shorewall-rules(5)

NAME

rules - Shorewall rules file

SYNOPSIS

/etc/shorewall/rules

DESCRIPTION

Entries in this file govern connection establishment by defining
exceptions to the policies layed out in shorewall-policy[1](5). By default, subsequent requests and responses are automatically allowed
using connection tracking. For any particular (source,dest) pair of
zones, the rules are evaluated in the order in which they appear in
this file and the first terminating match is the one that determines
the disposition of the request. All rules are terminating except LOG
and QUEUE rules.

Warning
If you masquerade or use SNAT from a local system to the internet, you cannot use an ACCEPT rule to allow traffic from the internet to that
system. You must use a DNAT rule instead.

The rules file is divided into sections. Each section is introduced by a "Section Header" which is a line beginning with SECTION and followed by the section name.

Sections are as follows and must appear in the order listed:

ESTABLISHED

Packets in the ESTABLISHED state are processed by rules in this
section.

The only ACTIONs allowed in this section are ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, LOG and QUEUE

There is an implicit ACCEPT rule inserted at the end of this
section.

RELATED

Packets in the RELATED state are processed by rules in this
section.

The only ACTIONs allowed in this section are ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, LOG and QUEUE

There is an implicit ACCEPT rule inserted at the end of this
section.

NEW

Packets in the NEW and INVALID states are processed by rules in
this section.

Note
If you are not familiar with Netfilter to the point where you are
comfortable with the differences between the various connection
tracking states, then it is suggested that you omit the ESTABLISHED and RELATED sections and place all of your rules in the NEW section (That's after the line that reads SECTION NEW').

Warning
If you specify FASTACCEPT=Yes in shorewall.conf[2](5) then the ESTABLISHED and RELATED sections must be empty.

You may omit any section that you don't need. If no Section Headers
appear in the file then all rules are assumed to be in the NEW section.

When defining rules that rewrite the destination IP address and/or port number (namely DNAT and REDIRECT rules), it is important to keep
straight which columns in the file specify the packet before rewriting and which specify how the packet will look after rewriting.

o The DEST column specifies the final destination for the packet

after rewriting and can include the final IP address and/or port
number.

o The remaining columns specify characteristics of the packet before

rewriting. In particular, the ORIGINAL DEST column gives the
original destination IP address of the packet and the DEST PORT(S) column give the original destination port(s).

The columns in the file are as follows.

ACTION {ACCEPT[+|!]|NONAT|DROP[!]|REJECT[!]|DNAT[-]|SAME[-]|REDIRECT[-]|CONTINUE[!]|LOG|QUEUE[!]|NFQUEUE[/queuenumber]|COMMENT|action|macro[/target]}[:{log-level|none}[!][:tag]]

Specifies the action to be taken if the connection request matches the rule. Must be one of the following.

ACCEPT

Allow the connection request.

ACCEPT+

like ACCEPT but also excludes the connection from any
subsequent matching DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] rules

ACCEPT!

like ACCEPT but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

NONAT

Excludes the connection from any subsequent DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] rules but doesn't generate a rule to accept the traffic.

DROP

Ignore the request.

DROP!

like DROP but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

REJECT

disallow the request and return an icmp-unreachable or an RST
packet.

REJECT!

like REJECT but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

DNAT

Forward the request to another system (and optionally another
port).

DNAT

Advanced users only.

Like DNAT but only generates the DNAT iptables rule and not the companion ACCEPT rule.

SAME

Similar to DNAT except that the port may not be remapped and when multiple server addresses are listed, all requests from a given remote system go to the same server..sp
Warning
Support for SAME is scheduled for removal from the Linux kernel in 2008.

SAME

Advanced users only.

Like SAME but only generates the nat iptables rule and not the companion ACCEPT rule.

REDIRECT

Redirect the request to a server running on the firewall.

REDIRECT

Advanced users only.

Like REDIRECT but only generates the REDIRECT iptables rule and not the companion ACCEPT rule.

CONTINUE

For experts only.

Do not process any of the following rules for this (source
zone,destination zone). If the source and/or destination IP
address falls into a zone defined later in
shorewall-zones[3](5) or in a parent zone of the source or destination zones, then this connection request will be passed to the rules defined for that (those) zone(s). See
shorewall-nesting[4](5) for additional information.

