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Shorewall 4.0.0 Beta 6
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R E L E A S E H I G H L I G H T S
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1) This is the first Shorewall release that fully integrates the new
Shorewall-perl compiler. See the "New Features" section below.
2) You are now offered a choice as to which compiler(s) you install. In
4.0.0, there are the following packages:
- Shorewall ( common files )
- Shorewall-shell ( the shell-based compiler )
- Shorewall-perl (the Perl-based compiler )
You must install Shorewall and at least one of the compiler packages
(you may install them both).
Problems corrected in 4.0.0 Beta 6.
1) With Shorewall-perl, an invalid DISPOSITION in an
/etc/shorewall/maclist entry would cause Perl error messages to be
issued.
2) Shorewall-perl now catches invalid interface names in the
/etc/shorewall/routestopped file.
1) DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes can now coexist with Shorewall-perl's 'bport'
zones. Those zones themselves may not be dynamically modified but
the presence of bport zones no longer causes the 'shorewall add'
command to fail.
3) The new bridge implementation introduced with Beta 5 now works with
DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes.
Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.0 Beta 6
1) When a Shorewall release includes detection of an additional
capability, existing capabilities files become out of
date. Previously, this condition was not detected.
Beginning with this release, each generated capabilities file
contains a CAPVERSION specification which defines the capabilities
version of the file. If the CAPVERSION in a capabilities file is
less than the current CAPVERSION, then Shorewall will issue the
following message:
WARNING: <file> is out of date -- it does not contain all of
the capabilities defined by Shorewall version <version>
where
<file> is the name of the capabilities file.
<version> is the current Shorewall version.
Existing capabilities files contain no CAPVERSION. When such a file
is read, Shorewall will issue this message:
WARNING: <file> may be not contain all of the capabilities defined
by Shorewall version <version>
2) When a directory is specified in a command such as 'start' or
'compile', Shorewall now reads the shorewall.conf file (if any) in
that directory before deciding which compiler to use. So if
SHOREWALL_COMPILER is not specified in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and the -C option was not specified
on the run-line, then if both Shorewall-shell and Shorewall-perl
are installed, the additional shorewall.conf file is read to see if
it specifies a SHOREWALL_COMPILER.
3) Shorewall-perl validates protocol names and service names against
/etc/protocols and /etc/services. That's the good news. The bad
news is that this extra validation has a fixed overhead of almost
.8 seconds on my x86_64 box. This fixed cost is mostly attributable
to the cost of reading and digesting /etc/services.
To give people the choice of whether they want to incur this fixed
cost on each compilation, I've added a VALIDATE_PORTS option in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf. If you set this to 'No', you can
save the extra processing time but the compiled script may fail at
runtime because of typing errors.
Migration Considerations:
1) You cannot simply upgrade your existing Shorewall package. You must
upgrade Shorewall *and* install one or both of the compilers.
If you attempt to upgrade using the RPM, you get this result:
gateway:~ # rpm -Uvh shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
shorewall_compiler is needed by shorewall-4.0.0-1.noarch
gateway:~ #
You must either:
rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
or
rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
or
rpm -i shorewall-shell-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
or
rpm -i shorewall-perl-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
rpm -U shorewall-4.0.0.noarch.rpm
If you are upgrading using the tarball, you must install either
shorewall-shell or shorewall-perl before you upgrade
Shorewall. Otherwise, the install.sh script fails with:
ERROR: No Shorewall compiler is installed
The shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl packages are installed from
the tarball in the expected way; untar the package, and run the
install.sh script.
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N E W F E A T U R E S
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1) Shorewall-perl
This companion product to Shorewall 3.4.2 and later includes a complete
rewrite of the compiler in Perl.
I decided to make Shorewall-perl a separate product for several reasons:
a) Embedded applications are unlikely to adopt Shorewall-perl; even
Mini-Perl has a substantial disk and RAM footprint.
b) Because of the gross incompatibilities between the new compiler and the
old (see below), migration to the new compiler must be voluntary.
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T H E G O O D N E W S:
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a) The compiler has a small disk footprint.
b) The compiler is very fast.
c) The compiler generates a firewall script that uses iptables-restore;
so the script is very fast.
d) Use of the perl compiler is optional! The old slow clunky
Bourne-shell compiler is still available.
