33">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 33) From clients behind the firewall, connections to some
|
|
sites fail. Connections to the same sites from the firewall itself work
|
|
fine. What's wrong.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Most likely, you need to
|
|
set CLAMPMSS=Yes in <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Conf">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq35">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 35) I have two Ethernet interfaces to my local network which
|
|
I have bridged. When Shorewall is started, I'm unable to pass traffic
|
|
through the bridge. I have defined the bridge interface (br0) as the
|
|
local interface in /etc/shorewall/interfaces; the bridged Ethernet
|
|
interfaces are not defined to Shorewall. How do I tell Shorewall to
|
|
allow traffic through the bridge?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Add the
|
|
<firstterm>routeback</firstterm> option to <filename
|
|
class="devicefile">br0</filename> in <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>For more information on this type of configuration, see the <ulink
|
|
url="SimpleBridge.html">Shorewall Simple Bridge
|
|
documentation</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Logging</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq6">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 6) Where are the log messages written and how do I change
|
|
the destination?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> NetFilter uses the
|
|
kernel's equivalent of syslog (see <quote>man syslog</quote>) to log
|
|
messages. It always uses the LOG_KERN (kern) facility (see <quote>man
|
|
openlog</quote>) and you get to choose the log level (again, see
|
|
<quote>man syslog</quote>) in your <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Policy">policies</ulink> and <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Rules">rules</ulink>. The destination for
|
|
messages logged by syslog is controlled by
|
|
<filename>/etc/syslog.conf</filename> (see <quote>man
|
|
syslog.conf</quote>). When you have changed /etc/syslog.conf, be sure to
|
|
restart syslogd (on a RedHat system, <quote>service syslog
|
|
restart</quote>).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>By default, older versions of Shorewall rate-limited log messages
|
|
through <ulink url="Documentation.htm#Conf">settings</ulink> in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename> -- If you want to log
|
|
all messages, set:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>LOGLIMIT=""
|
|
LOGBURST=""</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>It is also possible to <ulink url="shorewall_logging.html">set up
|
|
Shorewall to log all of its messages to a separate file</ulink>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq6a">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 6a) Are there any log parsers that work with
|
|
Shorewall?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Here are several links
|
|
that may be helpful:</para>
|
|
|
|
<literallayout>
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/parsefw/">http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/parsefw/</ulink>
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.fireparse.com">http://www.fireparse.com</ulink>
|
|
<ulink url="http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/fwlogwatch">http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/fwlogwatch</ulink>
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.logwatch.org">http://www.logwatch.org</ulink>
|
|
<ulink url="http://gege.org/iptables">http://gege.org/iptables</ulink>
|
|
<ulink url="http://home.regit.org/ulogd-php.html">http://home.regit.org/ulogd-php.html</ulink>
|
|
</literallayout>
|
|
|
|
<para>I personally use Logwatch. It emails me a report each day from
|
|
my various systems with each report summarizing the logged activity on
|
|
the corresponding system.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq6b">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 6b) DROP messages on port 10619 are flooding the logs with
|
|
their connect requests. Can i exclude these error messages for this
|
|
port temporarily from logging in Shorewall?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:Temporarily add the
|
|
following rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
|
|
DROP net fw udp 10619</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Alternatively, if you do not set BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL and you have
|
|
specifed the 'blacklist' option on your external interface in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>, then you can blacklist
|
|
the port. In <filename>/etc/shorewall/blacklist</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ADDRESS/SUBNET PROTOCOL PORT
|
|
- udp 10619</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq6d">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 6d) Why is the MAC address in Shorewall log messages so
|
|
long? I thought MAC addresses were only 6 bytes in length.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:What is labeled as the
|
|
MAC address in a Netfilter (Shorewall) log message is actually the
|
|
Ethernet frame header. It contains:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the destination MAC address (6 bytes)</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the source MAC address (6 bytes)</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the ethernet frame type (2 bytes)</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para><example>
|
|
<title>Example</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><programlisting>MAC=00:04:4c:dc:e2:28:00:b0:8e:cf:3c:4c:08:00</programlisting>
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Destination MAC address = 00:04:4c:dc:e2:28</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Source MAC address = 00:b0:8e:cf:3c:4c</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Ethernet Frame Type = 08:00 (IP Version 4)</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist></para>
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</example></para>
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</section>
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</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq16">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 16) Shorewall is writing log messages all over my console
|
|
making it unusable!</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis></para>
|
|
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Find where klogd is being started (it will be from one of the
|
|
files in /etc/init.d -- sysklogd, klogd, ...). Modify that file or
|
|
the appropriate configuration file so that klogd is started with
|
|
<quote>-c <emphasis><n></emphasis> </quote> where
|
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<emphasis><n></emphasis> is a log level of 5 or less;
|
|
or</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
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|
<para>See the <quote>dmesg</quote> man page (<quote>man
|
|
dmesg</quote>). You must add a suitable <quote>dmesg</quote> command
|
|
to your startup scripts or place it in /etc/shorewall/start.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
|
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<tip>
|
|
<para>Under RedHat and Mandriva, the max <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_logging.html">log level</ulink> that is sent to the
|
|
console is specified in /etc/sysconfig/init in the LOGLEVEL variable.
