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/etc/shorewall/interfaces; the
bridged Ethernet interfaces are not defined to Shorewall. How do I tell
Shorewall to allow traffic through the bridge?This article applies to Shorewall 4.4 and later. If you are running a version of Shorewall earlier than Shorewall 4.4.0 then please see the documentation for that release.
Answer: Check out the QuickStart Guides.
Answer: When first installing Shorewall 4.4.0 or later, you must install the shorewall package. If you want to configure an IPv6 firewall, you must also install shorewall6. Beginning with Shorewall 4.5, you must first install the shorewall-core package.
Answer: That was good advice in Shorewall 4.2 and earlier. In those releases, there were two packages that provided the basic firewalling functionality: shorewall-shell and shorewall-perl. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.0, shorewall-shell is discontinued and shorewall-perl is renamed shorewall.
Answer:
Once you have installed the .deb package and before you attempt to configure Shorewall, please heed the advice of Lorenzo Martignoni, former Shorewall Debian Maintainer:
“For more information about Shorewall usage on Debian system please look at /usr/share/doc/shorewall-common/README.Debian provided by [the] shorewall-common Debian package.”
If you install using the .deb, you will find that your /etc/shorewall directory is almost empty.
This is intentional. The released configuration file skeletons may be
found on your system in the directory /usr/share/doc/shorewall-common/default-config.
Simply copy the files you need from that directory to /etc/shorewall and modify the
copies.
Answer:In Shorewall 4.4, the shorewall-shell package was discontinued. The shorewall-common and shorewall-perl packages were combined to form a single shorewall package. In Shorewall 4.5, the shorewall-core package was added and all of the other packages depend on shorewall-core.
Answer: This happens when:
You use INCLUDE (?INCLUDE).
The included files are in a subdirectory of /etc/shorewall[6] or in a separate directory.
You have AUTOMAKE=Yes in shorewall[6].conf(5).
When AUTOMAKE=Yes, the compiler looks for files in each directory
in CONFIG_PATH for files that are newer that the last-generated firewall
script. If none are found, the old script is used as is. Prior to
version 5.1.10.2, that search was recursive so changes in
sub-directories of /etc/shorewall[6] were automatically searched. This
had performance implications if directories on the CONFIG_PATH were
deeply nested. So, beginning with version 5.1.10.2, only the directories
themselves are searched. You can restore the pre-5.1.10.2 behavior by
setting AUTOMAKE=recursive, or
AUTOMAKE=integer, where integer specifies the
search depth. If your included files are in a separate directory, then
that directory must be added to CONFIG_PATH in order to allow AUTOMAKE
to work correctly.
Answer: Please see the upgrade issues.
Answer:In Shorewall 4.4, the shorewall-shell package was discontinued. The shorewall-common and shorewall-perl packages were combined to form a single shorewall package. For further information, please see the upgrade issues..
Answer: Please see the upgrade issues.
Answer: Please see the upgrade issues.
Answer: This happens to people
who ignore our advice and
allow the installer to replace their working
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf with one that has
default settings. Failure to forward traffic (such as during masqueraded
net access from a local network) usually means that /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf
contains the default setting IP_FORWARDING=Keep; it should be
IP_FORWARDING=On.
Update: Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.21, there is a shorewall update command that does a smart merge of your existing shorewall.conf and the new one.
Answer: See FAQ 1.5.
Answer: The format of a port-forwarding rule from the net to a local system is as follows:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT DNAT net loc:local-IP-address[:local-port] protocol port-number
So to forward UDP port 7777 to internal system 192.168.1.5, the rule is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT DNAT net loc:192.168.1.5 udp 7777
If you want to forward requests directed to a particular address ( external-IP ) on your firewall to an internal system:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST DNAT net loc:local-IP-address>[:local-port] protocol port-number - external-IP
If you want to forward requests from a particular Internet address ( address ):
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST DNAT net:address loc:local-IP-address[:local-port] protocol port-number -
Finally, if you need to forward a range of ports, in the DEST PORT column specify the range as low-port:high-port.
The above does not work for forwarding from the local network. If you want to do that, see FAQ 2.
Answer: That is usually the result of one of five things:
You are trying to redirect a UDP port and there is already a conntrack table entry for the flow, created via an ACCEPT rule.
Example:
DNAT loc:192.168.0.2 dmz:192.168.1.3 udp 53
Assuming that you have installed the conntrack package, you can delete all such conntrack table entries using:
conntrack -D -s 192.168.0.2 -p udp --dport 53
You are trying to test from inside your firewall (no, that won't work -- see the section called “(FAQ 2) I port forward www requests to www.mydomain.com (IP 130.151.100.69) to system 192.168.1.5 in my local network. External clients can browse http://www.mydomain.com but internal clients can't.”).
You have a more basic problem with your local system (the one that you are trying to forward to) such as an incorrect default gateway (it must be set to the IP address of your firewall's internal interface; if that isn't possible for some reason, see FAQ 1f).
Your ISP is blocking that particular port inbound or, for TCP, your ISP is dropping the outbound SYN,ACK response.
You are running Mandriva Linux prior to 10.0 final and have configured Internet Connection Sharing. In that case, the name of your local zone is 'masq' rather than 'loc' (change all instances of 'loc' to 'masq' in your rules). You may want to consider re-installing Shorewall in a configuration which matches the Shorewall documentation. See the two-interface QuickStart Guide for details.
Answer: To further diagnose this problem:
As root, type “ shorewall reset ” ("shorewall-lite reset", if you are running Shorewall Lite). This clears all Netfilter counters.
Try to connect to the redirected port from an external host.
As root type “ shorewall show nat ” ("shorewall-lite show nat", if you are running Shorewall Lite).
Locate the appropriate DNAT rule. It will be in a chain called <source zone>_dnat (“net_dnat” in the above examples).
Is the packet count in the first column non-zero? If so, the connection request is reaching the firewall and is being redirected to the server. In this case, the problem is usually a missing or incorrect default gateway setting on the local system (the system you are trying to forward to -- its default gateway must be the IP address of the firewall's interface to that system unless you use the hack described in FAQ 1f).
If the packet count is zero:
the connection request is not reaching your server (possibly it is being blocked by your ISP); or
you are trying to connect to a secondary IP address on your firewall and your rule is only redirecting the primary IP address (You need to specify the secondary IP address in the “ORIG. DEST.” column in your DNAT rule); or
your DNAT rule doesn't match the connection request in some other way. In that case, you may have to use a packet sniffer such as tcpdump or Wireshark to further diagnose the problem.
The traffic is entering your firewall on a different
interface (interfaces reversed in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces?).
If the packet count is non-zero, check your log to see if the connection is being dropped or rejected. If it is, then you may have a zone definition problem such that the server is in a different zone than what is specified in the DEST column. At a root prompt, type "shorewall show zones" ("shorewall-lite show zones") then be sure that in the DEST column you have specified the first zone in the list that matches OUT=<dev> and DEST= <ip>from the REJECT/DROP log message.
If everything seems to be correct according to these tests but the connection doesn't work, it may be that your ISP is blocking SYN,ACK responses. This technique allows your ISP to detect when you are running a server (usually in violation of your service agreement) and to stop connections to that server from being established.
Answer:In
/etc/shorewall/rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3:22 tcp 1022
Answer: See FAQ 2b.
On systems with the "Extended Conntrack Match" (NEW_CONNTRACK_MATCH) capability (see the output of shorewall show capabilities), port 22 is opened only to connections whose original destination port is 4104 and this FAQ does not apply.
Answer courtesy of Ryan: Assume that the IP address of your local firewall interface is 192.168.1.1. If you configure SSHD to only listen on that address and add the following rule, then you will have access on port 4104 from the net and on port 22 from your LAN.
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT DNAT net fw:192.168.1.1:22 tcp 4104
Answer: Let's take an example. Suppose that
Your Shorewall firewall's external IP address is 206.124.146.176 (eth0) and its internal IP address is 192.168.1.1 (eth1).