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T H E B A D N E W S:
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There are a number of incompatibilities between the Perl-based compiler
and the Bourne-shell one. Some of these will probably go away by first
official release but most will not.
a) The Perl-based compiler requires the following capabilities in your
kernel and iptables.
- addrtype match (may be relaxed later)
- multiport match (will not be relaxed)
These capabilities are in current distributions.
b) Now that Netfilter has features to deal reasonably with port lists,
I see no reason to duplicate those features in Shorewall. The
Bourne-shell compiler goes to great pain (in some cases) to
break very long port lists ( > 15 where port ranges in lists
count as two ports) into individual rules. In the new compiler, I'm
avoiding the ugliness required to do that. The new compiler just
generates an error if your list is too long. It will also produce
an error if you insert a port range into a port list and you don't
have extended multiport support.
c) The old BRIDGING=Yes support has been replaced by new bridge
support that uses the reduced 'physdev match' capabilities found
in kernel 2.6.20 and later. This new implementation may be used
where it is desired to control traffic through a bridge.
The new implementation includes the following features:
a) A new "Bridge Port" zone type is defined. Specify 'bport' or
'bport4' in the TYPE column of /etc/shorewall/zones.
Bridge Port zones should be a sub-zone of a regular ipv4 zone
that represents all hosts attached to the bridge.
b) A new 'bridge' option is defined for entries in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. Bridges should have this option
specified.
c) Bridge ports must now be defined in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. The INTERFACE column contains
both the bridge name and the port name separated by a colon
(e.g., "br0:eth1"). No OPTIONS are allowed for bridge
ports. The bridge must be defined before its ports and must
have the 'bridge' option.
Bridge Port (BP) zones have a number of limitations:
a) Each BP zone may only be associated with ports on a single
bridge.
b) BP zones may not be associated with interfaces that are not
bridge ports.
c) You may not have policies or rules where the DEST is a BP
zone but the source is not a BP zone. If you need such
rules, you must use the BP zone's parent zone as the DEST.
Example (Bridge br0 with ports eth1 and tap0):
/etc/shorewall/zones:
fw firewall
net ipv4
loc ipv4
lan:loc bport
vpn:loc bport
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
net eth0 - ...
loc br0 - ...
lan eth1
vpn tap0
When using the /etc/shorewall/hosts file to define a bport4
zone, you specify only the port name:
Example:
/etc/shorewall/zones:
fw firewall
net ipv4
loc ipv4
lan:loc bport
vpn:loc bport
/etc/shorewall/hosts
lan eth1:192.168.2.0/24 ...
d) The BROADCAST column in the interfaces file is essentially unused;
if you enter anything in this column but '-' or 'detect', you will
receive a warning. This will be relaxed if and when the addrtype
match requirement is relaxed.
e) Because the compiler is now written in Perl, your compile-time
extension scripts from earlier versions will no longer work.
Compile-time extension scripts are executed using the Perl
'eval `cat <file>`' mechanism. Be sure that each script returns a
'true' value; otherwise, the compiler will assume that the script
failed and will abort the compilation.
All scripts will need to begin with the following line:
use Shorewall::Chains;
For more complex scripts, you may need to 'use' other Shorewall
Perl modules -- browse /usr/share/shorewall-perl/Shorewall/ to
see what's available.
When a script is invoked, the $chainref scalar variable will hold a
reference to a chain table entry.
$chainref->{name} contains the name of the chain
$chainref->{table} holds the table name
To add a rule to the chain:
add_rule( $chainref, <the rule> );
Where
<the rule> is a scalar argument holding the rule text. Do
not include "-A <chain name>"
Example:
add_rule( $chainref, '-j ACCEPT' );
To insert a rule into the chain:
insert_rule( $chainref, <rulenum>, <the rule> );
The log_rule_limit function works like it does in the shell
compiler with two exceptions:
- You pass the chain reference rather than the name of
the chain.
- The commands are 'add' and 'insert' rather than '-A'
and '-I'.
- There is only a single "pass as-is to iptables"
argument (so you must quote that part).
Example:
log_rule_limit(
'info' ,
$chainref ,
$chainref->{name},
'DROP' ,
'', #Limit
'' , #Log tag
'add', #Command
'-p tcp' #Pass as-is
);
f) The 'refresh' command now works like 'restart' with the
following exceptions:
- The refresh command is rejected if Shorewall is not running.