|
|
Set <quote>LOGLEVEL=5</quote> to suppress info (log level 6) messages
|
|
on the console.</para>
|
|
</tip>
|
|
|
|
<tip>
|
|
<para>Under Debian, you can set KLOGD=<quote>-c 5</quote> in
|
|
<filename>/etc/init.d/klogd</filename> to suppress info (log level 6)
|
|
messages on the console.</para>
|
|
</tip>
|
|
|
|
<tip>
|
|
<para>Under SUSE, add <quote>-c 5</quote> to KLOGD_PARAMS in
|
|
/etc/sysconfig/syslog to suppress info (log level 6) messages on the
|
|
console.</para>
|
|
</tip>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq17">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 17) Why are these packets being Dropped/Rejected?/How do I
|
|
decode Shorewall log messages?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Logging of
|
|
dropped/rejected packets occurs out of a number of chains (as indicated
|
|
in the log message) in Shorewall:</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>man1918 or logdrop</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The destination address is listed in
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918</filename> with a <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">logdrop</emphasis> target -- see <filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#rfc1918">/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918</ulink>
|
|
</filename>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>rfc1918 or logdrop</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The source or destination address is listed in
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918</filename> with a <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">logdrop</emphasis> target -- see <filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#rfc1918">/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918</ulink>
|
|
</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>If you see packets being dropped in the rfc1918 chain and
|
|
neither the source nor the destination IP address is reserved by
|
|
RFC 1918, that usually means that you have a old
|
|
<filename>rfc1918</filename> file in <filename
|
|
class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> (this problem most
|
|
frequently occurs if you are running Debian or one if its
|
|
derivatives). The <filename>rfc1918</filename> file used to
|
|
include bogons as well as the three ranges reserved by RFC 1918
|
|
and it resided in <filename
|
|
class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename>. The file now only
|
|
includes the three RFC 1918 ranges and it resides in <filename
|
|
class="directory">/usr/share/shorewall</filename>. Remove the
|
|
stale <filename>rfc1918</filename> file in <filename
|
|
class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename>.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry id="all2all">
|
|
<term>all2<zone>, <zone>2all or all2all</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>You have a <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Policy">policy</ulink> that specifies a log
|
|
level and this packet is being logged under that policy. If you
|
|
intend to ACCEPT this traffic then you need a <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Rules">rule</ulink> to that effect.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 3.3.3, packets logged out of these
|
|
chains may have a source and/or destination that is not in any
|
|
defined zone (see the output of <command>shorewall[-lite] show
|
|
zones</command>). Remember that zone membership involves both a
|
|
firewall interface and an ip address.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term><zone1>2<zone2></term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Either you have a <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Policy">policy</ulink> for <emphasis
|
|
role="bold"><zone1></emphasis> to <emphasis
|
|
role="bold"><zone2></emphasis> that specifies a log level
|
|
and this packet is being logged under that policy or this packet
|
|
matches a <ulink url="Documentation.htm#Rules">rule</ulink> that
|
|
includes a log level.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>@<source>2<dest></term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>You have a policy for traffic from <<emphasis
|
|
role="bold">source</emphasis>> to <<emphasis
|
|
role="bold">dest</emphasis>> that specifies TCP connection rate
|
|
limiting (value in the LIMIT:BURST column). The logged packet
|
|
exceeds that limit and was dropped. Note that these log messages
|
|
themselves are severely rate-limited so that a syn-flood won't
|
|
generate a secondary DOS because of excessive log message. These
|
|
log messages were added in Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 7.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term><interface>_mac</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet is being logged under the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">maclist</emphasis> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">interface
|
|
option</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>logpkt</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet is being logged under the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">logunclean</emphasis> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">interface
|
|
option</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>badpkt</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet is being logged under the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">dropunclean</emphasis> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">interface option</ulink> as
|
|
specified in the <emphasis role="bold">LOGUNCLEAN</emphasis>
|
|
setting in <ulink url="Documentation.htm#Conf">
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>
|
|
</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>blacklst</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet is being logged because the source IP is
|
|
blacklisted in the <filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Blacklist">/etc/shorewall/blacklist</ulink>
|
|
</filename> file.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>INPUT or FORWARD</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet has a source IP address that isn't in any of your
|
|
defined zones (<quote><command>shorewall[-lite] show
|
|
zones</command></quote> and look at the printed zone definitions)
|
|
or the chain is FORWARD and the destination IP isn't in any of
|
|
your defined zones. If the chain is FORWARD and the IN and OUT
|
|
interfaces are the same, then you probably need the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">routeback</emphasis> option on that interface in
|
|
<filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>
|
|
</filename> or you need the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">routeback</emphasis> option in the relevant entry in
|
|
<filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Hosts">/etc/shorewall/hosts</ulink>.</filename></para>
|
|
|
|
<para>In Shorewall 3.3.3 and later versions, such packets may also
|
|
be logged out of a <zone>2all chain or the all2all
|
|
chain.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>OUTPUT</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet has a destination IP address that isn't in any of
|
|
your defined zones(<command>shorewall[-lite] show zones</command>
|
|
and look at the printed zone definitions).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>In Shorewall 3.3.3 and later versions, such packets may also
|
|
be logged out of the fw2all chain or the all2all chain.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>logflags</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The packet is being logged because it failed the checks
|
|
implemented by the <emphasis role="bold">tcpflags</emphasis>
|
|
<ulink url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">interface
|
|
option</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title>Here is an example:</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Jun 27 15:37:56 gateway kernel:
|
|
Shorewall:<emphasis role="bold">all2all:REJECT</emphasis>:<emphasis
|
|
role="bold">IN=eth2</emphasis>
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">OUT=eth1</emphasis>
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">SRC=192.168.2.2</emphasis>
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">DST=192.168.1.3 </emphasis>LEN=67 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=5805 DF <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">PROTO=UDP</emphasis>
|
|
SPT=1803 <emphasis role="bold">DPT=53</emphasis> LEN=47</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Let's look at the important parts of this message:</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>all2all:REJECT</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>This packet was REJECTed out of the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">all2all</emphasis> chain -- the packet was rejected
|
|
under the <quote>all</quote>-><quote>all</quote> REJECT
|
|
policy (<link linkend="all2all">all2all</link> above).</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>IN=eth2</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the packet entered the firewall via eth2. If you see
|
|
<quote>IN=</quote> with no interface name, the packet originated
|
|
on the firewall itself.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>OUT=eth1</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>if accepted, the packet would be sent on eth1. If you see
|
|
<quote>OUT=</quote> with no interface name, the packet would be
|
|
processed by the firewall itself.</para>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>When a DNAT rule is logged, there will never be an OUT=
|
|
shown because the packet is being logged before it is routed.
