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<h1 align="center"><font color="#ffffff">Shorewall Support Guide<img
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<h2>Before Reporting a Problem or Asking a Question<br>
</h2>
There are a number of sources of Shorewall information. Please
try these before you post.
<ul>
<li>Shorewall versions
earlier that 1.3.0 are no longer supported.<br>
</li>
<li>More than half of the questions posted on the support
list have answers directly accessible from the <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm#Documentation">Documentation
Index</a><br>
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm">FAQ</a>
has solutions to more than 20 common problems.
</li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/troubleshoot.htm">Troubleshooting</a>
Information contains a number of tips to
help you solve common problems. </li>
<li>
The <a href="http://www.shorewall.net/errata.htm"> Errata</a>
has links to download updated components. </li>
<li>
The Site and Mailing List Archives search facility can
locate documents and posts about similar problems:
</li>
</ul>
<h2>Site and Mailing List Archive Search</h2>
<blockquote>
<form method="post"
action="http://lists.shorewall.net/cgi-bin/htsearch"> <font size="-1"> Match:
<select name="method">
<option value="and">All </option>
<option value="or">Any </option>
<option value="boolean">Boolean </option>
</select>
Format:
<select name="format">
<option value="builtin-long">Long </option>
<option value="builtin-short">Short </option>
</select>
Sort by:
<select name="sort">
<option value="score">Score </option>
<option value="time">Time </option>
<option value="title">Title </option>
<option value="revscore">Reverse Score </option>
<option value="revtime">Reverse Time </option>
<option value="revtitle">Reverse Title </option>
</select>
</font><input type="hidden" name="config"
value="htdig"><input type="hidden" name="restrict" value=""><font
size="-1"> Include Mailing List Archives:
<select size="1" name="exclude">
<option value="">Yes</option>
<option value="[http://lists.shorewall.net/pipermail/.*]">No</option>
</select>
</font><br>
Search: <input type="text" size="30"
name="words" value=""> <input type="submit" value="Search"><br>
</form>
</blockquote>
<h2>Problem Reporting Guidelines<br>
</h2>
<ul>
<li>Please remember we only know
what is posted in your message. Do not leave out any information
that appears to be correct, or was mentioned in a previous
post. There have been countless posts by people who were sure
that some part of their configuration was correct when it actually
contained a small error. We tend to be skeptics where detail
is lacking.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Please keep in mind that
you're asking for <strong>free</strong> technical
support. Any help we offer is an act of generosity, not an obligation.
Try to make it easy for us to help you. Follow good, courteous
practices in writing and formatting your e-mail. Provide details that
we need if you expect good answers. <em>Exact quoting </em> of
error messages, log entries, command output, and other output is better
than a paraphrase or summary.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>
Please don't describe your environment and then
ask us to send you custom configuration files.
We're here to answer your questions but we can't
do your job for you.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>When reporting a problem,
<strong>ALWAYS</strong> include this information:</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li>the exact version of Shorewall
you are running.<br>
<br>
<b><font color="#009900">shorewall
version</font><br>
</b> <br>
</li>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>the complete, exact output
of<br>
<br>
<font color="#009900"><b>ip
addr show<br>
<br>
</b></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>the complete, exact output
of<br>
<br>
<font color="#009900"><b>ip
route show<br>
</b></font></li>
</ul>
<ul>
</ul>
</ul>
<ul>
<ul>
<li><big><font color="#ff0000"><u><i><big><b>THIS IS
IMPORTANT!</b></big></i></u></font><big><big><big> </big>If your problem
is that some type of connection to/from or through your firewall isn't working
then please perform the following four steps:</big></big></big><br>
<br>
1. <b><font color="#009900">/sbin/shorewall reset</font></b><br>
<br>
2. Try making the connection that is failing.<br>
<br>
3.<b><font color="#009900"> /sbin/shorewall
status &gt; /tmp/status.txt</font></b><br>
<br>
4. Post the /tmp/status.txt file as an attachment
(you may compress it if you like).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>the exact wording of any <code
style="color: green; font-weight: bold;">ping</code> failure responses<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>If you installed Shorewall using one of the QuickStart
Guides, please indicate which one. <br>
<br>
</li>
<li><b>If you are running Shorewall under Mandrake using
the Mandrake installation of Shorewall, please say so.<br>
<br>
</b></li>
</ul>
<li>As a general matter, please <strong>do not edit the diagnostic
information</strong> in an attempt to conceal your IP address,
netmask, nameserver addresses, domain name, etc. These aren't
secrets, and concealing them often misleads us (and 80% of the time,
a hacker could derive them anyway from information contained
in the SMTP headers of your post).<br>
<br>
<strong></strong></li>
<li>Do you see any "Shorewall" messages
("<b><font color="#009900">/sbin/shorewall show log</font></b>")
when you exercise the function that is giving you problems?