CONTINUE!

like CONTINUE but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

LOG

Simply log the packet and continue with the next rule.

QUEUE

Queue the packet to a user-space application such as ftwall
(http://p2pwall.sf.net). The application may reinsert the
packet for further processing.

QUEUE!

like QUEUE but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

NFQUEUE

Only supported by Shorewall-perl >= 4.0.3.

Queues the packet to a user-space application using the
nfnetlink_queue mechanism. If a queuenumber is not specified, queue zero (0) is assumed.

NFQUEUE!

like NFQUEUE but exempts the rule from being suppressed by
OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).

COMMENT

the rest of the line will be attached as a comment to the
Netfilter rule(s) generated by the following entries. The
comment will appear delimited by "/* ... */" in the output of
"shorewall show <chain>". To stop the comment from being
attached to further rules, simply include COMMENT on a line by itself.

action

The name of an action declared in shorewall-actions[5](5) or in /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std.

macro

The name of a macro defined in a file named macro.macro. If the macro accepts an action parameter (Look at the macro source to see if it has PARAM in the TARGET column) then the macro name is followed by "/" and the target (ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, ...) to be substituted for the parameter.

Example: FTP/ACCEPT.

The ACTION may optionally be followed by ":" and a syslog log level (e.g, REJECT:info or DNAT:debug). This causes the packet to be
logged at the specified level. Note that if the ACTION involves destination network address translation (DNAT, REDIRECT, SAME,
etc.) then the packet is logged before the destination address is rewritten.

If the ACTION names an action declared in shorewall-actions[5](5) or in /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std then:

o If the log level is followed by "!' then all rules in the

action are logged at the log level.

o If the log level is not followed by "!" then only those rules

in the action that do not specify logging are logged at the
specified level.

o The special log level none! suppresses logging by the action.

You may also specify ULOG (must be in upper case) as a log level.This will log to the ULOG target for routing to a
separate log through use of ulogd
(http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html).

Actions specifying logging may be followed by a log tag (a
string of alphanumeric characters) which is appended to the
string generated by the LOGPREFIX (in shorewall.conf[2](5)).

Example: ACCEPT:info:ftp would include 'ftp ' at the end of the log prefix generated by the LOGPREFIX setting.

SOURCE {zone|all[+][-]}[:interface][:{address-or-range[,address-or-range]...[exclusion]|exclusion|+ipset}

Source hosts to which the rule applies. May be a zone declared in
/etc/shorewall/zones, $FW to indicate the firewall itself, all, all+, all-, all+- or none.

When none is used either in the SOURCE or DEST column, the rule is ignored.

all means "All Zones", including the firewall itself. all- means "All Zones, except the firewall itself". When all[-] is used either in the SOURCE or DEST column intra-zone traffic is not affected. When all+[-] is "used, intra-zone traffic is affected.

Except when all[+][-] is specified, clients may be further restricted to a list of networks and/or hosts by appending ":" and a comma-separated list of network and/or host addresses. Hosts may be specified by IP or MAC address; mac addresses must begin with
"~" and must use "-" as a separator.

Hosts may also be specified as an IP address range using the syntax lowaddress-highaddress. This requires that your kernel and iptables contain iprange match support. If your kernel and iptables have
ipset match support then you may give the name of an ipset prefaced by "+". The ipset name may be optionally followed by a number from 1 to 6 enclosed in square brackets ([]) to indicate the number of
levels of source bindings to be matched.

You may exclude certain hosts from the set already defined through use of an exclusion (see shorewall-exclusion[6](5)).

Examples:

dmz:192.168.2.2

Host 192.168.2.2 in the DMZ

net:155.186.235.0/24

Subnet 155.186.235.0/24 on the Internet

loc:192.168.1.1,192.168.1.2

Hosts 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.1.2 in the local zone.

loc:~00-A0-C9-15-39-78

Host in the local zone with MAC address 00:A0:C9:15:39:78.

net:192.0.2.11-192.0.2.17

Hosts 192.0.2.11-192.0.2.17 in the net zone.

net:!192.0.2.11-192.0.2.17

All hosts in the net zone except for 192.0.2.11-192.0.2.17.

net:155.186.235.0/24!155.186.235.16/28

Subnet 155.186.235.0/24 on the Internet except for
155.186.235.16/28

Alternatively, clients may be specified by interface by appending
":" to the zone name followed by the interface name. For example,
loc:eth1 specifies a client that communicates with the firewall system through eth1. This may be optionally followed by another
colon (":") and an IP/MAC/subnet address as described above (e.g., loc:eth1:192.168.1.5).