You have another gateway router with external IP address 130.252.100.109 and internal IP address 192.168.1.254.
You have an FTP server behind both routers with IP address 192.168.1.4
The FTP server's default gateway is through the second router (192.168.1.254).
You have this rule on the Shorewall system:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST DNAT net loc:192.168.1.4 tcp 21 - 206.124.146.176
Internet host 16.105.221.4 issues the command ftp 206.124.146.176
This results in the following sequence of events:
16.105.221.4 sends a TCP SYN packet to 206.124.146.176 specifying destination port 21.
The Shorewall box rewrites the destination IP address to 192.168.1.4 and forwards the packet.
The FTP server receives the packet and accepts the connection, generating a SYN,ACK packet back to 16.105.221.4. Because the server's default gateway is through the second router, it sends the packet to that router.
At this point, one of two things can happen. Either the second router discards or rejects the packet; or, it rewrites the source IP address to 130.252.100.109 and forwards the packet back to 16.105.221.4. Regardless of which happens, the connection is doomed. Clearly if the packet is rejected or dropped, the connection will not be successful. But even if the packet reaches 16.105.221.4, that host will reject it since it's SOURCE IP address (130.252.100.109) doesn't match the DESTINATION IP ADDRESS (206.124.146.176) of the original SYN packet.
The best way to work around this problem is to change the
default gateway on the FTP server to the Shorewall system's internal
IP address (192.168.1.1). But if that isn't possible, you can work
around the problem with the following ugly hack in
/etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT eth1:192.168.1.4 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.1 tcp 21
When running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the eqivalent
/etc/shorewall/snat file is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT SNAT(192.168.1.1) 0.0.0.0/0 eth1:192.168.1.4 tcp 21
This rule has the undesirable side effect of making all FTP connections from the net appear to the FTP server as if they originated on the Shorewall system. But it will force the FTP server to reply back through the Shorewall system who can then rewrite the SOURCE IP address in the responses properly.
Answer: This requires a vile
hack similar to the one in FAQ 2. Assuming
that your Internet zone is named net and connects
on interface eth0:
In /etc/shorewall/rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST ?SECTION ALL ?SECTION ESTABLISHED ?SECTION RELATED ?SECTION INVALID ?SECTION UNTRACKED ?SECTION NEW DNAT net net:66.249.93.111:993 tcp 80 - 206.124.146.176
In /etc/shorewall/interfaces, specify the
routeback option on
eth0:
?FORMAT 2
#ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS
net eth0 routeback/etc/shorewall/masq;
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT eth0:66.249.93.111 0.0.0.0/0 206.124.146.176 tcp 993
When running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the equivalent /etc/shorewall/snat file is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT SNAT(206.124.146.176) 0.0.0.0/0 eth0:66.249.93.111 tcp 993
and in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf:
IP_FORWARDING=On
Like the hack in FAQ 2, this one results in all forwarded connections looking to the server (66.249.93.11) as if they originated on your firewall (206.124.146.176).
Answer: Use this rule.
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT REDIRECT net 22 tcp 9022
Note that the above rule will also allow connections from the net on TCP port 22. If you don't want that, see FAQ 1e.
I added this rule but I'm still seeing the log message below
RULE: DNAT scnet:172.19.41.2 dmz0:10.199.198.145 udp 2055 LOG: Sep 21 12:55:37 fw001 kernel: [10357687.114928] Shorewall:scnet2fw:DROP:IN=eth2 OUT= MAC=00:26:33:dd:aa:05:00:24:f7:19:ce:44:08:00 SRC=172.19.41.2 DST=172.19.1.1 LEN=1492 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=23035 PROTO=UDP SPT=6376 DPT=2055 LEN=1472
Answer: There was already a conntrack entry for the failing connection before you added the rule. Install the conntrack utility program and use it to delete the entry.
conntrack -D -s 172.19.41.2 -d 172.19.1.1 -p udp -sport 6367 -dport 2055 Answer: It would be a good idea to review the QuickStart Guide appropriate for your setup; the guides cover this topic in a tutorial fashion. DNAT rules should be used for connections that need to go the opposite direction from SNAT/MASQUERADE. So if you masquerade or use SNAT from your local network to the Internet then you will need to use DNAT rules to allow connections from the Internet to your local network.
If you use both 1:1 NAT and SNAT/MASQUERADE, those connections that are subject to 1:1 NAT should use ACCEPT rather than DNAT. Note, however, that DNAT can be used to override 1:1 NAT so as to redirect a connection to a different internal system or port than would be the case using 1:1 NAT.
You also want to use DNAT rules when you intentionally want to rewrite the destination IP address or port number. In all other cases, you use ACCEPT unless you need to hijack connections as they go through your firewall and handle them on the firewall box itself; in that case, you use a REDIRECT rule.
The preceding answer should not be interpreted to mean that DNAT can only be used in conjunction with SNAT. But in common configurations using private local addresses, that is the most common usage.
Answer: Specify the external address that you want to redirect in the ORIGDEST column.
Example:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
DNAT net net:192.168.4.22 tcp 80,443 - 206.124.146.178Answer: Ian Allen has written a Paper about DNAT and Linux.
Answer: See Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html.
Answer: I have two objections to this setup.
Having an Internet-accessible server in your local network is like raising foxes in the corner of your hen house. If the server is compromised, there's nothing between that server and your other internal systems. For the cost of another NIC and a cross-over cable, you can put your server in a DMZ such that it is isolated from your local systems - assuming that the Server can be located near the Firewall, of course :-)
The accessibility problem is best solved using Split DNS (either use a separate DNS server for local clients or use Bind Version 9 “views” on your main name server) such that www.mydomain.com resolves to 130.141.100.69 externally and 192.168.1.5 internally. I use a separate DNS server (dnsmasq) here at shorewall.net.
So the best and most secure way to solve this problem is to move your Internet-accessible server(s) to a separate LAN segment with it's own interface to your firewall and follow FAQ 2b. That way, your local systems are still safe if your server gets hacked and you don't have to run a split DNS configuration (separate server or Bind 9 views).
If physical limitations make it impractical to segregate your servers on a separate LAN, the next best solution it to use Split DNS. Before you complain "It's too hard to set up split DNS!", check here.
If you really want to route traffic between two internal systems through your firewall, then proceed as described below.
All traffic redirected through use of this technique will look to the server as if it originated on the firewall rather than on the original client! So the server's access logs will be useless for determining which local hosts are accessing the server.
Assuming that your external interface is eth0 and your internal interface is eth1 and that eth1 has IP address 192.168.1.254 with subnet 192.168.1.0/24, then:
In /etc/shorewall/interfaces:
?FORMAT 2
#ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS
loc eth1 routebackIn /etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT
eth1:192.168.1.5 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.254 tcp wwwWhen running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the corresponding
/etc/shorewall/snat file is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT
SNAT(192.168.1.254) 192.168.1.0/24 eth1:192.168.1.5 tcp wwwNote: The technique described here is known as hairpinning NAT and is described in section 6 of RFC 4787. In that RFC, it is required that the external IP address be used as the source:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS PROTO PORT
eth1:192.168.1.5 192.168.1.0/24 130.151.100.69 tcp wwwEquivalent /etc/shorewall/snat:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT
SNAT(130.151.100.69) 192.168.1.0/24 eth1:192.168.1.5 tcp wwwIn /etc/shorewall/rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
?SECTION ALL
?SECTION ESTABLISHED
?SECTION RELATED
?SECTION INVALID
?SECTION UNTRACKED
?SECTION NEW
DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.5 tcp www - 130.151.100.69That rule (and the second one in the previous bullet) only works of course if you have a static external IP address. If you have a dynamic IP address then make your DNAT rule:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
?SECTION ALL
?SECTION ESTABLISHED
?SECTION RELATED
?SECTION INVALID
?SECTION UNTRACKED
?SECTION NEW
DNAT loc loc:192.168.1.5 tcp www - ð0Using this technique, you will want to configure your DHCP/PPPoE/PPTP/… client to automatically reload Shorewall each time that you get a new IP address.