- A directory name may not be specified in the refresh command.
g) Some run-time scripts have been converted to compile time
scripts:
initdone
maclog
Note that in the 'initdone' script, there is no default chain
($chainref). You can objtain a reference to a standard chain by:
my $chainref = $chain_table{<table>}{<chain name>};
Example:
my $chainref = $chain_table{'filter'}{'INPUT'};
Some run-time scripts are simply eliminated because they no
longer make any sense under Shorewall-perl:
continue - This script was designed to allow you to add
special rules during [re]start.
Shorewall-perl doesn't need such rules.
refresh - The 'refresh' command is the same as 'restart'
refreshed
h) The /etc/shorewall/tos file now has zone-independent SOURCE and
DEST columns as do all other files except the rules and policy
files.
The SOURCE column may be one of the following:
[all:]<address>[,...]
[all:]<interface>[:<address>[,...]]
$FW[:<address>[,...]]
The DEST column may be one of the following:
[all:]<address>[,...]
[all:]<interface>[:<address>[,...]]
This is a permanent change. The old zone-based rules have never
worked right and this is a good time to replace them. I've tried
to make the new syntax cover the most common cases without
requiring change to existing files. In particular, it will
handle the tos file released with Shorewall 1.4 and earlier.
i) Shorewall is now out of the ipset load/reload business. With
scripts generated by the Perl-based Compiler, the Netfilter
ruleset is never cleared. That means that there is no
opportunity for Shorewall to load/reload your ipsets since that
cannot be done while there are any current rules using ipsets.
So:
i) Your ipsets must be loaded before Shorewall starts. You
are free to try to do that with the following code in
/etc/shorewall/start:
if [ "$COMMAND" = start ]; then
ipset -U :all: :all:
ipset -F
ipset -X
ipset -R < /my/ipset/contents
fi
The file '/my/ipset/contents' (not its real name of
course) will normally be produced using the ipset -S
command.
The above will work most of the time but will fail in a
'shorewall stop' - 'shorewall start' sequence if you
use ipsets in your routestopped file (see below).
ii) Your ipsets may not be reloaded until Shorewall is stopped
or cleared.
iii) If you specify ipsets in your routestopped file then
Shorewall must be cleared in order to reload your ipsets.
As a consequence, scripts generated by the Perl-based compiler
will ignore /etc/shorewall/ipsets and will issue a warning if
you set SAVE_IPSETS=Yes in shorewall.conf.
j) Because the configuration files (with the exception of
/etc/shorewall/params) are now processed by the Perl-based
compiler rather than by the shell, only the basic forms of Shell
expansion ($variable and ${variable}) are supported. The more
exotic forms such as ${variable:=default} are not
supported. Both variables defined in /etc/shorewall/params and
environmental variables (exported by the shell) can be used in
configuration files.
h) USE_ACTIONS=No is not supported. That option is intended to
minimize Shorewall's footprint in embedded applications. As a
consequence, Default Macros are not supported.
i) DELAYBLACKLISTLOAD=Yes is not supported. The entire ruleset is
atomically loaded with one execution of iptables-restore.
j) MAPOLDACTIONS=Yes is not supported. People should have converted
to using macros by now.
k) The pre Shorewall-3.0 format of the zones file is not supported;
neither is the /etc/shorewall/ipsec file.
l) BLACKLISTNEWONLY=No is not permitted with FASTACCEPT=Yes. This
combination doesn't work in previous versions of Shorewall so
the Perl-based compiler simply rejects it.
m) Shorewall-perl has a single rule generator that is used for all
rule-oriented files. So it is important that the syntax is
consistent between files.
With shorewall-shell, there is a special syntax in the SOURCE
column of /etc/shorewall/masq to designate "all traffic entering
the firewall on this interface except...".
Example:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESSES
eth0 eth1!192.168.4.9 ...
Shorewall-perl uses syntax that is consistent with the rest of
Shorewall:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESSES
eth0 eth1:!192.168.4.9 ...
n) The 'allowoutUPnP' built-in action is no longer supported. The
Netfilter team have removed support for '-m owner --owner-cmd'
which that action depended on.
o) The treatment of the following interface options has changed under
Shorewall-perl.