It is important to note that when using Shorewall-shell and specifying an address list that will be split (i.e., a comma
separated list), there is a subtle behavior which has the potential to cause confusion. Consider the two examples below: Examples:

loc:eth1:192.168.1.3,192.168.1.5

Hosts 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.5 in the Local zone, with
192.168.1.3 coming from eth1 and 192.168.1.5 originating from
any interface in the zone.

loc:eth1:192.168.1.3,eth1:192.168.1.5

Hosts 192.168.1.3 and 192.168.1.5 in the Local zone, with both originating from eth1.

That is, the interface name must be explicitly stated for each
member of the comma separated list. Again, this distinction in
behavior only occurs when using Shorewall-shell.

DEST {zone|all[+][-]}[:{interface|address-or-range[,address-or-range]...[exclusion]|exclusion|+ipset}][:port[:random]]

Location of Server. May be a zone declared in
shorewall-zones[3](5), $FW to indicate the firewall itself, all. all+ or none.

When none is used either in the SOURCE or DEST column, the rule is ignored.

When all is used either in the SOURCE or DEST column intra-zone traffic is not affected. When all+ is used, intra-zone traffic is affected.

If the DEST zone is a bport zone, then either:

1. the SOURCE must be all[+][-], or

2. the SOURCE zone must be another bport zone associated with the same bridge, or

3. the SOURCE zone must be an ipv4 zone that is associated with only the same bridge.

Except when all[+]|[-] is specified, the server may be further restricted to a particular network, host or interface by
appending ":" and the network, host or interface. See SOURCE above.

You may exclude certain hosts from the set already defined
through use of an exclusion (see shorewall-exclusion[6](5)).

Restrictions:

1. MAC addresses are not allowed (this is a Netfilter
restriction).

2. In DNAT rules, only IP addresses are allowed; no FQDNs or subnet addresses are permitted.

3. You may not specify both an interface and an address.

Like in the SOURCE column, you may specify a range of IP addresses using the syntax lowaddress-highaddress. When the ACTION is DNAT or DNAT-, the connections will be assigned to addresses in the range in a round-robin fashion.

If you kernel and iptables have ipset match support then you
may give the name of an ipset prefaced by "+". The ipset name
may be optionally followed by a number from 1 to 6 enclosed in square brackets ([]) to indicate the number of levels of
destination bindings to be matched. Only one of the SOURCE and DEST columns may specify an ipset name.

The port that the server is listening on may be included and separated from the server's IP address by ":". If omitted, the firewall will not modifiy the destination port. A destination
port may only be included if the ACTION is DNAT or REDIRECT.

Example:
loc:192.168.1.3:3128 specifies a local server at IP address 192.168.1.3 and listening on port 3128.

If you are using Shorewall-shell or Shorewall-perl before version
4.0.5, then the port number MUST be specified as an integer and not as a name from services(5). Shorewall-perl 4.0.5 and later permit
the port to be specified as a service name. Additionally,
Shorewall-perl 4.0.5 and later permit specifying a port range in
the form lowport-highport to cause connections to be assigned to ports in the range in round-robin fashion. When a port range is
specified, lowport and highport must be given as integers; service names are not permitted. Beginning with Shorewall 4.0.6, the port
range may be optionally followed by :random which causes assignment to ports in the list to be random.

If the ACTION is REDIRECT or REDIRECT-, this column needs only to contain the port number on the firewall that the request should be redirected to. That is equivalent to specifying $FW::port.

PROTO (Optional) {-|tcp:syn|ipp2p|ipp2p:udp|ipp2p:all|protocol-number|protocol-name|all} Protocol - ipp2p* requires ipp2p match support in your kernel and iptables. tcp:syn implies tcp plus the SYN flag must be set and the RST,ACK and FIN flags must be reset.