If your local interface is a bridge, see FAQ 2e for additional configuration steps.
If the ALL INTERFACES column in /etc/shorewall/nat is empty or contains “Yes”, you will also see log messages like the following when trying to access a host in Z from another host in Z using the destination host's public address:
Oct 4 10:26:40 netgw kernel:
Shorewall:FORWARD:REJECT:IN=eth1 OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.118.200
DST=192.168.118.210 LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=127 ID=1342 DF
PROTO=TCP SPT=1494 DPT=1491 WINDOW=17472 RES=0x00 ACK SYN URGP=0Answer: This is another problem that is best solved using split DNS. It allows both external and internal clients to access a NATed host using the host's DNS name.
Another good way to approach this problem is to switch from one-to-one NAT to Proxy ARP. That way, the hosts in Z have non-RFC1918 addresses and can be accessed externally and internally using the same address.
If you don't like those solutions and prefer to route all Z->Z traffic through your firewall then:
Set the routeback option on the interface to Z.
Set the ALL INTERFACES column in the nat file to “Yes”.
Example 1. Example:
Zone: dmz, Interface: eth2, Subnet: 192.168.2.0/24, Address of server 192.168.2.2
In /etc/shorewall/interfaces:
?FORMAT 2
#ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS
dmz eth2 routeback In /etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE eth2:192.168.1.2 192.168.2.0/24
When running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the equivalent
/etc/shorewall/snat is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT MASQUERADE 192.168.1.0/24 eth2:192.168.1.2 tcp www
In /etc/shorewall/nat, be sure that you
have “Yes” in the ALL INTERFACES column.
Answer: Let's assume the following:
External IP address is 206.124.146.176 on eth0 (www.mydomain.com).
Server's IP address is 192.168.2.4
You can enable access to the server from your local network using the firewall's external IP address by adding this rule:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
?SECTION ALL
?SECTION ESTABLISHED
?SECTION RELATED
?SECTION INVALID
?SECTION UNTRACKED
?SECTION NEW
DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - 206.124.146.176If your external IP address is dynamic, then you must make your DNAT rule:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
?SECTION ALL
?SECTION ESTABLISHED
?SECTION RELATED
?SECTION INVALID
?SECTION UNTRACKED
?SECTION NEW
DNAT loc dmz:192.168.2.4 tcp 80 - ð0With dynamic IP addresses, you probably don't want to use shorewall[-lite] save and shorewall[-lite] restore.
Answer: Did you set IP_FORWARDING=On in
shorewall.conf?
Answer: Yes.
In the case of simple masquerade/SNAT, see FAQ 2.
For one-to-one (static), NAT, simply place 'Yes' in the ALL INTERFACES column of each entry in /etc/shorewall/nat.
Answer: Assume that the bridge is br0 and that eth2 is the bridge port that connects to the LAN containing 192.168.1.5
In addition to the steps in FAQ 2 (replacing eth1 with br0), you also need to:
Set the hairpin option on eth2.
brctl hairpin br0 eth2 on
On Debian and derivitives, you can place that command in /etc/network/interfaces as a post-up command:
auto br0
iface br0 inet static
bridge_ports eth2
bridge_fd 0
bridge_maxwait 0
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
post-up /sbin/brctl hairpin br0 eth2 onInstall ebtables if it is not already installed.
Be sure that all traffic going out of eth2 has the correct MAC address.
ebtables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth2 -j snat --to-source br0-MAC-address where br0-MAC-address is the MAC address of br0.
Here's a working example of /etc/shorewall/start that executes the above command.
if [ $(ebtables -t nat -L POSTROUTING | wc -l) -lt 4 ]; then
ebtables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth2 -j snat --to-source 0:19:21:d0:61:65
fiAnswer: Nothing.
Blacklisting an IP address blocks incoming traffic from that IP
address. And if you set BLACKLISTNEWONLY=Yes in
shorewall.conf, then only new connections from that address are disallowed; traffic from
that address that is part of an established connection (such as ping
replies) is allowed.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, you can use the
blacklist option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
to implement blacklisting by destination IP address.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.26, you can use /etc/shorewall/blrules to implement arbitrary blacklist rules.
Answer: You probably forgot to
specify the blacklist option for your
external interface(s) in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.
Answer: There is an H.323 connection tracking/NAT module that helps with Netmeeting.
Look here for a solution for MSN IM but be aware that there are significant security risks involved with this solution. Also check the Netfilter mailing list archives at http://www.netfilter.org.
Answer: The problem here is that a bare iptables -L command produces totally useless output. Use shorewall show instead.
The shorewall show command is a wrapper around iptables -L -n -v.
Answer: No one who has installed Shorewall using one of the Quick Start Guides should have to ask this question.
Regardless of which guide you used, all outbound communication is open by default. So you do not need to 'open ports' for output.
For input:
If you installed using the Standalone Guide, then please re-read this section.
If you installed using the Two-interface Guide, then please re-read these sections: Port Forwarding (DNAT), and Other Connections
If you installed using the Three-interface Guide, then please re-read these sections: Port Forwarding (DNAT) and Other Connections
If you installed using the Shorewall Setup Guide then you had better read the guide again -- you clearly missed a lot.
Also please see the Port Forwarding section of this FAQ.
Answer: The default Shorewall
setup invokes the Drop action prior to
enforcing a DROP policy and the default policy to all zones from the
Internet is DROP. The Drop action is defined in
/usr/share/shorewall/action.Drop which in turn
invokes the Auth macro (defined in
/usr/share/shorewall/macro.Auth) specifying the
REJECT action (i.e., Auth(REJECT)). This is necessary to prevent
outgoing connection problems to services that use the
“Auth” mechanism for identifying requesting users. That is
the only service which the default setup rejects.
If you are seeing closed TCP ports other than 113 (auth) then either you have added rules to REJECT those ports or a router outside of your firewall is responding to connection requests on those ports.
If you would prefer to 'stealth' port 113, then:
If you are running Shorewall 4.4.20 or earlier, copy
/usr/share/shorewall/action.Drop to
/etc/shorewall/ and modify the invocation of
Auth to Auth(DROP).
If you are running Shorewall 4.4.21 or later, in shorewall.conf, set DROP_DEFAULT="Drop(-,DROP)". See the Action HOWTO to learn how that magic works.
Answer: Take a deep breath and read the nmap manpage section about UDP scans. If nmap gets nothing back from your firewall then it reports the port as open. If you want to see which UDP ports are really open, temporarily change your net->all policy to REJECT, restart Shorewall and run the nmap UDP scan again.
I had a rule that allowed telnet from my local network to my firewall; I removed that rule and restarted Shorewall but my telnet session still works!!!
Answer: Rules only govern the establishment of new connections. Once a connection is established through the firewall it will be usable until disconnected (tcp) or until it times out (other protocols). If you stop telnet and try to establish a new session your firewall will block that attempt.
Answer: Here's a writeup describing a nice integration of Shorewall and PortSentry.
Please see FAQ 17.
Answer: For a complete description of Shorewall “ping” management, see this page.
Answer: Every time I read “systems can't see out to the net”, I wonder where the poster bought computers with eyes and what those computers will “see” when things are working properly :-). That aside, the most common causes of this problem are:
The default gateway on each local system isn't set to the IP address of the local firewall interface. You can test this by:
At a root shell prompt, type 'shorewall clear'.
From a local system, attempt to ping the IP address of the Shorewall system's internet (external) interface. If that doesn't work, then the default gateway on the system from which you pinged is not set correctly.
Be sure to 'shorewall start' after the test.
The entry for the local network in the
/etc/shorewall/masq file is wrong or
missing.
The DNS settings on the local systems are wrong or the user is running a DNS server on the firewall and hasn't enabled UDP and TCP port 53 from the local net to the firewall or from the firewall to the Internet.