- arp_filter
- routefilter
- logmartians
- proxy_arp
- sourceroute
With the Shorewall-shell compiler, Shorewall resets these options
on all interfaces then sets the option on those interfaces
for which the option is defined in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.
Under Shorewall-perl, these options can be specified with the value
0 or 1 (e.g., proxy_arp=0). If no value is specified, the value 1
is assumed. Shorewall will modify only the setting of those
interfaces for which the option is specified and will set the
option to the given value.
A fatal compilation error is also generated if you specify one of
these options with a wildcard interface (one ending with '+').
p) The LOG_MARTIANS and ROUTE_FILTER options are now tri-valued in
Shorewall-perl.
Yes - Same as before
No - Same as before except that it applies regardless of
whether any interfaces have the logmartians/routefilter
option
Keep - Shorewall ignores the option entirely.
2) An 'optional' option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/interfaces. This option is recognized by
Shorewall-perl but not by Shorewall-shell. When 'optional' is
specified for an interface, Shorewall will be silent when:
- a /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/ entry for the interface cannot be
modified (including for proxy ARP).
- The first address of the interface cannot be obtained.
I specify 'optional' on interfaces to Xen virtual machines that may
or may not be running when Shorewall is [re]started.
CAUTION: Use 'optional' at your own risk. If you [re]start
Shorewall when an 'optional' interface is not available and then do
a 'shorewall save', subsequent 'shorewall restore' and 'shorewall -f
start' operations will instantiate a ruleset that does not support
that interface, even if it is available at the time of the
restore/start.
3) Thanks to Paul Gear, an IPPServer macro has been added. Be sure to
read the comments in the macro file before trying to use this
macro.
4) Eariler generations of Shorewall Lite required that remote root
login via ssh be enabled in order to use the 'load' and 'reload'
commands.
Beginning with this release, you may define an alternative means
for accessing the remote firewall system.
Two new options have been added to shorewall.conf:
RSH_COMMAND
RCP_COMMAND
The default values for these are as follows:
RSH_COMMAND: ssh ${root}@${system} ${command}
RCP_COMMAND: scp ${files} ${root}@${system}:${destination}
Shell variables that will be set when the commands are envoked are
as follows:
root - root user. Normally 'root' but may be overridden using
the '-r' option.
system - The name/IP address of the remote firewall system.
command - For RSH_COMMAND, the command to be executed on the
firewall system.
files - For RCP_COMMAND, a space-separated list of files to
be copied to the remote firewall system.
destination - The directory on the remote system that the files
are to be copied into.
5) The accounting, masq, rules and tos files now have a 'MARK' column
similar to the column of the same name in the tcrules file. This
column allows filtering by MARK and CONNMARK value (CONNMARK is
only accepted under Shorewall Perl).
6) SOURCE and DEST are now reserved zone names to avoid problems with
bi-directional macro definitions which use these as names as key
words.
7) Shorewall-perl validates all IP addresses and addresses ranges
in rules. DNS names are resolved and an error is issued for any
name that cannot be resolved.
8) Shorewall-perl checks configuration files for the presense of
characters that can cause problems if they are allowed into the
generated firewall script:
- Double Quotes. These are prohibited except in the
shorewall.conf and params files.
- Single Quotes. These are prohibited except in the
shorewall.conf and params files and in COMMENT lines.
- Single back quotes. These are prohibited except in the
shorewall.conf and params files.
- Backslash. Probibited except as the last character on a line to
denote line continuation.
9) Under Shorewall-perl, macros may invoke other macros with the
restriction that such macros may not be invoked within an action
body.
When marcros are invoked recursively, the parameter passed to an
invocation are automatically propagated to lower level macros.
Macro invocations may be nested to a maximum level of 5.
12) The "shorewall show zones" command now flags zone members that have
been added using "shorewall add" by preceding them with a plus sign
("+").
Example:
Shorewall 3.9.4 Zones at gateway - Mon May 14 07:48:16 PDT 2007
fw (firewall)
net (ipv4)
eth0:0.0.0.0/0
loc (ipv4)
br0:0.0.0.0/0
eth4:0.0.0.0/0
eth5:0.0.0.0/0
+eth1:0.0.0.0/0
dmz (ipv4)
eth3:0.0.0.0/0
vpn (ipv4)
tun+:0.0.0.0/0
In the above output, "eth1:0.0.0.0/0" was dynamically added to the
'loc' zone. As part of this change, "shorewall delete" will only
delete entries that have been added dynamically. In earlier
versions, any entry could be deleted although the ruleset was only
changed by deleting entries that had been added dynamically.