|
|
Also, DNAT logging will show the <emphasis>original</emphasis>
|
|
destination IP address and destination port number.</para>
|
|
</note>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>SRC=192.168.2.2</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the packet was sent by 192.168.2.2</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>DST=192.168.1.3</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>the packet is destined for 192.168.1.3</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>PROTO=UDP</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>UDP Protocol</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>DPT=53</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The destination port is 53 (DNS)</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<para>For additional information about the log message, see <ulink
|
|
url="http://logi.cc/linux/netfilter-log-format.php3">http://logi.cc/linux/netfilter-log-format.php3</ulink>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>In this case, 192.168.2.2 was in the <quote>dmz</quote> zone and
|
|
192.168.1.3 is in the <quote>loc</quote> zone. I was missing the
|
|
rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>ACCEPT dmz loc udp 53</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq21">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 21) I see these strange log entries occasionally; what are
|
|
they?</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Nov 25 18:58:52 linux kernel:
|
|
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth1 OUT=
|
|
MAC=00:60:1d:f0:a6:f9:00:60:1d:f6:35:50:08:00 SRC=206.124.146.179
|
|
DST=192.0.2.3 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=18558 PROTO=ICMP
|
|
TYPE=3 CODE=3 [SRC=192.0.2.3 DST=172.16.1.10 LEN=128 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00
|
|
TTL=47 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=2857 LEN=108 ]</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>192.0.2.3 is external on my firewall... 172.16.0.0/24 is my
|
|
internal LAN</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> While most people
|
|
associate the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) with
|
|
<quote>ping</quote>, ICMP is a key piece of IP. ICMP is used to report
|
|
problems back to the sender of a packet; this is what is happening here.
|
|
Unfortunately, where NAT is involved (including SNAT, DNAT and
|
|
Masquerade), there are a lot of broken implementations. That is what you
|
|
are seeing with these messages. When Netfilter displays these messages,
|
|
the part before the "[" describes the ICMP packet and the part between
|
|
the "[" and "]" describes the packet for which the ICMP is a
|
|
response.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Here is my interpretation of what is happening -- to confirm this
|
|
analysis, one would have to have packet sniffers placed a both ends of
|
|
the connection.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Host 172.16.1.10 behind NAT gateway 206.124.146.179 sent a UDP DNS
|
|
query to 192.0.2.3 and your DNS server tried to send a response (the
|
|
response information is in the brackets -- note source port 53 which
|
|
marks this as a DNS reply). When the response was returned to to
|
|
206.124.146.179, it rewrote the destination IP TO 172.16.1.10 and
|
|
forwarded the packet to 172.16.1.10 who no longer had a connection on
|
|
UDP port 2857. This causes a port unreachable (type 3, code 3) to be
|
|
generated back to 192.0.2.3. As this packet is sent back through
|
|
206.124.146.179, that box correctly changes the source address in the
|
|
packet to 206.124.146.179 but doesn't reset the DST IP in the original
|
|
DNS response similarly. When the ICMP reaches your firewall (192.0.2.3),
|
|
your firewall has no record of having sent a DNS reply to 172.16.1.10 so
|
|
this ICMP doesn't appear to be related to anything that was sent. The
|
|
final result is that the packet gets logged and dropped in the all2all
|
|
chain. I have also seen cases where the source IP in the ICMP itself
|
|
isn't set back to the external IP of the remote NAT gateway; that causes
|
|
your firewall to log and drop the packet out of the rfc1918 chain
|
|
because the source IP is reserved by RFC 1918.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq52">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 52) When I blacklist an IP address with "shorewall[-lite]
|
|
drop www.xxx.yyy.zzz", why does my log still show REDIRECT and DNAT
|
|
entries from that address?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>I blacklisted the address 130.252.100.59 using <command>shorewall
|
|
drop 130.252.100.59</command> but I am still seeing these log
|
|
messages:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Jan 30 15:38:34 server Shorewall:net_dnat:REDIRECT:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:4f:4e:14:97:8e:00:01:5c:23:24:cc:08:00
|
|
SRC=130.252.100.59 DST=206.124.146.176 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=43 ID=42444 DF
|
|
PROTO=TCP SPT=2215 DPT=139 WINDOW=53760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Please refer to the
|
|
<ulink url="NetfilterOverview.html">Shorewall Netfilter
|
|
Documentation</ulink>. Logging of REDIRECT and DNAT rules occurs in the
|
|
nat table's PREROUTING chain where the original destination IP address
|
|
is still available. Blacklisting occurs out of the filter table's INPUT
|
|
and FORWARD chains which aren't traversed until later.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq56">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 56) When I start or restart Shorewall, I see these messages
|
|
in my log. Are they harmful?</title>
|
|
|
|
<blockquote>
|
|
<programlisting>modprobe: Can't locate module ipt_physdev
|
|
modprobe: Can't locate module iptable_raw</programlisting>
|
|
</blockquote>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> No. These occur when
|
|
Shorewall probes your system to determine the features that it support.