If so, include the message(s) in your post along with a copy of
your /etc/shorewall/interfaces file.<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>Please include any of the Shorewall configuration
files (especially the /etc/shorewall/hosts file
if you have modified that file) that you think are
relevant. If you include /etc/shorewall/rules, please include
/etc/shorewall/policy as well (rules are meaningless unless
one also knows the policies).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li>If an error occurs when you try to
"<font color="#009900"><b>shorewall start</b></font>", include
a trace (See the <a
href="http://www.shorewall.net/troubleshoot.htm">Troubleshooting</a>
section for instructions).<br>
<br>
</li>
<li><b>The list server limits posts to 120kb so
don't post GIFs of your network layout,
etc. to the Mailing List -- your post will be rejected.</b></li>
</ul>
<blockquote> The author gratefully acknowleges that the above list was
heavily plagiarized from the excellent LEAF document by <i>Ray</i>
<em>Olszewski</em> found at <a
href="http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html">http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html</a>.<br>
</blockquote>
<h2>When using the mailing list, please post in plain text</h2>
<blockquote> A growing number of MTAs serving list subscribers are rejecting
all HTML traffic. At least one MTA has gone so far as to blacklist
shorewall.net "for continuous abuse" because it has been my policy
to allow HTML in list posts!!<br>
<br>
I think that blocking all
HTML is a Draconian way to control spam and that the
ultimate losers here are not the spammers but the list subscribers
whose MTAs are bouncing all shorewall.net mail. As one list
subscriber wrote to me privately "These e-mail admin's need
to get a <i>(expletive deleted)</i> life instead of trying to rid
the planet of HTML based e-mail". Nevertheless, to allow subscribers
to receive list posts as must as possible, I have now configured
the list server at shorewall.net to strip all HTML from outgoing
posts.<br>
<br>
<big><font color="#cc0000"><b>If you run your own outgoing mail server
and it doesn't have a valid DNS PTR record, your email won't reach the lists
unless/until the postmaster notices that your posts are being rejected.
To avoid this problem, you should configure your MTA to forward posts to
shorewall.net through an MTA that <u>does</u> have a valid PTR record (such
as the one at your ISP). </b></font></big><br>
</blockquote>
<h2>Where to Send your Problem Report or to Ask for Help</h2>
<blockquote>
<h4>If you run Shorewall under Bering -- <span
style="font-weight: 400;">please post your question or problem
to the <a
href="mailto:leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net">LEAF Users mailing
list</a>.</span></h4>
<b>If you run Shorewall under
MandrakeSoft Multi Network Firewall (MNF) and you have
not purchased an MNF license from MandrakeSoft then you can
post non MNF-specific Shorewall questions to the </b><a
href="mailto:shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net">Shorewall users mailing
list</a>. <b>Do not expect to get free MNF support on the list</b>
<p>Otherwise, please post your question or problem to the <a
href="mailto:shorewall-users@lists.shorewall.net">Shorewall users mailing
list</a> .</p>
<p> To Subscribe to the mailing list go to <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users">http://lists.shorewall.net/mailman/listinfo/shorewall-users</a>
.<br>
</p>
</blockquote>
<p>For information on other Shorewall mailing lists, go to <a
href="http://lists.shorewall.net">http://lists.shorewall.net</a><br>
</p>
<p align="left"><font size="2">Last Updated 7/9/2003 - Tom Eastep</font></p>
<p align="left"><font face="Trebuchet MS"><a href="copyright.htm"> <font
size="2">Copyright</font> <20> <font size="2">2001, 2002, 2003 Thomas M. Eastep.</font></a></font><br>
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