13) The 'shorewall version' command now lists the version of the
installed compiler(s):
gateway:/bulk/backup # shorewall version
4.0.0-Beta1
Shorewall-shell 4.0.0-Beta1
Shorewall-perl 4.0.0-Beta1
gateway:/bulk/backup #
14) The Perl compiler is externalized. Both the compiler.pl program
and the Perl Module interface are documented.
The compiler program is /usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl:
compiler.pl [ <option> ... ] [ <filename> ]
If a <filename> is given, then the configuration will be compiled
output placed in the named file. If <filename> is not given, then
the configuration will simply be syntax checked.
Options are:
-v <verbosity>
--verbosity=<verbosity>
The <verbosity> is a number between 0 and 2 and corresponds to
the VERBOSITY setting in shorewall.conf. This setting controls
the verbosity of the compiler itself.
-e
--export
If given, the configuration will be compiled for export to
another system.
-d <directory>
--directory=<directory>
If this option is omitted, the configuration in /etc/shorewall
is compiled/checked. Otherwise, the configuration in the named
directory will be compiled/checked.
-t
--timestamp
If given, each progress message issued by the compiler and by
the compiled program will be timestamped.
Example (compiles the configuration in the current directory
generating a script named 'firewall' and using VERBOSITY
2).
/usr/share/shorewall-perl/compiler.pl -v 2 -d . firewall
Note: For compatibility with Shorewall 3.4.2 and later 3.4
releases, options not passed on the run-line get their values from
environmental variables:
Option Variable
--verbosity VERBOSE
--export EXPORT
--directory SHOREWALL_DIR
--timestamp TIMESTAMP
The Perl Module is externalized as follows:
use lib '/usr/share/shorewall-perl';
use Shorewall::Compiler;
compiler $filename, $directory, $verbose, $options
The arguments to the compiler function are as follows:
$filename - Name of the compiled script to be created.
If the arguments evaluates to false, the
configuration is syntax checked
$directory - The directory containing the configuration.
If passed as '', then /etc/shorewall/ is assumed.
$verbose - The verbosity level (0-2).
$options - A bitmap of options. Shorewall::Compiler
exports two constants to help building this
argument:
EXPORT = 0x01
TIMESTAMP = 0x02
The compiler raises an exception with 'die' if it encounters an
error; $@ contains the 'ERROR' messages describing the problem.
The compiler function can be called repeatedly with different
inputs.
15) When TC_ENABLED=Internal, Shorewall-perl now validates classids in
the MARK/CLASSIFY column of /etc/shorewall/tcrules against the
classes generated by /etc/shorewall/tcclasses.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
P R E R E Q U I S I T E S
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Perl (I use Perl 5.8.8 but other versions should work fine)
- Perl Cwd Module
- Perl File::Basename Module
- Perl File::Temp Module
- Perl Getopt::Long Module
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
U S I N G T H E N E W C O M P I L E R
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you only install one compiler, then that compiler will be used.
If you install both compilers, then the compiler actually used depends
on the SHOREWALL_COMPILER setting in shorewall.conf.
The value of this new option can be either 'perl' or 'shell'.
If you add 'SHOREWALL_COMPILER=perl' to /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
then by default, the new compiler will be used on the system. If you
add it to shorewall.conf in a separate directory (such as a
Shorewall-lite export directory) then the new compiler will only be
used when you compile from that directory.
If you only install one compiler, it is suggested that you do not set
SHOREWALL_COMPILER.
You can also select the compiler to use on the command line using the
'C option:
'-C shell' means use the shell compiler
'-C perl' means use the perl compiler
The -C option overrides the setting in shorewall.conf.
Example:
shorewall restart -C perl
Regardless of the setting of SHOREWALL_COMPILER, there is one change in
Shorewall operation that is triggered simply by installing
shorewall-perl. Your params file will be processed during compilation
with the shell's '-a' option which causes any variables that you set
or create in that file to be automatically exported. Since the params
file is processed before shorewall.conf, using -a insures that the
settings of your params variables are available to the new compiler
should its use be specified in shorewall.conf.
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