|
|
They are completely harmless.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Routing</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq32">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 32) My firewall has two connections to the internet from two
|
|
different ISPs. How do I set this up in Shorewall?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: See <ulink
|
|
url="MultiISP.html">this article on Shorewall and
|
|
Routing</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq49">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 49) When I start Shorewall, my routing table gets blown
|
|
away. Why does Shorewall do that?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: This is usually the
|
|
consequence of a one-to-one nat configuration blunder:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Specifying the primary IP address for an interface in the
|
|
EXTERNAL column of <filename>/etc/shorewall/nat</filename> even
|
|
though the documentation (and the comments in the file) warn you not
|
|
to do that.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Specifying ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and RETAIN_ALIASES=No in
|
|
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>This combination causes Shorewall to delete the primary IP address
|
|
from the network interface specified in the INTERFACE column which
|
|
usually causes all routes out of that interface to be deleted. The
|
|
solution is to <emphasis role="bold">not specify the primary IP address
|
|
of an interface in the EXTERNAL column</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Starting and Stopping</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq7">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 7) When I stop Shorewall using <quote>shorewall[-lite]
|
|
stop</quote>, I can't connect to anything. Why doesn't that command
|
|
work?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:The <quote>
|
|
<command>stop</command> </quote> command is intended to place your
|
|
firewall into a safe state whereby only those hosts listed in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/routestopped</filename>' are activated. If you
|
|
want to totally open up your firewall, you must use the <quote>
|
|
<command>shorewall[-lite] clear</command> </quote> command.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq8">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 8) When I try to start Shorewall on RedHat, I get messages
|
|
about insmod failing -- what's wrong?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> The output you will see
|
|
looks something like this:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
|
|
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters
|
|
/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod
|
|
/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o failed
|
|
/lib/modules/2.4.17/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: insmod ip_tables failed
|
|
iptables v1.2.3: can't initialize iptables table `nat': iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
|
|
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded.</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>This problem is usually corrected through the following sequence
|
|
of commands</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting><command>service ipchains stop
|
|
chkconfig --delete ipchains
|
|
rmmod ipchains</command></programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Also, be sure to check the <ulink url="errata.htm">errata</ulink>
|
|
for problems concerning the version of iptables (v1.2.3) shipped with
|
|
RH7.2.</para>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq8a">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 8a) When I try to start Shorewall on RedHat I get a
|
|
message referring me to FAQ #8</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> This is usually cured
|
|
by the sequence of commands shown above in <xref
|
|
linkend="faq8" />.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq9">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 9) Why can't Shorewall detect my interfaces properly at
|
|
startup?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>I just installed Shorewall and when I issue the start command, I
|
|
see the following:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
|
|
Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf ...
|
|
Starting Shorewall...
|
|
Loading Modules...
|
|
Initializing...
|
|
Determining Zones...
|
|
Zones: net loc
|
|
Validating interfaces file...
|
|
Validating hosts file...
|
|
Determining Hosts in Zones...
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">Net Zone: eth0:0.0.0.0/0
|
|
</emphasis><emphasis role="bold">Local Zone: eth1:0.0.0.0/0</emphasis>
|
|
Deleting user chains...
|
|
Creating input Chains...
|
|
...</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Why can't Shorewall detect my interfaces properly?</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> The above output is
|
|
perfectly normal. The Net zone is defined as all hosts that are
|
|
connected through eth0 and the local zone is defined as all hosts
|
|
connected through <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename>. If you
|
|
are running Shorewall 1.4.10 or later, you can consider setting the
|
|
<ulink url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces"> <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">detectnets</emphasis> interface option</ulink> on your local
|
|
interface (<filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename> in the above
|
|
example). That will cause Shorewall to restrict the local zone to only
|
|
those networks routed through that interface.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq22">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 22) I have some iptables commands that I want to run when
|
|
Shorewall starts. Which file do I put them in?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:You can place these
|
|
commands in one of the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_extension_scripts.htm">Shorewall Extension
|
|
Scripts</ulink>. Be sure that you look at the contents of the chain(s)
|
|
that you will be modifying with your commands to be sure that the
|
|
commands will do what they are intended. Many iptables commands
|
|
published in HOWTOs and other instructional material use the -A command
|
|
which adds the rules to the end of the chain. Most chains that Shorewall
|
|
constructs end with an unconditional DROP, ACCEPT or REJECT rule and any
|
|
rules that you add after that will be ignored. Check <quote>man
|
|
iptables</quote> and look at the -I (--insert) command.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq34">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 34) How can I speed up start (restart)?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>:Using a light-weight shell
|
|
such as <command>ash</command> can dramatically decrease the time
|
|
required to <emphasis role="bold">start</emphasis> or <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">restart</emphasis> Shorewall. See the SHOREWALL_SHELL
|
|
variable in <filename> <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Conf">shorewall.conf</ulink> </filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Use a fast terminal emulator -- in particular the KDE konsole
|
|
scrolls much faster than the Gnome terminal. Also use the '-q' option if
|
|
you are restarting remotely or from a slow terminal (or redirect the
|
|
output to a file as in <command>shorewall restart >
|
|
/dev/null</command>).</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Upgrade your hardware. Many people find that even a modest
