The Shorewall team is pleased to announce the availability of Shorewall 4.4.3.
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P R O B L E M S C O R R E C T E D I N 4 . 4 . 3
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1. Previously, if 'routeback' was specified in /etc/shorewall/routestopped:
a) 'shorewall check' produced an internal error
b) The 'routeback' option didn't work
2) If an alias IP address was added and RETAIN_ALIASES=No in
shorewall.conf, then a compiler internal error resulted.
3) Previously, the generated script would try to detect the values
for all run-time variables (such as IP addresses), regardless of
what command was being executed. Now, this information is only
detected when it is needed.
4) Nested zones where the parent zone was defined by a wildcard
interface (name ends with +) in /etc/shorewall/interfaces did
not work correctly in some cases.
5) IPv4 addresses embedded in IPv6 (e.g., ::192.168.1.5) were
incorrectly reported as invalid.
6) Under certain circumstances, optional providers were not detected
as being usable.
Additionally, the messages issued when an optional provider was not
usable were confusing; the message intended to be issued when the
provider shared an interface ("WARNING: Gateway <gateway> is not
reachable -- Provider <name> (<number>) not Added") was being
issued when the provider did not share an interface. Similarly, the
message intended to be issued when the provider did not share an
interface ("WARNING: Interface <interface> is not usable --
Provider <name> (<number>) not Added") was being issued when the
provider did share an interface.
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K N O W N P R O B L E M S R E M A I N I N G
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None.
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N E W F E A T U R E S I N 4 . 4 . 3
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1) On Debian systems, a default installation will now set
INITLOG=/dev/null in /etc/default/shorewall. In all configurations,
the default values for the log variables are changed to:
STARTUP_LOG=/var/log/shorewall-init.log
LOG_VERBOSITY=2
The effect is much the same as the old defaults, with the exception
that:
a) Start, stop, etc. commands issued through /sbin/shorewall
will be logged.
b) Logging will occur at maximum verbosity.
c) Log entries will be date/time stamped.
On non-Debian systems, new installs will now log all Shorewall
commands to /var/log/shorewall-init.log.
2) A new TRACK_PROVIDERS option has been added in shorewall.conf.
The value of this option becomes the default for the 'track'
provider option in /etc/shorewall/providers.
3) A new 'limit' option has been added to
/etc/shorewall/tcclasses. This option specifies the number of
packets that are allowed to be queued within the class. Packets
exceeding this limit are dropped. The default value is 127 which is
the value that earlier versions of Shorewall used. The option is
ignored with a warning if the 'pfifo' option has been specified.
-Tom
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Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who
Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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