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Shorewall 3.1.5
Note to users upgrading from Shorewall 2.x or 3.0
Most problems associated with upgrades come from two causes:
- The user didn't read and follow the migration considerations in these
release notes.
- The user mis-handled the /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf file during
upgrade. Shorewall is designed to allow the default behavior of
the product to evolve over time. To make this possible, the design
assumes that you will not replace your current shorewall.conf file
during upgrades. If you feel absolutely compelled to have the latest
comments and options in your shorewall.conf then you must proceed
carefully.
While you are at it, if you have a file named /etc/shorewall/rfc1918 then
please check that file. If it has addresses listed that are NOT in one of
these three ranges, then please rename the file to
/etc/shorewall/rfc1918.old.
10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255
172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255
192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255
Please see the "Migration Considerations" below for additional upgrade
information.
Problems Corrected in 3.1.5
1) Compilation has been speeded up by 10-15%.
2) Specifying a GATEWAY IP address in /etc/shorewall/providers no longer
causes "shorewall [re]start to fail".
Other changes in 3.1.5
1) Synonyms have been removed from the /sbin/shorewall command set. The
'generate' and 'reload' command have been removed. The 'reload' command
has also been removed from the program generated by 'compile'.
Migration Considerations:
1) A number of macros have been split into two. The macros affected are:
IMAP LDAP NNTP POP3 SMTP
Each of these macros now handles only traffic on the native (plaintext)
port. There is a corresponding macro with S added to the end of the
name for the SSL version of the same protocol. Thus each macro results
in the insertion of only one port per invocation.
The Web macro has not been split, but two new macros, HTTP and HTTPS have
been created. The Web macro is deprecated in favour of these new macros,
and may be removed from future Shorewall releases.
These changes have been made to ensure no unexpected ports are opened due
to the use of macros.
2) In previous Shorewall releases, DNAT and REDIRECT rules supported a
special syntax for exclusion of a subnet from the effect of the rule.
Example:
Z2 is a subzone of Z1:
DNAT Z1!Z2 loc:192.168.1.4 ...
That syntax has never worked correctly when Z2 is a dynamic zone.
Furthermore, now that Shorewall supports exclusion lists the capability
is redundant since the above rule can now be written in the form:
DNAT Z1:!<list of exclusions> loc:192.168.1.4 ...
Beginning with Shorewall 3.2.0, the special exclusion syntax will no
longer be supported.
New Features:
1) A new 'shorewall compile' command has been added.
shorewall compile [ -v ] [ -q ] [ -e ] [ <config directory> ] <script
file>
where:
-v and -q are described elsewhere in this document.
-e Generates an error if the configuration uses
an option that would prevent the generated
script from running on a system other than
where the 'compile' command is running (see
additional consideration a) below).
Also allows the generated script to run
on a system without Shorewall installed.
<config directory> Is an optional directory to be searched for
configuration files prior to those listed
in CONFIG_DIR in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
<script file> Is the name of the output file.
The 'compile' command processes the configuration and generates a
script file which may then be executed (either directly or using the
'shorewall restore' command) to configure the firewall.
The generated script contains error checking and will terminate if an
important command fails. Before terminating:
a) The script will check for the existence of the restore script
specified by the RESTOREFILE variable in shorewall.conf. If that
restore script exists, it is executed.
b) If the restore script doesn't exist but Shorewall appears to be
installed on the system, an "/sbin/shorewall stop" command is executed.
Some additional considerations:
a) It is possible to run 'compile' on one system and then run the
generated script on another system but there are certain
limitations.
1) The same version of Shorewall must be running on the remote system
unless you use the "-e" option when you compile the script.
2) The 'detectnets' interface option is not allowed.
b) If you have extension scripts, they may need modification. Some of
the scripts will be run at compile time, rather than when the
generated script is executed. The standard functions like
'run_iptables' and 'log_rule_limit' will write the iptables command
to the script file rather than executing the command. As always, you
can check $COMMAND to determine which shorewall command is being
executed.
Extension Scripts that are run at compile time rather than at
run-time are:
- params
- init
- continue
- initdone
- start
- started
- All scripts associated with a given chain such as Action
chains
If you need to interject run-time code into the generated script then
you need to write it to file descriptor 3. Here is an example of creating
tap device tap0 and adding it to bridge xenbr0; the text will be indented
to line up with the surrounding text:
cat >&3 << __EOF__
${INDENT}if ! qt /sbin/ip link ls dev tap0; then
${INDENT} /usr/sbin/openvpn --mktun --dev tap0
${INDENT} /sbin/ip link set dev tap0 up
${INDENT} /sbin/brctl addif xenbr0 tap0
${INDENT}fi
__EOF__
This results in the following code in the script:
if ! qt /sbin/ip link ls dev tap0; then
/usr/sbin/openvpn --mktun --dev tap0
/sbin/ip link set dev tap0 up
/sbin/brctl addif xenbr0 tap0
fi
(Yes -- there is an extra blank line at the end)
If you need to expand variables in the generated text, be sure to escape
the '$' symbol.