|
|
increase in CPU and memory speed (e.g. from P3 with SDRAM to P4 with
|
|
DDR) helps dramatically. EM64T-capable CPUs (from either AMD or Intel)
|
|
exhibit quite acceptable restart speeds, even with a fairly complex
|
|
ruleset.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Shorewall also supports a fast start capability. To use this
|
|
capability:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>With Shorewall in the <ulink
|
|
url="starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm">started state</ulink>, run
|
|
<command>shorewall save</command>. This creates the script
|
|
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall/restore</filename>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Use the <emphasis role="bold">-f </emphasis>option to the
|
|
start command (e.g., <command>shorewall -f start</command>). This
|
|
causes Shorewall to look for the
|
|
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall/restore</filename> script and if that
|
|
script exists, it is run. Running
|
|
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall/restore</filename> takes much less time
|
|
than a full <command>shorewall start</command>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The <filename>/etc/init.d/shorewall</filename> script that is
|
|
run at boot time uses the <emphasis role="bold">-f</emphasis>
|
|
option.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The <filename>/var/lib/shorewall/restore</filename> script can
|
|
be run any time to restore the firewall. The script may be run
|
|
directly or it may be run indirectly using the <command>shorewall
|
|
restore</command> command.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you change your Shorewall configuration, you must execute a
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">shorewall start</emphasis> (without <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">-f</emphasis>) or <command>shorewall restart</command> prior
|
|
to doing another <command>shorewall save</command>. The
|
|
<command>shorewall save</command> command saves the currently running
|
|
configuration and not the one reflected in your updated configuration
|
|
files.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Likewise, if you change your Shorewall configuration then once you
|
|
are satisfied that it is working properly, you must do another
|
|
<command>shorewall save</command>. Otherwise at the next reboot, you
|
|
will revert to the old configuration stored in
|
|
<filename>/var/lib/shorewall/restore</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Finally, the time that new connections are blocked during
|
|
shorewall restart can be dramatically reduced by upgrading to Shorewall
|
|
3.2 or later. In 3.2 and later releases, <command>shorewall
|
|
[re]start</command> proceeds in two phases:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The current configuration is compiled to produce a shell
|
|
program tailored for your configuration.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If compilation is error-free, the compiled program is run to
|
|
[re]start your firewall.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq43">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 43) I just installed the Shorewall RPM and Shorewall doesn't
|
|
start at boot time.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: When you install using
|
|
the "rpm -U" command, Shorewall doesn't run your distribution's tool for
|
|
configuring Shorewall startup. You will need to run that tool (insserv,
|
|
chkconfig, run-level editor, …) to configure Shorewall to start in the
|
|
run-levels that you run your firewall system at.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq45">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 45) Why does "shorewall[-lite] start" fail when trying to
|
|
set up SNAT/Masquerading?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><command>shorewall start</command> produces the following
|
|
output:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>…
|
|
Processing /etc/shorewall/policy...
|
|
Policy ACCEPT for fw to net using chain fw2net
|
|
Policy ACCEPT for loc0 to net using chain loc02net
|
|
Policy ACCEPT for loc1 to net using chain loc12net
|
|
Policy ACCEPT for wlan to net using chain wlan2net
|
|
Masqueraded Networks and Hosts:
|
|
iptables: Invalid argument
|
|
ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -t nat -A …" Failed</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: 99.999% of the time, this
|
|
error is caused by a mismatch between your iptables and kernel.</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Your iptables must be compiled against a kernel source tree
|
|
that is Netfilter-compatible with the kernel that you are
|
|
running.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>If you rebuild iptables using the defaults and install it, it
|
|
will be installed in /usr/local/sbin/iptables. As shown above, you
|
|
have the IPTABLES variable in shorewall.conf set to
|
|
"/sbin/iptables".</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq59">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 59) After I start Shorewall, there are lots of unused
|
|
Netfilter modules loaded. How do I avoid that?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Copy
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/modules</filename> (or
|
|
<filename>/usr/share/shorewall/xmodules</filename> if appropriate) to
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/modules </filename>and modify the copy to
|
|
include only the modules that you need.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq61">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 61) I just installed the latest Debian kernel and now
|
|
"shorewall start" fails with the message "ipt_policy: matchsize 116 !=
|
|
308". What's wrong?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Answer: Your iptables is incompatible with your kernel.
|
|
Either</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>rebuild iptables using the kernel headers that match your new
|
|
kernel; or</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>if you don't need policy match support (you are not using the
|
|
IPSEC implementation built into the 2.6 kernel) then you can rename
|
|
<filename>/lib/iptables/libipt_policy.so</filename>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Multiple ISPs</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq57">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 57) I configured two ISPs in Shorewall but when I try to use
|
|
the second one, it doesn't work.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> The Multi-ISP
|
|
Documentation strongly recommends that you use the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">balance</emphasis> option on all providers even if you want
|
|
to manually specify which ISP to use. If you don't do that so that your
|
|
main routing table only has one default route, then you must disable
|
|
route filtering. Do not specify the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">routefilter</emphasis> option on the other interface(s) in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename> and disable any
|
|
<emphasis>IP Address Spoofing</emphasis> protection that your
|
|
distribution supplies.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq58">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 58) But if I specify 'balance' then won't Shorewall balance
|
|
the traffic between the interfaces? I don't want that!</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Suppose that you want all
|
|
traffic to go out through ISP1 (mark 1) unless you specify otherwise.