DEST PORT(S) (Optional) {-|port-name-number-or-range[,port-name-number-or-range]...} Destination Ports. A comma-separated list of Port names (from
services(5)), port numbers or port ranges; if the protocol is icmp, this column is interpreted as the destination icmp-type(s).

If the protocol is ipp2p, this column is interpreted as an ipp2p option without the leading "--" (example bit for bit-torrent). If no port is given, ipp2p is assumed.

A port range is expressed as lowport:highport.

This column is ignored if PROTO = all but must be entered if any of the following columns are supplied. In that case, it is suggested
that this field contain a dash (-).

If your kernel contains multi-port match support, then only a
single Netfilter rule will be generated if in this list and the
CLIENT PORT(S) list below:

1. There are 15 or less ports listed.

2. No port ranges are included or your kernel and iptables contain extended multiport match support.

Otherwise, unless you are using Shorewall-perl[7], a separate rule will be generated for each port. Shorewall-perl does not
automatically break up lists into individual rules.

SOURCE PORT(S) (Optional) {-|port-name-number-or-range[,port-name-number-or-range]...} Port(s) used by the client. If omitted, any source port is
acceptable. Specified as a comma- separated list of port names,
port numbers or port ranges.

Warning
Unless you really understand IP, you should leave this column empty or place a dash (-) in the column. Most people who try to use this column get it wrong.

If you don't want to restrict client ports but need to specify an
ORIGINAL DEST in the next column, then place "-" in this column.

If your kernel contains multi-port match support, then only a
single Netfilter rule will be generated if in this list and the
DEST PORT(S) list above:

1. There are 15 or less ports listed.

2. No port ranges are included or your kernel and iptables contain extended multiport match support.

Otherwise, unless you are using Shorewall-perl[7], a separate rule will be generated for each port. Shorewall-perl does not
automatically break up lists into individual rules.

ORIGINAL DEST (Optional) [-|address[,address]...[exclusion]|exclusion] If ACTION is DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] then if this column is included and is different from the IP address given in the SERVER column, then connections destined for that address will be forwarded to the IP and port specified in the DEST column.

A comma-separated list of addresses may also be used. This is most useful with the REDIRECT target where you want to redirect traffic destined for particular set of hosts. Finally, if the list of
addresses begins with "!" (exclusion) then the rule will be followed only if the original destination address in the connection request does not match any of the addresses listed.

For other actions, this column may be included and may contain one or more addresses (host or network) separated by commas. Address
ranges are not allowed. When this column is supplied, rules are
generated that require that the original destination address
matches one of the listed addresses. This feature is most useful
when you want to generate a filter rule that corresponds to a DNATor REDIRECT- rule. In this usage, the list of addresses should not begin with "!".

It is also possible to specify a set of addresses then exclude part of those addresses. For example, 192.168.1.0/24!192.168.1.16/28 specifies the addresses 192.168.1.0-182.168.1.15 and
192.168.1.32-192.168.1.255. See shorewall-exclusion[6](5).

See http://shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html[8] for an example of using an entry in this column with a user-defined action rule.

RATE LIMIT (Optional) - [-|rate/{sec|min}[:burst] You may rate-limit the rule by placing a value in this column:

rate is the number of connections per interval (sec or min) and burst is the largest burst permitted. If no burst is given, a value of 5 is assumed. There may be no no whitespace embedded in the
specification.

Example: 10/sec:20

USER/GROUP (Optional) [!][user-name-or-number][:group-name-or-number][+program-name] This column may only be non-empty if the SOURCE is the firewall
itself.

When this column is non-empty, the rule applies only if the program generating the output is running under the effective user and/or group specified (or is NOT running under that id if "!" is given).

Examples:

joe
program must be run by joe

:kids
program must be run by a member of the 'kids' group

!:kids
program must not be run by a member of the 'kids' group

+upnpd
#program named upnpd

Important
The ability to specify a program name was removed from
Netfilter in kernel version 2.6.14.

MARK - [!]value[/mask][:C]
Defines a test on the existing packet or connection mark. The rule will match only if the test returns true.

If you don't want to define a test but need to specify anything in the following columns, place a "-" in this field.

!
Inverts the test (not equal)

value
Value of the packet or connection mark.

mask
A mask to be applied to the mark before testing.

:C
Designates a connection mark. If omitted, the packet mark's
value is tested. This option is only supported by
Shorewall-perl.