Forwarding is not enabled (This is often the problem for Debian users). Enter this command:
cat /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
If the value displayed is 0 (zero) then set IP_FORWARDING=On in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf and restart
Shorewall.
Answer: See the Shorewall and FTP page.
Answer: Most likely, you need to
set CLAMPMSS=Yes in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
/etc/shorewall/interfaces; the
bridged Ethernet interfaces are not defined to Shorewall. How do I tell
Shorewall to allow traffic through the bridge?Answer: Add the
routeback option to br0 in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.
For more information on this type of configuration, see the Shorewall Simple Bridge documentation.
Answer: In kernel 2.6.20, the Netfilter physdev match feature was changed such that it is no longer capable of matching the output device of non-bridged traffic. You will see messages such as the following in your log:
Apr 20 15:03:50 wookie kernel: [14736.560947] physdev match: using --physdev-out in the OUTPUT, FORWARD and POSTROUTING chains for
non-bridged traffic is not supported anymore.This kernel change, while necessary, means that Shorewall zones may no longer be defined in terms of bridge ports. See the Shorewall-perl bridging documentation for information about how to configure bridge/firewalls.
Following the instructions in the new bridging documentation will not prevent the above message from being issued.
I'm seeing this in my log:
Aug 31 16:51:24 fw22 kernel: Shorewall:net2fw:DROP:IN=eth5 OUT= MAC=00:0c:29:74:9c:0c:08:00:20:b2:5f:db:08:00
SRC=10.1.50.14 DST=10.1.50.7 LEN=57 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=255 ID=32302 DF
PROTO=UDP SPT=53289 DPT=53 LEN=37Answer: This occurs when the external interface and an internal interface are connected to the same switch or hub. See this article for details. The solution is to never connect more than one firewall interface to the same hub or switch (an obvious exception is that when you have a switch that supports VLAN tagging and the interfaces are associated with different VLANs).
Answer: No, that is not correct. The LOGFILE setting tells Shorewall where to find the log; it does not determine where messages are written. See the next FAQ.
Answer: NetFilter uses the
kernel's equivalent of syslog (see “man syslog”) to log
messages. It always uses the LOG_KERN (kern) facility (see “man
openlog”) and you get to choose the log level (again, see
“man syslog”) in your policies and
rules. The
destination for messages logged by syslog is controlled by
/etc/syslog.conf (see “man
syslog.conf”). When you have changed
/etc/syslog.conf, be sure to restart syslogd (on a
RedHat system, “service syslog restart”).
It is also possible to set up Shorewall to log all of Netfilter's messages to a separate file.
Answer: Here are several links that may be helpful:
https://shorewall.org/pub/shorewall/parsefw/
http://aaron.marasco.com/linux.html
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/projects/fwlogwatch
http://www.logwatch.org
I personally use fwlogwatch. It emails me a report each day from my various systems with each report summarizing the logged activity on the corresponding system; here's a sample:
fwlogwatch summary Generated Tuesday March 02 08:14:37 PST 2010 by root. 362 (and 455 older than 86400 seconds) of 817 entries in the file "/var/log/ulog/syslogemu.log" are packet logs, 138 have unique characteristics. First packet log entry: Mar 01 08:16:06, last: Mar 02 08:06:21. All entries were logged by the same host: "gateway". All entries have the same target: "-". Only entries with a count of at least 5 are shown. net-dmz DROP eth2 36 packets from 61.158.162.9 to 206.124.146.177 net-fw DROP eth0 21 packets from 89.163.162.13 to 76.104.233.98 net-fw DROP eth0 19 packets from 61.184.101.46 to 76.104.233.98 net-fw DROP eth0 12 packets from 81.157.214.103 to 76.104.233.98 net-fw DROP eth0 11 packets from 174.37.159.222 to 76.104.233.98 net-fw DROP eth0 10 packets from 221.195.73.86 to 76.104.233.98 net-dmz DROP eth2 9 packets from 202.199.158.6 to 206.124.146.177 net-fw DROP eth2 9 packets from 202.199.158.6 to 206.124.146.176 net-dmz DROP eth2 9 packets from 202.199.158.6 to 206.124.146.178 net-fw DROP eth0 6 packets from 221.192.199.35 to 76.104.233.98 net-fw DROP eth2 5 packets from 61.158.162.9 to 206.124.146.177
Fwlogwatch contains a built-in web server that allows monitoring recent activity in summary fashion.
Answer: Temporarily add the following rule:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT ?SECTION ALL ?SECTION ESTABLISHED ?SECTION RELATED ?SECTION INVALID ?SECTION UNTRACKED ?SECTION NEW DROP net $FW udp 10619
Alternatively, if you do not set BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL you can
blacklist the port. In
/etc/shorewall/blrules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT DROP net $FW udp 10619
Answer: What is labeled as the MAC address in a Netfilter (Shorewall) log message is actually the Ethernet frame header. It contains:
the destination MAC address (6 bytes)
the source MAC address (6 bytes)
the Ethernet frame type (2 bytes)
Example 2. Example
MAC=00:04:4c:dc:e2:28:00:b0:8e:cf:3c:4c:08:00
Destination MAC address = 00:04:4c:dc:e2:28
Source MAC address = 00:b0:8e:cf:3c:4c
Ethernet Frame Type = 08:00 (IP Version 4)
Answer:
Just to be clear, it is not Shorewall that is writing all over your console. Shorewall issues a single log message during each start, restart, stop, etc. It is rather your logging daemon that is writing messages to your console. Shorewall itself has no control over where a particular class of messages are written. See the Shorewall logging documentation.
The max log level to be sent to the console is available in /proc/sys/kernel/printk:
teastep@ursa:~$ cat /proc/sys/kernel/printk
6 6 1 7
teastep@ursa:~$ The first number determines the maximum log level (syslog priority) sent to the console. Messages with priority less than this number are sent to the console. On the system shown in the example above, priorities 0-5 are sent to the console. Since Shorewall defaults to using 'info' (6), the Shorewall-generated Netfilter rule set will generate log messages that will not appear on the console.
The second number is the default log level for kernel printk() calls that do not specify a log level.
The third number specifies the minimum console log level while the fourth gives the default console log level.
If, on your system, the first number is 7 or greater, then the
default Shorewall configurations will cause messages to be written to
your console. The simplest solution is to add this to your
/etc/sysctl.conf file:
kernel.printk = 4 4 1 7
then
sysctl -p /etc/sysctl.confAnswer: While we would argue that 'dmesg filled up' is not necessarily a problem, the only way to eliminate that is to set up Shorewall to log all of Netfilter's messages to a separate file.
Some people who ask this question report that the only Shorewall
messages that they see in /var/log/messages are
'started', 'restarted' and 'stopped' messages.
Answer: First of all, it is
important to understand that Shorewall itself does not control where
Netfilter log messages are written. The LOGFILE setting in
shorewall.conf simply tells the
/sbin/shorewall[-lite] program where to look for
the log. Also, it is important to understand that a log level of
"debug" will generally cause Netfilter messages to be written to fewer
files in /var/log than a log
level of "info". The log level does not control the number of log
messages or the content of the messages.
The actual log file where Netfilter messages are written is not
standardized and will vary by distribution and distribution version.
But anytime you see no logging, it's time to look outside the
Shorewall configuration for the cause. As an example, recent
SUSE™ releases use syslog-ng by default and
write Shorewall messages to
/var/log/firewall.
Please see the Shorewall logging documentation for further information.
Answer: Switch to using ulogd.
Answer: See the answer to FAQ 16b above.
Answer: Logging of dropped/rejected packets occurs out of a number of chains (as indicated in the log message) in Shorewall:
zone2all,
zone-all,
all2zone,
all-zone, all2all or
all-allYou have a policy
that specifies a log level and this packet is being logged under
that policy. If you intend to ACCEPT this traffic then you need a
rule to that
effect.
