Shorewall 3.2.5 is now available. Beginning with this release, there will be a single set of Release Notes and a single changelog; these release documents are included in both the Shorewall and Shorewall Lite packeges.
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Shorewall 3.2.5
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
If you have a file named /etc/shorewall/modules, please remove
it. The default modules file is now located in /usr/share/shorewall.
Please see the "Migration Considerations" below for additional upgrade
information.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.5
1) Entries such as the following in /etc/shorewall/masq generate a
run-time error:
eth0 eth1!192.168.1.12 206.124.146.176
Omitting the exclusion (!192.168.1.12) avoids the error.
2) Previously, the 'provider' portion of the packet mark was not being
cleared after routing for traffic that originates on the firewall
itself.
3) In prior releases, it was not possible to mark an outgoing packet
with a high mark (HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes) when the packet originated
on the firewall itself.
4) The detected capabilities were not displayed by 'shorewall dump'
when the effective VERBOSITY was less than 2.
Other changes in 3.2.5
1) For users whose kernel and iptables have Extended MARK Target
support, it is now possible to logically AND or OR a value into the
current packet mark by preceding the mark value (and optional mask)
with an ampersand ("&") or vertical bar ("|") respectively.
Example: To logically OR the value 4 into the mark value for
packets from 192.168.1.1:
#MARK SOURCE
|4 192.168.1.1
2) A new macro (macro.RDP) has been added for Microsoft Remote
Desktop. This macro was contributed by Tuomo Soini.
3) A new 'maclog' extension file has been added. This file is
processed just before logging based on the setting of
MACLIST_LOG_LEVEL is done. When the script is copyied at compile
time, the CHAIN variable will contain the name of the chain where
rules should be inserted. Remember that if you have specified
MACLIST_TABLE=mangle, then your run_iptables commands should
include "-t mangle".
4) Beginning with this release, Shorewall and Shorewall lite will
share the same change log and release notes.
Migration Considerations:
1) If you are upgrading from Shorewall 2.x, it is essential that you
read the Shorewall 3.0.8 (or later) release notes:
http://www.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/3.0/shorewall-3.0.8/releasenotes.txt
2) 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.
3) In previous Shorewall releases, DNAT and REDIRECT rules supported
a special syntax for exclusion of a sub-zone from the effect of
the rule.
Example:
Z2 is a subzone of Z1:
DNAT Z1!Z2 loc:192.168.1.4 ...
That feature 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.
4) Important if you use the QUEUE target.
In the /etc/shorewall/rules file and in actions, you may now specify
'tcp:syn' in the PROTO column. 'tcp:syn' is equivalent to 'tcp'
but also requires that the SYN flag is set and the RST, FIN and
ACK flags be off ("--syn" is added to the iptables rule).
As part of this change, Shorewall no longer adds the "--syn" option
to TCP rules that specify QUEUE as their target.
5) Extension Scripts may require change
In previous releases, extension scripts were executed during [re]start
by using the Bourne Shell "." operator. In addition to executing
commands during [re]start, these scripts had to "save" the
commands to be executed during "shorewall restore".
This clumsiness has been eliminated in Shorewall 3.2. In Shorewall 3.2,
extension scripts are copied in-line into the compiled program and are
executed in-line during "start", "restart" and "restore". This
applies to all extension scripts except those associated with a
chain or action -- those extension scripts continue to be processed
at compile time.
This new approach has two implications for existing scripts.
a) It is no longer necessary to save the commands; so functions like
'save_command', 'run_and_save_command' and
'ensure_and_save_command' need no longer be called. For
convenience, the generated program will supply functions with
these names:
save_command() - does nothing
run_and_save_command() - runs the passed command
ensure_and_save_command() - runs the passed command and
stops/restores the firewall if the
command fails.
These functions should provide for transparent migration of
scripts that use them until you can get around to eliminating
their use completely.
b) When the extension script is copied into the compiled program,
it is indented to line up with the surrounding code. If you
have 'awk' installed on your system, the Shorewall compiler
will correctly handle line continuation (last character on the
line = "\"). If you do not have awk, it will not be possible
to use line-continuation in your extension scripts.
In no case is it possible to continue a quoted string over
multiple lines without having additional whitespace inserted
into the string.