Example:
cat >&3 << __EOF__
${INDENT}addr=\$(ip -f inet addr show $interface 2> /dev/null | grep inet | head -n1)
${INDENT}if [ -n "\$addr" ]; then
${INDENT} addr=\$(echo \$addr | sed 's/inet //;s/\/.*//;s/ peer.*//')
${INDENT} for network in 10.0.0.0/8 176.16.0.0/12 192.168.0.0/16; do
${INDENT} if in_network \$addr \$network; then
${INDENT} startup_error "The 'norfc1918' option has been specified on an interface with an RFC 1918 address. Interface:$interface"
${INDENT} fi
${INDENT} done
${INDENT}fi
__EOF__
Compilation generates a complete program. This program is suitable for
installation into /etc/init.d and, when generated with the "-e" option,
can serve as your firewall on a system that doesn't even have Shorewall
installed.
The generated program supports the following commands:
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] start
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] stop
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] clear
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] restart
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] status
<program> [ -q ] [ -v ] [ -n ] version
The "shorewall start" and "shorewall restart" commands have been
rewritten to use compilation. They both compile a temporary program
then run it. This results in a slightly longer elapsed time than the
similar commands required under earlier versions of Shorewall but new
connections are blocked for a much smaller percentage of that time.
Under Shorewall 3.1.5, "shorewall restart" takes roughly 16.5 seconds
on my firewall:
real 0m16.599s
user 0m6.292s
sys 0m9.885s
Of the elapsed 16.5 seconds, new connections are disabled less than
3.5 seconds. Here are some numbers for comparison:
A) shorewall restart (Shorewall 3.0.4)
real    0m17.540s
user    0m5.956s
sys     0m10.737s
B) ./foo restart # foo created using "shorewall compile"
real 0m3.297s
user 0m1.444s
sys 0m1.728s
C) shorewall restore (Shorewall 3.0.4) # Restores from file generated by
# "shorewall save"
real    0m1.164s
user    0m0.556s
sys     0m0.608s
D) shorewall restore (shorewall 3.1.5)
real 0m1.637s
user 0m0.728s
sys 0m0.584s
The time difference between B and C reflects the difference between
"iptables-restore" and multiple executions of "iptables". The time
difference between C and D results from the fact that the "restore"
command in Shorewall 3.1 runs the compiled program in a way that
turns all iptables commands into no-ops then invokes
iptables-restore. The system is a 1.4Ghz Celeron with 512MB RAM.
As a final part of this change, the "check" command now compiles the
current configuration then discards the generated script. So "check"
performs all of the same checks that compile does. Note that there is
still no guarantee that the generated script won't encounter run-time
errors.
2) The /etc/shorewall/maclist file has a new column layout. The first column
is now DISPOSITION. This column determines what to do with matching
packets and can have the value ACCEPT or DROP (if MACLIST_TABLE=filter, it
can also contain REJECT). This change is upward compatible so your existing
maclist file can still be used.
ACCEPT, DROP and REJECT may be optionally followed by a log level to
cause the packet to be logged.
3) Shorewall has always been very noisy (lots of messages). No more.
You set the default level of verbosity using the VERBOSITY option in
shorewall.conf. If you don't set it (as would be the case of you use your
old shorewall.conf file) then VERBOSITY defaults to a value of 2 which is
the old default. A value of 1 suppresses some of the output (like the old
-q option did) while a value of 0 makes Shorewall almost silent.
The value specified in the 3.2 shorewall.conf is 1. So you can make
Shorewall as verbose as previously using a single -v and you can make it
silent by using a single -q.
If the default is set at 2, you can still make a command silent by using
two "q"s (e.g., shorewall -qq restart).
In summary, each "q" subtracts one from VERBOSITY while each "v" adds one
to VERBOSITY.
The "shorewall show log", "shorewall logwatch" and "shorewall dump"
commands require VERBOSE to be greater than or equal to 3 to display MAC
addresses.This is consistent with the previous implementation which
required a single -v to enable MAC display but means that if you set
VERBOSITY=0 in shorewall.conf, then you will need to include -vvv in
commands that display log records in order to have MACs displayed.