Packets logged out of these chains may have a source and/or destination that is not in any defined zone (see the output of shorewall[-lite] show zones). Remember that zone membership involves both a firewall interface and an ip address.
zone12zone2
or zone1-zone2Either you have a policy for zone1 to zone2 that specifies a log level and this packet is being logged under that policy or this packet matches a rule that includes a log level.
zone12zone2
or
@zone1-zone2You have a policy for traffic from
zone1 to
zone2 that specifies TCP connection
rate limiting (value in the LIMIT column). The logged packet
exceeds that limit and was dropped. Note that these log messages
themselves are severely rate-limited so that a syn-flood won't
generate a secondary DOS because of excessive log message. These
log messages were added in Shorewall 2.2.0 Beta 7.
zone12zone2~,
zone1-zone2~
or ~blacklistnnThese are the result of entries in the /etc/shorewall/blrules file.
The packet is being logged under the maclist interface option.
The packet is being logged because the source IP is
blacklisted in the /etc/shorewall/blacklist
file.
The packet has a source IP address that isn't in any of your
defined zones (“shorewall[-lite] show
zones” and look at the printed zone definitions)
or the chain is FORWARD and the destination IP isn't in any of
your defined zones. If the chain is FORWARD and the IN and OUT
interfaces are the same or they match the same wildcard entry in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces,
then you probably need the routeback option on that interface
in /etc/shorewall/interfaces
, you need the routeback option in the relevant entry in
/etc/shorewall/hosts
or you've done something silly like define a default route out of
an internal interface.
With OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf, such packets may also be logged out of a <zone>2all chain or the all2all chain.
The packet has a destination IP address that isn't in any of your defined zones(shorewall[-lite] show zones and look at the printed zone definitions).
With OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf, such packets may also be logged out of the fw2all chain or the all2all chain.
The packet is being logged because it failed the checks implemented by the tcpflags interface option.
On systems running Shorewall 4.4.20 or later, either the
packet matched the filter interface option
or it is being routed out of the same interface on which it
arrived and the interface does not have the
routeback or routefilter interface
option.
Example 3. Here is an example:
Jun 27 15:37:56 gateway kernel:
Shorewall:all2all:REJECT:IN=eth2
OUT=eth1
SRC=192.168.2.2
DST=192.168.1.3 LEN=67 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=63 ID=5805 DF PROTO=UDP
SPT=1803 DPT=53 LEN=47Let's look at the important parts of this message:
This packet was REJECTed out of the all2all chain -- the packet was rejected under the “all”->“all” REJECT policy (all2all above).
the packet entered the firewall via eth2. If you see “IN=” with no interface name, the packet originated on the firewall itself.
if accepted, the packet would be sent on eth1. If you see “OUT=” with no interface name, the packet would be processed by the firewall itself.
When a DNAT rule is logged, there will never be an OUT= shown because the packet is being logged before it is routed. Also, DNAT logging will show the original destination IP address and destination port number. When a REDIRECT rule is logged, the message will also show the original destination IP address and port number.
the packet was sent by 192.168.2.2
the packet is destined for 192.168.1.3
UDP Protocol
The destination port is 53 (DNS)
In this case, 192.168.2.2 was in the “dmz” zone and 192.168.1.3 is in the “loc” zone. I was missing the rule:
ACCEPT dmz loc udp 53
Nov 25 18:58:52 linux kernel:
Shorewall:net2all:DROP:IN=eth1 OUT=
MAC=00:60:1d:f0:a6:f9:00:60:1d:f6:35:50:08:00 SRC=206.124.146.179
DST=192.0.2.3 LEN=56 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=110 ID=18558 PROTO=ICMP
TYPE=3 CODE=3 [SRC=192.0.2.3 DST=172.16.1.10 LEN=128 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00
TTL=47 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=53 DPT=2857 LEN=108 ]192.0.2.3 is external on my firewall... 172.16.0.0/24 is my internal LAN
Answer: First of all, please note that the above is a very specific type of log message dealing with ICMP port unreachable packets (PROTO=ICMP TYPE=3 CODE=3). Do not read this answer and assume that all Shorewall log messages have something to do with ICMP (hint -- see FAQ 17).
While most people associate the Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) with “ping”, ICMP is a key piece of IP. ICMP is used to report problems back to the sender of a packet; this is what is happening here. Unfortunately, where NAT is involved (including SNAT, DNAT and Masquerade), there are many broken implementations. That is what you are seeing with these messages. When Netfilter displays these messages, the part before the "[" describes the ICMP packet and the part between the "[" and "]" describes the packet for which the ICMP is a response.
Here is my interpretation of what is happening -- to confirm this analysis, one would have to have packet sniffers placed a both ends of the connection.
Host 172.16.1.10 behind NAT gateway 206.124.146.179 sent a UDP DNS query to 192.0.2.3 and your DNS server tried to send a response (the response information is in the brackets -- note source port 53 which marks this as a DNS reply). When the response was returned to to 206.124.146.179, it rewrote the destination IP TO 172.16.1.10 and forwarded the packet to 172.16.1.10 who no longer had a connection on UDP port 2857. This causes a port unreachable (type 3, code 3) to be generated back to 192.0.2.3. As this packet is sent back through 206.124.146.179, that box correctly changes the source address in the packet to 206.124.146.179 but doesn't reset the DST IP in the original DNS response similarly. When the ICMP reaches your firewall (192.0.2.3), your firewall has no record of having sent a DNS reply to 172.16.1.10 so this ICMP doesn't appear to be related to anything that was sent. The final result is that the packet gets logged and dropped in the all2all chain.
I blacklisted the address 130.252.100.59 using shorewall drop 130.252.100.59 but I am still seeing these log messages:
Jan 30 15:38:34 server Shorewall:net_dnat:REDIRECT:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=00:4f:4e:14:97:8e:00:01:5c:23:24:cc:08:00
SRC=130.252.100.59 DST=206.124.146.176 LEN=64 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=43 ID=42444 DF
PROTO=TCP SPT=2215 DPT=139 WINDOW=53760 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0Answer: Please refer to the Shorewall Netfilter Documentation. Logging of REDIRECT and DNAT rules occurs in the nat table's PREROUTING chain where the original destination IP address is still available. Blacklisting occurs out of the filter table's INPUT and FORWARD chains which aren't traversed until later.
I love the ability to type 'shorewall logdrop ww.xx.yy.zz' and completely block a particular IP address. However, the log part doesn't happen. When I look in the logdrop chain, there is no LOG prefix.
Answer: You haven't set a value for BLACKLIST_LOGLEVEL in shorewall.conf (5).
Dec 15 16:47:30 heath-desktop kernel: [17182740.184000] BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:01:5c:23:79:02:08:00
SRC=10.119.248.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
ID=62081 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=308
Dec 15 16:47:30 heath-desktop last message repeated 2 times
Dec 15 16:47:30 heath-desktop kernel: [17182740.188000] BANDWIDTH_IN:IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:01:5c:23:79:02:08:00
SRC=10.112.70.1 DST=255.255.255.255 LEN=328 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64
ID=62082 PROTO=UDP SPT=67 DPT=68 LEN=308
Dec 15 16:47:30 heath-desktop last message repeated 2 timesAnswer: The Webmin 'bandwidth'
module adds commands to /etc/shorewall/start that
creates rules to log every packet to/from/through the firewall.
DON'T START THE BANDWIDTH SERVICE IN
WEBMIN!
To correct this situation once it occurs, edit
/etc/shorewall/start and insert 'return 0' prior to
the BANDWIDTH rules.
Answer: See this article about Shorewall and Multiple ISPs.
Answer: This is usually the consequence of a one-to-one nat configuration blunder:
Specifying the primary IP address for an interface in the
EXTERNAL column of /etc/shorewall/nat even
though the documentation (and the comments in the file) warn you not
to do that.
Specifying ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes and RETAIN_ALIASES=No in /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
This combination causes Shorewall to delete the primary IP address from the network interface specified in the INTERFACE column which usually causes all routes out of that interface to be deleted. The solution is to not specify the primary IP address of an interface in the EXTERNAL column.