6) Beginning with this release, the way in which packet marking in the
PREROUTING chain interracts with the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers has changed in two ways:
a) Packets arriving on a tracked interface are now passed to the
PREROUTING marking chain so that they may be marked with a
mark other than the 'track' mark (the connection still retains
the 'track' mark).
b) When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, you can still clear the mark on packets
in the PREROUTING chain (i.e., you can specify a mark value of
zero).
7) Previously, CLASSIFY tcrules were always processed out of the
POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with this release, they are processed
out of the POSTROUTING chain *except* when the SOURCE is
$FW[:<address>] in which case the rule is processed out of the
OUTPUT chain.
With correctly-coded rulesets, this change should have no
effect. Users having incorrectly-coded tcrules may need to change
them.
Example:
#MARK/ SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE
#CLASSIFY PORTS(S) PORT(S)
1:110 $FW eth3 tcp - 22
While the user may have expected this rule to only affect traffic
from the firewall itself, the rule was really equivalent to this one:
#MARK/ SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST SOURCE
#CLASSIFY PORTS(S) PORT(S)
1:110 0.0.0.0/0 eth3 tcp - 22
So after this change, the second rule will be required rather than
the first if that is what was really wanted.
8) The 'modules' file is now located in /usr/share/shorewall/. If you
have an unmodified file /etc/shorewall/modules then please remove
it if your package manager has not already done so. If you have
modified the file to add additional modules, it should continue to
work fine with this version of Shorewall.
/usr/share/shorewall/modules contains a *lot* of modules. If you
use module autoloading (which non-embedded Linux distributions
do), then you can improve your "shorewall [re]start" time by
trimming all but the helper modules from the file. To do that,
create the file /etc/shorewall/modules with the following entries:
loadmodule ip_conntrack_amanda
loadmodule ip_conntrack_ftp
loadmodule ip_conntrack_irc
loadmodule ip_conntrack_netbios_ns
loadmodule ip_conntrack_pptp
loadmodule ip_conntrack_tftp
loadmodule ip_nat_amanda
loadmodule ip_nat_ftp
loadmodule ip_nat_irc
loadmodule ip_nat_pptp
loadmodule ip_nat_snmp_basic
loadmodule ip_nat_tftp
New Features:
1) Shorewall has always been very noisy (lots of messages). No longer.
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 if you
use your old shorewall.conf file) then VERBOSITY defaults to a
value of 2 which results in behavior compatible with previous
Shorewall versions. A value of 1 suppresses some of the output
(like the old -q option did) while a value of 0 makes Shorewall
almost silent. A value of -1 suppresses all output except warning
and error messages.
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 almost silent by using a single -q.
If VERBOSITY is set at 2, you can still make a command nearly
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 VERBOSITY 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.
To make the display of MAC addresses less cumbersome, a '-m'
option has been added to the "show" and logwatch commands:
shorewall show -m log
shorewall logwatch -m
2) A new 'shorewall compile' command has been added.
shorewall compile [ -e ] [ <config directory> ] <script file>
where:
-e Allows the generated script to run
on a system with Shorewall Lite installed.
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).
<config directory> Is an optional directory to be searched for
configuration files prior to those listed
in CONFIG_PATH 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 to configure the firewall.
The generated script supports the following commands:
start - starts the firewall
stop - stops the firewall
clear - clears the firewall (removes all iptables rules)
restart - restarts the firewall
status - displays the firewall status
version - displays the version of shorewall used to create the
script
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, the equivalent of an
"/sbin/shorewall stop" command is executed.
Some additional considerations:
a) When you run 'compile' on one system and then run the generated script
on another system under Shorewall Lite, there are certain limitations.
1) The 'detectnets' interface option is not allowed.
2) DYNAMIC_ZONES=Yes is not allowed.
3) You must supply the file /etc/shorewall/capabilities to provide
the compiler with knowledge of the capabilities of the system
where the script is to be run. See below.
4) If your /etc/shorewall/params file contains code other than simple
assignment statements with contant values, then you should move
that code to /etc/shorewall/init. That way, the code will be
executed on the target system when the compiled script is run and
not on the local system at compile time.
b) If you run the "shorewall compile" or "shorewall check" commands under
a user other than 'root', then you must supply
/etc/shorewall/capabilities.
c) To aid in building /etc/shorewall/capabilities, a 'shorecap' program
is provided in the Shorewall Lite package and is installed in
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/shorecap when you install Shorewall Lite.
For instructions about running shorecap, see the comments at the
top of the program file (it's a simple shell script).
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.
If an error is found during the compilation phase, /sbin/shorewall
terminates and the Shorewall state is unchanged.