|
|
Then simply add these two rules as the first marking rules in your
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> file:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DEST
|
|
1:P 0.0.0.0/0
|
|
1:P $FW
|
|
<other MARK rules></programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Now any traffic that isn't marked by one of your other MARK rules
|
|
will have mark = 1 and will be sent via ISP1. That will work whether
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis> is specified or not!</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>About Shorewall</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq10">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 10) What Distributions does Shorewall work with?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall works with any
|
|
GNU/Linux distribution that includes the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_prerequisites.htm">proper prerequisites</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq11">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 11) What Features does Shorewall have?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> See the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_features.htm">Shorewall Feature List</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq12">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 12) Is there a GUI?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Yes! Shorewall 3.x
|
|
support is available in Webmin 1.300. See <ulink
|
|
url="http://www.webmin.com">http://www.webmin.com</ulink></para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq13">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 13) Why do you call it <quote>Shorewall</quote>?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Shorewall is a
|
|
concatenation of <quote> <emphasis>Shore</emphasis>line</quote> (<ulink
|
|
url="http://www.cityofshoreline.com">the city where I live</ulink>) and
|
|
<quote>Fire<emphasis>wall</emphasis> </quote>. The full name of the
|
|
product is actually <quote>Shoreline Firewall</quote> but
|
|
<quote>Shorewall</quote> is much more commonly used.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq23">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 23) Why do you use such ugly fonts on your web site?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: The Shorewall web site is
|
|
almost font neutral (it doesn't explicitly specify fonts except on a few
|
|
pages) so the fonts you see are largely the default fonts configured in
|
|
your browser. If you don't like them then reconfigure your
|
|
browser.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq25">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 25) How do I tell which version of Shorewall or Shorewall
|
|
Lite I am running?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: At the shell prompt,
|
|
type:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting><command>/sbin/shorewall[-lite] version</command> </programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq31">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 31) Does Shorewall provide protection against....</title>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>IP Spoofing: Sending packets over the WAN interface using an
|
|
internal LAP IP address as the source address?</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Yes.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Tear Drop: Sending packets that contain overlapping
|
|
fragments?</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: This is the
|
|
responsibility of the IP stack, not the Netfilter-based firewall
|
|
since fragment reassembly occurs before the stateful packet filter
|
|
ever touches each packet.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Smurf and Fraggle: Sending packets that use the WAN or LAN
|
|
broadcast address as the source address?</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall can be
|
|
configured to do that using the <ulink
|
|
url="blacklisting_support.htm">blacklisting</ulink> facility.
|
|
Shorewall versions 2.0.0 and later filter these packets under the
|
|
<firstterm>nosmurfs</firstterm> interface option in <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">/etc/shorewall/interfaces</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>Land Attack: Sending packets that use the same address as the
|
|
source and destination address?</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Yes, if the <ulink
|
|
url="Documentation.htm#Interfaces">routefilter interface
|
|
option</ulink> is selected.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>DOS: - SYN Dos - ICMP Dos - Per-host Dos protection</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall has
|
|
facilities for limiting SYN and ICMP packets. Netfilter as
|
|
included in standard Linux kernels doesn't support per-remote-host
|
|
limiting except by explicit rule that specifies the host IP
|
|
address; that form of limiting is supported by Shorewall.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq36">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 36) Does Shorewall Work with the 2.6 Linux Kernel?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall works with the
|
|
2.6 Kernels with a couple of caveats:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Netfilter/iptables doesn't fully support IPSEC in the 2.6
|
|
Kernels prior to 2.6.16 -- kernel and iptables patches are available
|
|
and the details may be found at the <ulink
|
|
url="IPSEC-2.6.html">Shorewall IPSEC-2.6 page</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The 2.6 Kernels do not provide support for the logunclean and
|
|
dropunclean options in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>. Note that support
|
|
for those options was also removed from Shorewall in version
|
|
2.0.0.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>RFC 1918</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq14">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 14) I'm connected via a cable modem and it has an internal
|
|
web server that allows me to configure/monitor it but as expected if I
|
|
enable rfc1918 blocking for my eth0 interface (the internet one), it
|
|
also blocks the cable modems web server.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Is there any way it can add a rule before the rfc1918 blocking
|
|
that will let all traffic to and from the 192.168.100.1 address of the
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modem in/out but still block all other rfc1918 addresses?</para>
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|
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Add the following to
|
|
<ulink url="Documentation.htm#rfc1918">/etc/shorewall/rfc1918</ulink>
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|
(Note: If you are running Shorewall 2.0.0 or later, you may need to
|
|
first copy <filename>/usr/share/shorewall/rfc1918</filename> to
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/rfc1918</filename>):</para>
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|
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<para>Be sure that you add the entry ABOVE the entry for
|
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192.168.0.0/16.</para>
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<programlisting>#SUBNET TARGET
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192.168.100.1 RETURN</programlisting>
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|
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<note>
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<para>If you add a second IP address to your external firewall
|
|
interface to correspond to the modem address, you must also make an
|
|
entry in /etc/shorewall/rfc1918 for that address. For example, if you
|
|
configure the address 192.168.100.2 on your firewall, then you would
|
|
add two entries to /etc/shorewall/rfc1918:</para>
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|
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<programlisting>#SUBNET TARGET
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192.168.100.1 RETURN
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192.168.100.2 RETURN</programlisting>
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</note>
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|
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<section id="faq14a">
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<title>(FAQ 14a) Even though it assigns public IP addresses, my ISP's
|
|
DHCP server has an RFC 1918 address. If I enable RFC 1918 filtering on
|
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my external interface, my DHCP client cannot renew its lease.</title>
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|
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: The solution is the
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|
same as <xref linkend="faq14" /> above. Simply substitute the IP
|
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address of your ISPs DHCP server.</para>
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</section>
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|
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<section id="faq14b">
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<title>(FAQ 14b) I connect to the internet with PPPoE. When I try to
|
|
access the built-in web server in my DSL Modem, I get connection
|
|
Refused.</title>
|
|
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|
<para>I see the following in my log:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Mar 1 18:20:07 Mail kernel: Shorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:IN= OUT=eth0 SRC=192.168.1.2 DST=192.168.1.1 LEN=60