Answer: Shorewall is not a
daemon. It is a configuration tool that configures your kernel based on
the contents of /etc/shorewall/. Once the
start command completes, Shorewall has done its job
and there are no Shorewall processes remaining in the system.
Answer: The stop command places the firewall in a safe state; connections that are allowed are governed by the setting of ADMINISABSENTMINDED in shorewall.conf (5) and the contents of shorewall-stoppedrules (5). To totally open the firewall, use the clear command.
I just installed Shorewall and when I issue the start command, I see the following:
Processing /etc/shorewall/params ...
Processing /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf ...
Starting Shorewall...
Loading Modules...
Initializing...
Determining Zones...
Zones: net loc
Validating interfaces file...
Validating hosts file...
Determining Hosts in Zones...
Net Zone: eth0:0.0.0.0/0
Local Zone: eth1:0.0.0.0/0
Deleting user chains...
Creating input Chains...
...Why can't Shorewall detect my interfaces properly?
Answer: The above output is
perfectly normal. The Net zone is defined as all hosts that are
connected through eth0 and the
local zone is defined as all hosts connected through eth1. You can set the routefilter option on an internal interface if
you wish to guard against 'Martians' (a Martian
is a packet with a source IP address that is not routed out of the
interface on which the packet was received). If you do that, it is a
good idea to also set the logmartians
option.
Answer:You can place these commands in one of the Shorewall Extension Scripts. Be sure that you look at the contents of the chain(s) that you will be modifying with your commands so that the commands will do what is intended. Many iptables commands published in HOWTOs and other instructional material use the -A command which adds the rules to the end of the chain. Most chains that Shorewall constructs end with an unconditional DROP, ACCEPT or REJECT rule and any rules that you add after that will be ignored. Check “man iptables” and look at the -I (--insert) command.
Answer: When you install using the "rpm -U" command, Shorewall doesn't run your distribution's tool for configuring Shorewall startup. You will need to run that tool (insserv, chkconfig, run-level editor, …) to configure Shorewall to start in the the default run-levels of your firewall system.
Answer: Copy
/usr/share/shorewall[-lite]/modules to
/etc/shorewall/modules and modify the copy to
include only the modules that you need. An alternative is to set
LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes in shorewall.conf (5).
ERROR: Command "/sbin/iptables -A FORWARD -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT" failed.
Answer: See the Shorewall OpenVZ article.
It is important to understand that the scripts in /etc/init.d are generally provided by your
distribution and not by the Shorewall developers. These scripts must
meet the requirements of the distribution's packaging system which may
conflict with the requirements of a tight firewall. So when you say
"…when I stop Shorewall…" it is necessary to distinguish between the
commands /sbin/shorewall stop and
/etc/init.d/shorewall stop.
/sbin/shorewall stop places the firewall in a
safe state, the details of which depend on your
/etc/shorewall/stoppedrules file (shorewall-stoppedrules(5))
and on the setting of ADMINISABSENTMINDED in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf (shorewall.conf(5)).
/etc/init.d/shorewall stop may or may not do the same thing. In the case of Debian™ systems for example, that command actually executes /sbin/shorewall clear which opens the firewall completely. In other words, in the init script, stop reverses the effect of start.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4, when the Shorewall tarballs are
installed on a Debian (or derivative) system, the
/etc/init.d/shorewall file is the same as would be
installed by the .deb. The behavior of /etc/init.d/shorewall
stop is controlled by the setting of SAFESTOP in
/etc/default/shorewall. When set to 0 (the
default), the firewall is cleared; when set to 1, the firewall is placed
in a safe state.
Answer: Set IP_FORWARDING=On in
/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf.
Answer: I faced a similar problem which I solved as follows:
Don't start Shorewall at boot time (Debian and Ubuntu users
may simply set startup=0 in
/etc/default/shorewall) or disable in systemd
using systemctl disable shorewall.service.
In /etc/network/ip-up.d, I added a
shorewall script as follows:
#!/bin/sh shorewall status > /dev/null 2>&1 || shorewall start # Start Shorewall if it isn't already running
Be sure to secure the script for execute access.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.10, there is a new Shorewall Init Package that is designed to handle this case.
Answer: Shorewall uses the presence of a chain named shorewall to indicate whether is started or stopped. That chain is created during execution of a successful start, restart or restore command and is removed during stop and clear. If shorewall status indicates that Shorewall is stopped, then something has deleted that chain. Look at the output of shorewall status; if it looks like this:
gateway:~# shorewall status Shorewall-4.4.11 Status at gateway - Wed Jul 21 13:21:41 PDT 2010 Shorewall is stopped State:Started (Tue Jul 20 16:01:49 PDT 2010) gateway:~#
then it means that something outside of Shorewall has deleted the chain. This usually means that you were running another firewall package before you installed Shorewall and that other package has replaced Shorewall's Netfilter configuration with its own. You must remove (or at least disable) the other firewall package and restart Shorewall.
gateway:~# shorewall status Shorewall-4.4.11 Status at gateway - Wed Jul 21 13:26:29 PDT 2010 Shorewall is stopped State:Stopped (Wed Jul 21 13:26:26 PDT 2010) gateway:~#
then a shorewall stop command has been executed (if the State shown in the output is Cleared, then a shorewall clear command was executed). Most likely, you have installed and configured the shorewall-init package and a required interface has gone down.
Answer: This is caused by your failure to disable your distributions default iptables configuration tool when you installed Shorewall. Look for a service called 'iptables' that is being started after Shorewall and disable it.
Answer: There are several steps that you can take:
If your kernel supports module autoloading (and distribution default kernels almost always do), then set LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY=Yes in shorewall.conf.
Set AUTOMAKE=Yes in shorewall.conf. This will avoid the compilation phase in cases where the configuration has not changed since the last time that the configuration was compiled.
Don't set optimization option 8. For example, if you currently set OPTIMIZE=31, then change that to OPTIMIZE=23. Optimization option 8 combines identical chains which can result in a smaller ruleset, but it slows down the compilation of large rulesets.
Rather than restart, use reload. With the default setting of RESTART=restart, restart performs stop then start, while reload avoids the stop part.
Use a capabilities file:
Run shorewall show -f capabilties > /etc/shorewall/capabilities
Rerun that command each time you install a new kernel or a new version of shorewall.
Answer: This is usually associated with SELinux. Here is an example.
Example:
> Oct 1 13:04:39 deb kernel: [ 9570.619744] xt_addrtype: ipv6 does not support BROADCAST matching
Answer: These are harmless. Shorewall attempts to execute various commands to determine the capabiities of your system. If you system doesn't support a command, it will generally issue a kernel log message.
Answer: The Multi-ISP
Documentation strongly recommends that you use the balance option on all providers even if you want
to manually specify which ISP to use. If you don't do that so that your
main routing table only has one default route, then you must disable
route filtering. Do not specify the routefilter option on the other interface(s) in
/etc/shorewall/interfaces and disable any
IP Address Spoofing protection that your
distribution supplies.
Answer: Suppose that you want all
traffic to go out through ISP1 (mark 1) unless you specify otherwise.
Then simply add these two rules as the first marking rules in your
/etc/shorewall/mangle (was tcrules) file:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST
MARK(1):P 0.0.0.0/0
MARK(1) $FW
other MARK rulesNow any traffic that isn't marked by one of your other MARK rules will have mark = 1 and will be sent via ISP1. That will work whether balance is specified or not!
Answer: Yes, but we advise strongly against it.