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 and writes the compiled output to /dev/null. So
"check" performs all of the same validation 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.
4) In macro files, you can now use the reserved words SOURCE and DEST
in the columns of the same names. When Shorewall expands the
macro, it will substitute the SOURCE from the macro invocation for
SOURCE and the DEST from the invocation for DEST. This allows you
to write macros that act in both directions (from source to destination
and from destination to source).
Example:
macro.FOO:
PARAM SOURCE DEST udp 500
PARAM DEST SOURCE udp 500
/etc/shorewall/rules:
FOO/ACCEPT fw net
Resulting rules:
ACCEPT fw net udp 500
ACCEPT net fw udp 500
This new feature has been used to implement the SMBBI macro.
SMBBI is the same as the SMB macro with the exception that
it passes SMB traffic in both directions whereas SMB only
passes that traffic in one direction.
5) In the /etc/shorewall/rules file and in actions, you may now specify
'tcp:syn' in the PROTO column. 'tcp:syn' is equivalent to 'tcp' but also
requires that the SYN flag is set and the RST, FIN and ACK flags be
off ("--syn" is added to the iptables rule).
As part of this change, Shorewall no longer adds the "--syn" option
to TCP rules that specify QUEUE as their target.
6) /sbin/shorewall now supports a "-t" option that causes all progress
messages to be timestamped.
Example (VERBOSITY=0 in shorewall.conf):
gateway:/etc/shorewall # shorewall -t restart
07:08:51 Compiling...
07:09:05 Shorewall configuration compiled to /var/lib/shorewall/.restart
07:09:05 Restarting Shorewall....
07:09:08 done.
gateway:/etc/shorewall #
7) A 'refreshed' extension script has been added -- it is executed after
"shorewall refresh" has finished.
8) Two new dynamic blacklisting commands have been added:
logdrop -- like 'drop' but causes the dropped packets to be logged.
logreject -- like 'reject' but causes the rejected packets to be
logged.
Packets are logged at the BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL if one was specified at the
last "shorewall [re]start"; otherwise, they are logged at the 'info'
log level.
9) A new IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option has been added to shorewall.conf. When
this option is set to "Yes", it causes subzones to be treated differently
with respect to policies.
Subzones are defined by following their name with ":" and a list of parent
zones (in /etc/shorewall/zones). Normally, you want to have a set of
special rules for the subzone and if a connection doesn't match any of
those subzone-specific rules then you want the parent zone rules and
policies to be applied. With IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, that happens
automatically.
If IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=No or if IMPLICIT_CONTINUE is not set, then
subzones are not subject to this special treatment.
With IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes, an implicit CONTINUE policy may be overridden
by including an explicit policy (one that does not specify "all" in either
the SOURCE or the DEST columns).
Example:
/etc/shorewall/zones:
prnt ipv4
chld:prnt ipv4
Traffic to/from the 'chld' zone will first pass through the applicable
'chld' rules and if none of those rules match then it will be passed through
the appropriate 'prnt' rules. If the connection request does not match
any of the 'prnt' rules then the relevant 'prnt' policy is applied.
If you want the fw->chld policy to be ACCEPT, simply add this entry to
/etc/shorewall/policy:
$FW chld ACCEPT
Traffic from all other zones to 'chld' will be subject to the implicit
CONTINUE policy.
10) Shorewall now includes support for explicit routing rules when the
/etc/shorewall/providers file is used. A new file,
/etc/shorewall/route_rules can be used to add routing rules based on
packet source and/or destination.
The file has the following columns:
SOURCE(optonal) An ip address (network or host) that
matches the source IP address in a packet.
May also be specified as an interface
name optionally followed by ":" and an
address. If the define 'lo' is specified,
the packet must originate from the firewall
itself.
DEST(optional) An ip address (network or host) that
matches the destination IP address in a packet.
If you choose to omit either SOURCE or DEST,
place "-" in the column. Note that you
may not omit both SOURCE and DEST.
PROVIDER The provider to route the traffic through.
May be expressed either as the provider name
or the provider number. You may also specify
the 'main' routing table here, either by
name or by number (254).
PRIORITY
The rule's priority which determines the order
in which the rules are processed.
1000-1999 Before Shorewall-generated
'MARK' rules
11000- 11999 After 'MARK' rules but before
Shorewall-generated rules for
provider interfaces.
26000-26999 After provider interface rules but
before 'default' rule.