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TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=26774 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=32797 DPT=80 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 </programlisting>
|
|
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|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: The fact that the
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message is being logged from the OUTPUT chain means that the
|
|
destination IP address is not in any defined zone (see <link
|
|
linkend="faq17">FAQ 17</link>). You need to:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Add a zone for the modem in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/zones</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS
|
|
modem ipv4</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Define the zone to be associated with <filename
|
|
class="devicefile">eth0</filename> (or whatever interface connects
|
|
to your modem) in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
|
|
modem eth0 detect</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Allow web traffic to the modem in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
|
|
ACCEPT fw modem tcp 80
|
|
ACCEPT loc modem tcp 80</programlisting>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>Note that many of these ADSL/Cable Modems have no default
|
|
gateway or their default gateway is at a fixed IP address that is
|
|
different from the IP address you have assigned to your external
|
|
interface. In either case, you may have problems browsing the modem
|
|
from your local network even if you have the correct routes
|
|
established on your firewall. This is usually solved by masquerading
|
|
traffic from your local network to the modem.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS
|
|
eth0 eth1 # eth1 = interface to local network</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>For an example of this when the ADSL/Cable modem is bridged, see
|
|
<ulink url="XenMyWay.html">my configuration</ulink>. In that case, I
|
|
masquerade using the IP address of my local interface!</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Alias IP Addresses/Virtual Interfaces</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq18">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 18) Is there any way to use aliased ip addresses with
|
|
Shorewall, and maintain separate rulesets for different IPs?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Yes. See <ulink
|
|
url="Shorewall_and_Aliased_Interfaces.html">Shorewall and Aliased
|
|
Interfaces</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Shorewall Lite</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq53">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 53) What is Shorewall Lite?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall Lite is a
|
|
companion product to Shorewall and is designed to allow you to maintain
|
|
all Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your
|
|
network. See the <ulink url="CompiledPrograms.html#Lite">Compiled
|
|
Firewall script documentation</ulink> for details.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq54">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 54) If I want to use Shorewall Lite, do I also need to
|
|
install Shorewall on the same system?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: No. In fact, we recommend
|
|
that you do <emphasis role="bold">NOT</emphasis> install Shorewall on
|
|
systems where you wish to use Shorewall Lite. You must have Shorewall
|
|
installed on at least one system within your network in order to use
|
|
Shorewall Lite.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq55">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 55) How do I decide which product to use - Shorewall or
|
|
Shorewall Lite?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: If you plan to have only
|
|
a single firewall system, then Shorewall is the logical choice. I also
|
|
think that Shorewall is the appropriate choice for laptop systems that
|
|
may need to have their firewall configuration changed while on the road.
|
|
In the remaining cases, Shorewall Lite will work very well. At
|
|
shorewall.net, the two laptop systems have the full Shorewall product
|
|
installed as does my personal Linux desktop system. All other Linux
|
|
systems that run a firewall use Shorewall Lite and have their
|
|
configuration directories on my desktop system.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq60">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 60) What are the compatibility restrictions between
|
|
Shorewall and Shorewall Lite</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: See the following table
|
|
(C = Completely compatible with all features available, P1 = Compatible
|
|
but not all Shorewall features available, P2 = Compatible but not all
|
|
Shorewall LIte features available, I = incompatible).</para>
|
|
|
|
<informaltable align="center">
|
|
<tgroup cols="5">
|
|
<colspec align="center" />
|
|
|
|
<thead>
|
|
<row>
|
|
<entry align="center"></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">Shorewall Lite 3.2.0</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center" morerows="">Shorewall Lite 3.2.1</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">Shorewall Lite 3.2.2</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">Shorewall Lite 3.2.3</entry>
|
|
</row>
|
|
</thead>
|
|
|
|
<tbody>
|
|
<row>
|
|
<entry><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall 3.2.0</emphasis></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P2</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P2</entry>
|
|
</row>
|
|
|
|
<row>
|
|
<entry><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall 3.2.1</emphasis></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P2</entry>
|
|
</row>
|
|
|
|
<row>
|
|
<entry><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall 3.2.2</emphasis></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P1</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P1</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
</row>
|
|
|
|
<row>
|
|
<entry><emphasis role="bold">Shorewall 3.2.3</emphasis></entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P1</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">P1</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
|
|
<entry align="center">C</entry>
|
|
</row>
|
|
</tbody>
|
|
</tgroup>
|
|
</informaltable>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Miscellaneous</title>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq20">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 20) I have just set up a server. Do I have to change
|
|
Shorewall to allow access to my server from the internet?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Yes. Consult the <ulink
|
|
url="shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm">QuickStart guide</ulink> that you
|
|
used during your initial setup for information about how to set up rules
|
|
for your server.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq24">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 24) How can I allow conections to let's say the ssh port
|
|
only from specific IP Addresses on the internet?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: In the SOURCE column of
|
|
the rule, follow <quote>net</quote> by a colon and a list of the
|
|
host/subnet addresses as a comma-separated list.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>net:<ip1>,<ip2>,...</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<example>
|
|
<title>Example:</title>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>ACCEPT net:192.0.2.16/28,192.0.2.44 fw tcp 22</programlisting>
|
|
</example>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq26">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 26) When I try to use any of the SYN options in nmap on or
|
|
behind the firewall, I get <quote>operation not permitted</quote>. How
|
|
can I use nmap with Shorewall?"</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Temporarily remove and
|
|
rejNotSyn, dropNotSyn and dropInvalid rules from
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/rules</filename> and restart Shorewall.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq27">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 27) I'm compiling a new kernel for my firewall. What should
|
|
I look out for?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: First take a look at the
|
|
<ulink url="kernel.htm">Shorewall kernel configuration page</ulink>. You
|
|
probably also want to be sure that you have selected the <quote>
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">NAT of local connections (READ HELP)</emphasis>
|
|
</quote> on the Netfilter Configuration menu. Otherwise, DNAT rules with
|
|
your firewall as the source zone won't work with your new kernel.</para>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq27a">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 27a) I just built (or downloaded or otherwise acquired)
|
|
and installed a new kernel and now Shorewall won't start. I know that
|
|
my kernel options are correct.</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The last few lines of <ulink url="troubleshoot.htm">a startup
|
|
trace</ulink> are these:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>+ run_iptables2 -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
|
|
MASQUERADE
|
|
+ '[' 'x-t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
|
|
MASQUERADE' = 'x-t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.