The error I receive is as follows:
RTNETLINK answers: No such file or directory
We have an error talking to the kernel
ERROR: Command "tc filter add dev eth2 parent ffff: protocol ip prio
50 u32 match ip src 0.0.0.0/0 police rate 500kbit burst 10k drop flowid
:1" FailedAnswer: This message indicates that your kernel doesn't have 'traffic policing' support. If your kernel is modularized, you may be able to resolve the problem by loading the act_police kernel module. Other kernel modules that you will need include:
| cls_basic |
| cls_fw |
| cls_u32 |
| sch_htb |
| sch_ingress |
| sch_sfq |
Answer: This is likely due to TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) and/or Generic Segmentation Offload (GSO) being enabled in the network adapter. To verify, install the ethtool package and use the -k command:
root@gateway:~# ethtool -k eth1 Offload parameters for eth1: rx-checksumming: on tx-checksumming: on scatter-gather: on tcp-segmentation-offload: on udp-fragmentation-offload: off generic-segmentation-offload: on generic-receive-offload: off large-receive-offload: off ntuple-filters: off receive-hashing: off root@gateway:~#
If that is the case, you can correct the problem by adjusting the
minburst setting in
/etc/shorewall/tcinterfaces (simple traffic shaping) or
/etc/shorewall/tcdevices (complex traffic shaping). We suggest starting
at 10-12kb and adjust as necessary. Example (simple traffic
shaping):
#INTERFACE TYPE IN_BANDWIDTH OUT_BANDWIDTH
eth0 External 50mbit:200kb 5.0mbit:100kb:200ms:100mbit:10kb
Alternatively, you can turn off TSO and GSO using this command in
/etc/shorewall/init:
ethtool -K ethN tso off gso offAnswer: This is likely due to Generic Receive Offload (GRO) being enabled in the network adapter. To verify, install the ethtool package and use the -k command:
root@gateway:/etc/shorewall# ethtool -k eth1
Offload parameters for eth1:
rx-checksumming: on
tx-checksumming: on
scatter-gather: on
tcp-segmentation-offload: on
udp-fragmentation-offload: off
generic-segmentation-offload: on
generic-receive-offload: on
large-receive-offload: off
ntuple-filters: off
receive-hashing: off
root@gateway:/etc/shorewall#
To work around the issue, use this command:
ethtool -K ethN gro off
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.25, another option is available in the form of a rate-estimated policing filter.
Example from /etc/shorewall/tcdevices:
#INTERFACE IN_BANDWITH OUT_BANDWIDTH OPTIONS
1:COMB_IF ~20mbit:250ms:4sec ${UPLOAD}kbit hfsc,linklayer=ethernet,overhead=0To create a rate-estimated filter, precede the bandwidth with a tilde ("~"). The optional interval and decay_interval determine how often the rate is estimated and how many samples are retained for estimating. Please see http://ace-host.stuart.id.au/russell/files/tc/doc/estimators.txt for details.
Answer: Shorewall works with any GNU/Linux distribution that includes the proper prerequisites.
Answer: See the Shorewall Feature List.
Answer: Yes! Shorewall support is available in Webmin. See http://www.webmin.com. But beware of the issue described in FAQ 36.
Answer: Shorewall is a concatenation of “ Shoreline” (the city where I live) and “Firewall ”. The full name of the product is actually “Shoreline Firewall” but “Shorewall” is much more commonly used.
Answer: The Shorewall web site is almost font neutral (it doesn't explicitly specify fonts except on a few pages) so the fonts you see are largely the default fonts configured in your browser. If you don't like them then reconfigure your browser.
Answer: At the shell prompt, type:
/sbin/shorewall[-lite] version -a Answer: Yes.
Answer: This is the responsibility of the IP stack, not the Netfilter-based firewall since fragment reassembly occurs before the stateful packet filter ever touches each packet.
Answer: Shorwall filters these packets under the nosmurfs interface option in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.
Answer: Yes, if the routefilter interface option is selected.
Answer: Yes.
Answer: This article by Paul Gear should help you get started.
Answer: Yes. See Shorewall and Aliased Interfaces.
Answer: Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.11 Beta 2, you can create vserver zones that are nested within the firewall zone.
Prior to 4.4.11 Beta 2, there is no way to create sub-zones of the firewall zone. But you can use shell variables to make vservers easier to deal with.
/etc/shorewall/params:
VS1=fw:192.168.2.12 VS2=fw:192.168.2.13 VS3=fw:192.168.2.14
/etc/shorewall/rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT ?SECTION ALL ?SECTION ESTABLISHED ?SECTION RELATED ?SECTION INVALID ?SECTION UNTRACKED ?SECTION NEW ACCEPT $VS1 net tcp 25 DNAT net $VS1 tcp 25 etc...
Answer: Shorewall Lite is a companion product to Shorewall and is designed to allow you to maintain all Shorewall configuration information on a single system within your network. See the Compiled Firewall script documentation for details.
Answer: No. In fact, we recommend that you do NOT install Shorewall on systems where you wish to use Shorewall Lite. You must have Shorewall installed on at least one system within your network in order to use Shorewall Lite.
Answer: If you plan to have only a single firewall system, then Shorewall is the logical choice. I also think that Shorewall is the appropriate choice for laptop systems that may need to have their firewall configuration changed while on the road. In the remaining cases, Shorewall Lite will work very well. At shorewall.net, the two laptop systems have the full Shorewall product installed as does my personal Linux desktop system. All other Linux systems that run a firewall use Shorewall Lite and have their configuration directories on my desktop system.
Somehow, my firewall config is causing a one-way audio problem in Asterisk. If a person calls into the PBX, they cannot hear me speaking, but I can hear them. If I plug the Asterisk server directly into the router, bypassing the firewall, the problem goes away.
Answer: There are two things to try when VOIP problems are encountered. Both begin with executing two rmmod commands.
If your kernel version is 2.6.20 or earlier:
rmmod ip_nat_sip rmmod ip_conntrack_sip
If your kernel version is 2.6.21 or later:
rmmod nf_nat_sip rmmod nf_conntrack_sip
The first alternative seems to work for those running recent kernels (2.6.26 or later):
Copy /usr/share/shorewall/modules to
/etc/shorewall
(/usr/share/shorewall/helpers if you have
LOAD_HELPERS_ONLY in shorewall.conf).
Edit the copy and change this line:
loadmodule nf_conntrack_sip
to
loadmodule nf_conntrack_sip sip_direct_media=0
shorewall restart
The second alternative is to not load the sip helpers:
If you are running kernel 2.6.20 or earlier, then change the DONT_LOAD specification in your shorewall.conf to:
DONT_LOAD=ip_nat_sip,ip_conntrack_sip
If you are running kernel 2.6.21 or later, then change Then change the DONT_LOAD specification in your shorewall.conf to:
DONT_LOAD=nf_nat_sip,nf_conntrack_sip
Answer: Shorewall IPv6 support is currently available in Shorewall 4.2.4 and later.
Answer: Shorewall implements a
stateful firewall which requires connection tracking be present in
ip6tables and in the kernel. Linux kernels before 2.6.20 didn't
support connection tracking for IPv6. So we could not even start to
develop Shorewall IPv6 support until 2.6.20 and there were significant
problems with the facility until at least kernel 2.6.23. When
distributions began offering IPv6 connection tracking support, it was
with kernel 2.6.25. So that is what we developed IPv6 support on and
that's all that we initially tested on. Subsequently, we have tested
Shorewall6 on Ubuntu Hardy with kernel 2.6.24. If you are running
2.6.20 or later, you can try to run
Shorewall6 by hacking
/usr/share/shorewall/prog.footer6 and changing the kernel
version test to check for your kernel version rather than 2.6.24
(20624). But after that, you are on your own.
kernel=$(printf "%2d%02d%02d\n" $(echo $(uname -r) 2> /dev/null | sed 's/-.*//' | tr '.' ' ' ) | head -n1) if [ $kernel -lt 20624 ]; then error_message "ERROR: $PRODUCT requires Linux kernel 2.6.24 or later" status=2 else
Update: The above logic is found in
/usr/share/shorewall/prog.footer in later
Shorewall releases.
Answer: You have configured forwarding on the interface which disables autoconfiguration of the interface. To retain autoconfiguration on the interface when Shorewall6 starts, specify forwarding=0 in the OPTIONS column on the interface's entry in shorewall6-interfaces (5).
Answer: This is a two-step process.
Set DISABLE_IPV6=No in shorewall.conf (5) and restart Shorewall.