Rules with equal priority are applied in
the order in which they appear in the file.
Example 1: You want all traffic coming in on eth1 to be routed to the ISP1
provider:
#PROVIDER PRIORITY SOURCE DEST
ISP1 1000 eth1
Example 2: You use OpenVPN (routed setup /tunX) in combination with multiple
providers. In this case you have to set up a rule to ensure that
the OpenVPN traffic is routed back through the tunX interface(s)
rather than through any of the providers. 10.8.0.0/24 is the
subnet choosen in your OpenVPN configuration (server 10.8.0.0
255.255.255.0)
#SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY
- 10.8.0.0/24 main 1000
11) Prior to now, it has not been possible to use connection marking in
/etc/shorewall/tcrules if you have a multi-ISP configuration that uses the
'track' option.
Beginning with this release, you may now set HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in
shorewall.conf to effectively divide the packet mark and connection mark
into two 8-bit mark fields.
When you do this:
a) The MARK field in the providers file must have a value that is
less than 65536 and that is a multiple of 256 (using hex
representation, the values are 0x0100-0xFF00 with the low-order
8 bits being zero).
b) You may only set those mark values in the PREROUTING chain.
c) Marks used for traffic shaping must still be in the range of 1-255
and may still not be set in the PREROUTING chain.
d) When you SAVE or RESTORE in tcrules, only the TC mark value is
saved or restored. Shorewall handles saving and restoring the
routing (provider) marks.
12) A TOS column has been added to /etc/shorewall/tcrules. This allows marking
based on the contents of the TOS field in the packet header.
13) Beginning with this release, the way in which packet marking in the
PREROUTING chain interracts with the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers
has changed in two ways:
a) Packets *arriving* on a tracked interface are now passed to the
PREROUTING
marking chain so that they may be marked with a mark other than the
'track' mark (the connection still retains the 'track' mark).
b) When HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes, you can still clear the mark on packets
in the PREROUTING chain (i.e., you can specify a mark value of zero).
14) Shorewall will now attempt to detect the MTU of devices listed in
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices and will use the detected MTU in setting
up traffic shaping.
15) In /etc/shorewall/rules, the values "all-" and "all+-" may now be
used for zone names. "all-" means "All zones except the firewall";
"all+-" means "All zones except the firewall" and intra-zone
traffic is included.
16) Shorewall now checks to see if devices in /etc/shorewall/tcdevices
exist. If a device does not exist, a warning message is issued and
that device's entries in /etc/shorewall/tcclasses are ignored. This
applies to "shorewall start", "shorewall restart" and "shorewall
refresh".
17) "load" and "reload" commands have been added. These commands allow
a non-root user with ssh access to a remote system running
Shorewall Lite to compile a firewall script on the local system and
to install that script on the remote system.
Syntax is:
shorewall [re]load [ <directory> ] <system>
If <directory> is omitted, the current working directory is
assumed.
The command is equivalent to:
/sbin/shorewall compile -e <directory> firewall &&\
scp firewall root@<system>:/var/lib/shorewall-lite/ &&\
ssh root@<system> '/sbin/shorewall-lite [re]start' # Note 1
In other words, the configuration in the specified (or defaulted)
directory is compiled to a file called firewall in that
directory. If compilation succeeds, then 'firewall' is copied to the
(usually remote) <system> using scp. If the copy succeeds,
Shorewall Lite on <system> is started or restarted via ssh (
load causes Shorewall Lite to be started and 'reload' causes
Shorewall Lite to be re-started)
Note 1: In Shorewall Lite 3.2.0 RC4, the 'firewall' script has moved
from /usr/share/shorewall-lite/ to /var/lib/shorewall-lite in
packages from shorewall.net. The package maintainers for the
various distributions are free to choose the directory where the
script will be stored under their distribution by altering the
value of LITEDIR in /usr/share/shorewall/configpath. You can run the
"shorewall show config" command to see how your distribution
defines LITEDIR.
Problems corrected in 3.2.1
1) The output formatting of the 'hits' command under BusyBox 1.2.0 has
been corrected.
2) Shorewall no longer requires extended MARK support to use the 'track'
provider option when HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No.
3) The output of the 'hits' command was previously scrambled if
/etc/services contained spaces as column delimiters rather than
tabs.
4) The /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules file was previously just a copy
of /usr/share/shorewall/modules.
5) The version number in the comments at the top of shorewall.conf has
been corrected.
