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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.2//EN"
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
<article>
<!--$Id$-->
<articleinfo>
<title>Shorewall and a Simple Bridge</title>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Tom</firstname>
<surname>Eastep</surname>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
<copyright>
<year>2004</year>
<year>2005</year>
<year>2006</year>
<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
</copyright>
<legalnotice>
<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
License</ulink></quote>.</para>
</legalnotice>
</articleinfo>
<section>
<title>Background</title>
<para>Systems where Shorewall runs normally function as
<firstterm>routers</firstterm>. In the context of the Open System
Interconnect (OSI) reference model, a router operates at layer 3.
Shorewall may also be deployed on a GNU Linux System that acts as a
<firstterm>bridge</firstterm>. Bridges are layer-2 devices in the OSI
model (think of a bridge as an ethernet switch).</para>
<para>Some differences between routers and bridges are:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>Routers determine packet destination based on the destination IP
address while bridges route traffic based on the destination MAC
address in the ethernet frame.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>As a consequence of the first difference, routers can be
connected to more than one IP network while a bridge may be part of
only a single network.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A router cannot forward broadcast packets while a bridge
can.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section>
<title>Application</title>
<para>There are cases where you want to create a bridge to join two or
more LAN segments and you don't need to restrict the traffic between those
segments. This is the environment that is described in this
article.</para>
<para>If you do need to restrict traffic through the bridge, please refer
to the <ulink url="bridge.html">Shorewall Bridge/Firewall
documentation</ulink>. Also please refer to that documentation for
information about how to create a bridge.</para>
<para>The following diagram shows a firewall for two bridged LAN
segments.</para>
<graphic align="center" fileref="images/SimpleBridge.png" valign="middle" />
<para>This is fundamentally the Two-interface Firewall described in the
<ulink url="two-interface.htm">Two-interface Quickstart Guide</ulink>. The
bridge-specific changes are restricted to the
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename> file.</para>
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net eth0 detect ...
loc <emphasis role="bold">br0</emphasis> 10.0.1.255 <emphasis
role="bold">routeback</emphasis>,...</programlisting>
<para>So the key points here are:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">loc</emphasis> interface is <filename
class="devicefile">br0</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Neither <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename> nor
<filename class="devicefile">eth2</filename> have IP addresses and
neither are mentioned in the Shorewall configuration.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The <emphasis role="bold">routeback</emphasis> option is
specified for <filename class="devicefile">br0</filename>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The default gateway for hosts in the local segments will be
10.0.1.254 — the IP address of the bridge itself.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
</article>