|
|
0/0 -j MASQUERADE' ']'
|
|
+ run_iptables -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
|
|
MASQUERADE
|
|
+ iptables -t nat -A eth0_masq -s 192.168.2.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0 -j
|
|
MASQUERADE
|
|
iptables: Invalid argument
|
|
+ '[' -z '' ']'
|
|
+ stop_firewall
|
|
+ set +x</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Your new kernel
|
|
contains headers that are incompatible with the ones used to compile
|
|
your <command>iptables</command> utility. You need to rebuild
|
|
<command>iptables</command> using your new kernel source.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq28">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 28) How do I use Shorewall as a Bridging Firewall?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Shorewall Bridging
|
|
Firewall support is available — <ulink url="bridge.html">check here for
|
|
details</ulink>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq39">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 39) How do I block connections to a particular domain
|
|
name?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>I tried this rule to block Google's Adsense that you'll find on
|
|
everyone's site. Adsense is a Javascript that people add to their Web
|
|
pages. So I entered the rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO
|
|
REJECT fw net:pagead2.googlesyndication.com all</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>However, this also sometimes restricts access to "google.com". Why
|
|
is that? Using dig, I found these IPs for domain
|
|
googlesyndication.com:<programlisting>216.239.37.99
|
|
216.239.39.99</programlisting>And this for google.com:<programlisting>216.239.37.99
|
|
216.239.39.99
|
|
216.239.57.99</programlisting>So my guess is that you are not actually
|
|
blocking the domain, but rather the IP being called. So how in the world
|
|
do you block an actual domain name?</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Packet filters like
|
|
Netfilter base their decisions on the contents of the various protocol
|
|
headers at the front of each packet. Stateful packet filters (of which
|
|
Netfilter is an example) use a combination of header contents and state
|
|
created when the packet filter processed earlier packets. Netfilter (and
|
|
Shorewall's use of netfilter) also consider the network interface(s)
|
|
where each packet entered and/or where the packet will leave the
|
|
firewall/router.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>When you specify <ulink
|
|
url="configuration_file_basics.htm#dnsnames">a domain name in a
|
|
Shorewall rule</ulink>, the iptables program resolves that name to one
|
|
or more IP addresses and the actual netfilter rules that are created are
|
|
expressed in terms of those IP addresses. So the rule that you entered
|
|
was equivalent to:</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO
|
|
REJECT fw net:216.239.37.99 all
|
|
REJECT fw net:216.239.39.99 all</programlisting>Given that
|
|
name-based multiple hosting is a common practice (another example:
|
|
lists.shorewall.net and www1.shorewall.net are both hosted on the same
|
|
system with a single IP address), it is not possible to filter
|
|
connections to a particular name by examination of protocol headers
|
|
alone. While some protocols such as <ulink url="FTP.html">FTP</ulink>
|
|
require the firewall to examine and possibly modify packet payload,
|
|
parsing the payload of individual packets doesn't always work because
|
|
the application-level data stream can be split across packets in
|
|
arbitrary ways. This is one of the weaknesses of the 'string match'
|
|
Netfilter extension available in Patch-O-Matic-ng. The only sure way to
|
|
filter on packet content is to proxy the connections in question -- in
|
|
the case of HTTP, this means running something like <ulink
|
|
url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid</ulink>. Proxying allows the
|
|
proxy process to assemble complete application-level messages which can
|
|
then be accurately parsed and decisions can be made based on the
|
|
result.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq42">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 42) How can I tell which features my kernel and iptables
|
|
support?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer</emphasis>: Use the
|
|
<command>shorewall[-lite] show capabilities</command> command at a root
|
|
prompt.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>gateway:~# shorewall show capabilities
|
|
Loading /usr/share/shorewall/functions...
|
|
Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
|
|
Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf...
|
|
Loading Modules...
|
|
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities:
|
|
NAT: Available
|
|
Packet Mangling: Available
|
|
Multi-port Match: Available
|
|
Extended Multi-port Match: Available
|
|
Connection Tracking Match: Available
|
|
Packet Type Match: Available
|
|
Policy Match: Available
|
|
Physdev Match: Available
|
|
IP range Match: Available
|
|
Recent Match: Available
|
|
Owner Match: Available
|
|
Ipset Match: Available
|
|
ROUTE Target: Available
|
|
Extended MARK Target: Available
|
|
CONNMARK Target: Available
|
|
Connmark Match: Available
|
|
Raw Table: Available
|
|
gateway:~#</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="faq19">
|
|
<title>(FAQ 19) How do I open the firewall for all traffic to/from the
|
|
LAN?</title>
|
|
|
|
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Add these two
|
|
policies:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#SOURCE DESTINATION POLICY LOG LIMIT:BURST
|
|
# LEVEL
|
|
$FW loc ACCEPT
|
|
loc $FW ACCEPT </programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>You can also delete any ACCEPT rules from $FW->loc and
|
|
loc->$FW since those rules are redundant with the above
|
|
policies.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</article> |