6) The script generated when the -e option is given to the 'compile'
command is setting CONFIG_PATH to the value given in the remote
firewall's shorewall.conf processed at compile time. This is
generally incorrect and results in the inability to load any kernel
modules on the firewall during 'shorewall-lite [re]start'.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.2
1) Previously, the "shorewall stop" command would create empty files
named /nat and /proxyarp.
2) Scripts compiled for export did not support the 'reset' command. As
a result, on firewall systems running Shorewall Lite the command
"shorewall-lite reset" failed.
Other changes in 3.2.2
1) The way in which options in /etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf are
handled has been changed. Previously, problems would occur if
options were set differently in the shorewall.conf file located in
a firewall's export directory on the administrative system and in
/etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf on the firewall system.
To eliminate those problems, both Shorewall and Shorewall Lite have
been modified. Now, settings in /etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf
override settings from the export directory. Any variable not set
(or set to the empty value) in /etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf
will get its value from the shorewall.conf file in the firewall's
export directory (see
http://www.shorewall.conf/CompiledPrograms.html for a description
of "export directories").
The "shorewall compile -e" and "shorewall [re]load" commands now
create two files -- the script file and an auxiliary configuration
file. The name of the auxiliary configuration file is formed by
appending ".conf" to the name of the firewall script. So, the
"[re]load" command now creates both 'firewall' and 'firewall.conf'
and the command copies both files to /var/lib/shorewall-lite/ on
the firewall system.
The shorewall.conf file released with Shorewall Lite now sets no
option values. So by default, the options that the firewall
system will use are determined entirely by the shorewall.conf file
in the export directory.
If you are upgrading from an earlier 3.2 release, I recommend that
you modify your /etc/shorewall-lite/shorewall.conf file(s) to set
all variables to the empty value (e.g., IPTABLES= ). This will
allow your Shorewall Lite installation(s) to conform to the new
option convention. Both the administrative system and the firewalls
must be running 3.2.2 or later and each firewall's configuration
must be recompiled and re-exported for changes to take effect.
2) The 'shorewall show capabilites' command now accepts a '-f' (file)
option (e.g., shorewall show -f capabilities). When '-f' is given,
the output is the same as the output from the 'shorecap' program
that is included in Shorewall Lite and can be used to generate a
capabilities file for use during compilation.
WARNING: The output is only meaningful when the command is run by
root.
3) The manner in which Shorewall determines the presence of the
'physdev match' capability has been modified to accomodate the
upcoming kernel change that will remove much of the functionality
of the match.
4) The install.sh script now supports a -n option:
./install.sh -n
When -n is given, no backup of the current configuration is
performed. This is used primarily by Shorewall developers as it
allows repeated installs of the same version without destroying
the backup of the prior version.
5) The "shorewall [re]load" command(s) now support a -s option:
Example:
shorewall reload -s gateway
The option causes the configuration on the firewall to be saved if
[re]start is successfull.
6) A new 'optional' option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/providers. If this option is specified, if the
interface specified in the INTERFACES column isn't up and
configured with an IPv4 address then a warning message is issued
and the provider is not configured.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.3
1) A problem in 'install.sh' resulted in sandbox violations on
Gentoo and, when Shorewall is installed using an RPM, the problem
caused an incorrect copy of shorewall.conf to be installed in
/usr/share/shorewall/configfiles/.
2) A typo in the functions file caused startup errors when the user's
distribution did not support a true mktemp program (such as
Bering Uclibc). Patch courtesy of Cédric Schieli.
3) Several erroneous references to ip_addr_del() were made in
/var/lib/shorewall/compiler and in the code that it generates.
a) These should have been references to del_ip_addr()
b) One of the calls also had an incorrect parameter list.
4) Previously, "shorewall check -e" would erroneously attempt to
detect interfaces configured for traffic shaping.
5) SUBSYSLOCK functionality has been restored.
6) In prior versions, setting 'mss=' in /etc/shorewall/zones did not
affect traffic to/from the firewall zone. That has been corrected.
7) When /sbin/shorewall was run under BusyBox ash, shell errors would
occur if certain command options were given.
8) Previously, the 'optional' provider option did not detect the case
where the interface was DOWN but still had a configured IP
address. Shorewall was detecting such interfaces as UP and later
'ip replace route' commands would fail.
It should also be clarified that the 'optional' option is intended
to detect cases where a provider interface is in a state that would
cause 'shorewall [re]start' to fail; it is not intended to
determine whether communication is possible using the interface.
