Provided by:
shorewall-common_4.0.6-1_all 
NAME
Nesting - Shorewall Nested Zones
SYNOPSIS
child-zone[: parent-zone[, parent-zone]...]
DESCRIPTION
In shorewall-zones 〈shorewall-zones.html〉 (5), a zone may be declared
to be a sub-zone of one or more other zones using the above syntax.
Where zones are nested, the CONTINUE policy in shorewall-policy
〈shorewall-policy.html〉 (5) allows hosts that are within multiple zones
to be managed under the rules of all of these zones.
EXAMPLE
/etc/shorewall/zones:
#ZONE TYPE OPTION
fw firewall
net ipv4
sam:net ipv4
loc ipv4
/etc/shorewall/interfaces:
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
- eth0 detect dhcp,norfc1918
loc eth1 detect
/etc/shorewall/hosts:
#ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS
net eth0:0.0.0.0/0
sam eth0:206.191.149.197
/etc/shorewall/policy:
#SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG LEVEL
loc net ACCEPT
sam all CONTINUE
net all DROP info
all all REJECT info
The second entry above says that when Sam is the client, connection
requests should first be processed under rules where the source zone is
sam and if there is no match then the connection request should be
treated under rules where the source zone is net. It is important that
this policy be listed BEFORE the next policy (net to all). You can have
this policy generated for you automatically by using the
IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option in shorewall.conf 〈shorewall.conf.html〉 (5).
Partial /etc/shorewall/rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
...
DNAT sam loc:192.168.1.3 tcp ssh
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.5 tcp www
...
Given these two rules, Sam can connect to the firewall’s internet
interface with ssh and the connection request will be forwarded to
192.168.1.3. Like all hosts in the net zone, Sam can connect to the
firewall’s internet interface on TCP port 80 and the connection request
will be forwarded to 192.168.1.5. The order of the rules is not
significant. Sometimes it is necessary to suppress port forwarding for
a sub-zone. For example, suppose that all hosts can SSH to the firewall
and be forwarded to 192.168.1.5 EXCEPT Sam. When Sam connects to the
firewall’s external IP, he should be connected to the firewall itself.
Because of the way that Netfilter is constructed, this requires two
rules as follows:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DEST PORT(S)
...
ACCEPT+ sam $FW tcp ssh
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3 tcp ssh
...
The first rule allows Sam SSH access to the firewall. The second rule
says that any clients from the net zone with the exception of those in
the “sam” zone should have their connection port forwarded to
192.168.1.3. If you need to exclude more than one zone, simply use
multiple ACCEPT+ rules. This technique also may be used when the ACTION
is REDIRECT.
FILES
/etc/shorewall/zones
/etc/shorewall/interfaces
/etc/shorewall/hosts
/etc/shorewall/policy
/etc/shorewall/rules
SEE ALSO
shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5), shorewall-
blacklist(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall-interfaces(5), shorewall-
ipsec(5), shorewall-maclist(5), shorewall-masq(5), shorewall-nat(5),
shorewall-netmap(5), shorewall-params(5), shorewall-policy(5),
shorewall-providers(5), shorewall-proxyarp(5), shorewall-
route_rules(5), shorewall-routestopped(5), shorewall-rules(5),
shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5), shorewall-tcdevices(5),
shorewall-tcrules(5), shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5),
shorewall-zones(5)
23 November 2007 shorewall-nesting(5)