Execute these commands at a root shell prompt:
ip6tables -P INPUT ACCEPT
ip6tables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
ip6tables -P FORWARD ACCEPT
You will probably want to soon install Shorewall6 so that you have an IPv6 firewall as well as one for IPv4.
Answer: Yes. Consult the QuickStart guide that you used during your initial setup for information about how to set up rules for your server.
Answer: In the SOURCE column of the rule, follow “net” by a colon and a list of the host/subnet addresses as a comma-separated list.
net:<ip1>,<ip2>,...
Answer: Temporarily remove any
rejNotSyn, dropNotSyn, dropInvalid, NotSyn(...) and Invalid(...) rules from
/etc/shorewall/rules and restart Shorewall.
Answer: First take a look at the Shorewall kernel configuration page. You probably also want to be sure that you have selected the “ NAT of local connections (READ HELP) ” on the Netfilter Configuration menu. Otherwise, DNAT rules with your firewall as the source zone won't work with your new kernel.
Answer: Shorewall Bridging Firewall support is available — check here for details.
I tried this rule to block Google's Adsense that you'll find on everyone's site. Adsense is a Javascript that people add to their Web pages. So I entered the rule:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO REJECT fw net:pagead2.googlesyndication.com all
However, this also sometimes restricts access to "google.com". Why is that? Using dig, I found these IPs for domain googlesyndication.com:
216.239.37.99 216.239.39.99
And this for google.com:
216.239.37.99 216.239.39.99 216.239.57.99
So my guess is that you are not actually blocking the domain, but rather the IP being called. So how in the world do you block an actual domain name?
Answer: Packet filters like Netfilter base their decisions on the contents of the various protocol headers at the front of each packet. Stateful packet filters (of which Netfilter is an example) use a combination of header contents and state created when the packet filter processed earlier packets. Netfilter (and Shorewall's use of Netfilter) also consider the network interface(s) where each packet entered and/or where the packet will leave the firewall/router.
When you specify a domain name in a Shorewall rule, the iptables program resolves that name to one or more IP addresses and the actual Netfilter rules that are created are expressed in terms of those IP addresses. So the rule that you entered was equivalent to:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO REJECT $FW net:216.239.37.99 all REJECT $FW net:216.239.39.99 all
Given that name-based multiple hosting is a common practice (another example: lists.shorewall.net and www1.shorewall.net are both hosted on the same system with a single IP address), it is not possible to filter connections to a particular name by examination of protocol headers alone. While some protocols such as FTP require the firewall to examine and possibly modify packet payload, parsing the payload of individual packets doesn't always work because the application-level data stream can be split across packets in arbitrary ways. This is one of the weaknesses of the 'string match' Netfilter extension available in later Linux kernel releases. The only sure way to filter on packet content is to proxy the connections in question -- in the case of HTTP, this means running something like Squid. Proxying allows the proxy process to assemble complete application-level messages which can then be accurately parsed and decisions can be made based on the result.
Answer: Use the shorewall[-lite] show capabilities command at a root prompt.
gateway:~# shorewall show capabilities
Shorewall has detected the following iptables/netfilter capabilities:
NAT: Available
Packet Mangling: Available
Multi-port Match: Available
Extended Multi-port Match: Available
Connection Tracking Match: Available
Extended Connection Tracking Match Support: Available
Old Connection Tracking Match Syntax: Not available
Packet Type Match: Available
Policy Match: Available
Physdev Match: Available
Physdev-is-bridged Support: Available
Packet length Match: Available
IP range Match: Available
Recent Match: Available
Owner Match: Available
Ipset Match: Available
CONNMARK Target: Available
Extended CONNMARK Target: Available
Connmark Match: Available
Extended Connmark Match: Available
Raw Table: Available
IPP2P Match: Available
Old IPP2P Match Syntax: Not available
CLASSIFY Target: Available
Extended REJECT: Available
Repeat match: Available
MARK Target: Available
Extended MARK Target: Available
Mangle FORWARD Chain: Available
Comments: Available
Address Type Match: Available
TCPMSS Match: Available
Hashlimit Match: Available
Old Hashlimit Match: Not available
NFQUEUE Target: Available
Realm Match: Available
Helper Match: Available
Connlimit Match: Available
Time Match: Available
Goto Support: Available
LOGMARK Target: Available
IPMARK Target: Available
LOG Target: Available
Persistent SNAT: Available
gateway:~# Answer: Add these two policies:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOGLEVEL LIMIT CONNLIMIT $FW loc ACCEPT loc $FW ACCEPT
You should also delete any ACCEPT rules from $FW->loc and loc->$FW since those rules are redundant with the above policies.
Answer: Yes. In Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) mode, Snort is libpcap based (like tcpdump) so it doesn't interfere with Shorewall. We have had reports that users have also been successful in using Snort in inline more with Shorewall, but no HOWTO exists at this time.
Answer: Here's what I did:
My local network is 172.20.1.0/24, so I set the IP address in the modem to 172.20.1.2.
The IP address of my firewall's interface to the LAN is 172.20.1.254. The logical name of the DSL interface is EXT_IF and my LAN interface is INT_IF.
I added the following two configuration entries:
/etc/shorewall/masq:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS ?COMMENT DSL Modem EXT_IF:172.20.1.2 0.0.0.0/0 172.20.1.254
When running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the equivalent
/etc/shorewall/snat is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT SNAT(172.20.1.254) 0.0.0.0/0 EXT_IF:192.168.1.2 tcp www
/etc/shorewall/proxyarp:
#ADDRESS INTERFACE EXTERNAL HAVEROUTE PERSISTENT 172.20.1.2 EXT_IF INT_IF no yes
If you can't change the IP address of your modem and its current address isn't in your local network, then you need to change this slightly; assuming that the modem IP address is 192.168.1.1:
Do not include an entry in
/etc/shorewall/proxyarp.
Add an IP address in 192.168.1.0/24 to your external interface
using your configuration's network management tools. For
Debian-based systems, that means adding this to the interface's
stanza in /etc/network/interfaces:
post-up /sbin/ip addr add 192.168.1.254/24 dev external-interfaceYour entry in /etc/shorewall/masq would
then be:
#INTERFACE SOURCE ADDRESS COMMENT DSL Modem EXT_IF:192.168.1.1 0.0.0.0/0 192.168.1.254
When running Shorewall 5.0.14 or later, the equivalent
/etc/shorewall/snat is:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT SNAT(192.168.1.254) 0.0.0.0/0 EXT_IF:192.168.1.1 tcp www
Answer: If you want to apply firewall rules to the traffic passing between bridge ports, see https://shorewall.org/bridge-Shorewall-perl.html. If you simply want to allow all traffic between ports, then see https://shorewall.org/SimpleBridge.html.
Answer: FW is a shell variable that expands to the name that you gave to the firewall zone in shorewall-zones(5). The default name for the firewall zone is fw:
#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS
fw firewallSo, using the default or sample configurations, writing $FW is the same as writing fw. If you give the firewall zone a different name, gate for example, then writing $FW would be the same as writing gate.
#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS
gate firewallAnswer: There are two ways:
On the web
Go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users. At the bottom of the form is a section entitled "Shorewall-users Subscribers". At the bottom of that section find:
"To unsubscribe from Shorewall-users, get a password reminder, or change your subscription options enter your subscription email address:".
Enter your email address in the box provided and click on the "Unsubscribe or edit options" button. That will take you to a second form.
At the top of the second form is a box to enter your password -- enter it there then click the Unsubscribe button in the center of the form. You will be unsubscribed.
If you don't remember your password, click on the Remind button at the bottom of the form and your password will be emailed to you.
Via email using this link: mailto:shorewall-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net?subject=unsubscribe. You will receive a confirmation email shortly; follow the instructions in that email.
Answer: 'qt' stands for 'quiet'; qt() is a shell function that accepts a command with arguments as parameters. It redirects both standard out and standard error to /dev/null. It is defined in the Shorewall-core shell library lib.common.