9) Previously, the "shorewall add" command would fail with error
messages indicating that the commands "chain_exists" and
"verify_hosts_file" could not be found.
10) Using earlier Shorewall versions, the following sequence of
commands produced inconsistant results:
a) shorewall [re] start
b) Modify /etc/shorewall/tcdevices and/or /etc/shorewall/tcclasses
c) shorewall refresh
d) shorewall save
e) shorewall restore (or reboot and shorewall start -f during boot
up)
After that series of commands, the state of traffic shaping was as
it was after step a) rather than as it was after step c). The fix
involved re-implementing 'shorewall refresh' as a compile/execute
procedure similar to [re]start. While the entire configuration is
recompiled, only ecn, blacklisting, tcrules and traffic control
will be updated in the running configuration.
11) DNAT rules generated under DETECT_DNAT_IPADDRS=Yes may have been
incorrect with the result that the rules didn't work at all.
Other changes in 3.2.3
1) A 'shorewall export' command has been added.
shorewall export [ <directory1> ] [EMAIL PROTECTED]<system>:[<directory2>]
If <directory1> is omitted, then the current working directory is
assumed.
Causes the shorewall configuration in <directory1> to be compiled
into a program called '<directory1>/firewall'. If compilation is
successful, the '<directory1>/firewall' script is copied via scp
to the specified <system>.
Example:
shorewall export [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This command would compile the configuration in the current working
directory then copy the 'firewall' (and 'firewall.conf') files to
admin's home directory on system 'gateway'.
2) Normally, Shorewall tries to protect users from themselves by
preventing PREROUTING and OUTPUT tcrules from being applied to
packets that have been marked by the 'track' option in
/etc/shorewall/providers.
If you really know what you are doing and understand packet marking
thoroughly, you can set TC_EXPERT=Yes in shorewall.conf and
Shorewall will not include these cautionary checks.
3) Previously, CLASSIFY tcrules were always processed out of the
POSTROUTING chain. Beginning with this release, they are processed
out of the POSTROUTING chain *except* when the SOURCE is
$FW[:<address>] in which case the rule is processed out of the
OUTPUT chain.
See the Migration Considerations section for further information.
4) Previously, if you specified 'detectnets' on an interface with a
default route, Shorewall would ignore the default route with a
warning message. This could lead to systems that were inaccessible
from the net, even from systems listed in the 'routestopped' file.
Specifying 'detectnets' on an interface with a default route now
generates a fatal error.
Problems Corrected in 3.2.4
1) Previously, the directory name in the command "shorewall start
<directory name>" was being dropped by "/sbin/shorewall".
2) Previous, when /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules had been copied to
/etc/shorewall/modules, Shorewall was not looking in the correct
directory for the "xt_..." modules. There are two parts to the fix:
- The /usr/share/shorewall/xmodules file has been removed. The
/usr/share/shorewall/modules file will now load all required
modules regardless of which kernel version you are running.
- The MODULESDIR option can now contain a colon-separated list of
directories to search for modules with the default being:
/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter:/lib/modules/$(uname
-r)/kernel/net/netfilter
3) Rules in /etc/shorewall/tos which specify zones defined
using entries in /etc/shorewall/hosts applied to all traffic
to/from the zone interfaces (the bridge port, ipset or IP
address(es) in the zone definition were ignored).
4) Previously, 'shorewall-lite dump' did not report traffic shaping
information even if TC_ENABLED was set to Yes or Internal in the
shorewall.conf file used to compile the exported firewall script.
To correct this problem, the firewall script must be recompiled and
re-exported.
5) Previously, errors during the compile phase were not reflected in
the exit status of /sbin/shorewall. Thanks to Tuomo Soini for
finding and correcting this problem.
Other changes in 3.2.4
1) Previously, scripts compiled for export (-e option) depended on
/usr/share/shorewall-lite/functions in order to run correctly. This
made it possible for a compiled script to be incompatible with the
version of Shorewall Lite installed on a firewall system.
Beginning with Shorewall 3.2.4, this dependency is removed such
that version incompatibility between Shorewall and Shorewall Lite
should not be a concern going forward.
2) Two new macros have been added, courtesy of Tuomo Soini
macro.Finger
macro.Telnets
3) The output of "shorewall show macros" has been enhanced to show
macros in each directory in the CONFIG_PATH.
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