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NAME

       zones - Shorewall6 zone declaration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/shorewall6/zones

DESCRIPTION

       The /etc/shorewall6/zones file declares your network zones. You specify the hosts in each
       zone through entries in /etc/shorewall6/interfaces or /etc/shorewall6/hosts.

       The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is followed by a different
       name in parentheses, the different name is used in the alternate specification syntax).

       ZONE - zone[:parent-zone[,parent-zone]...]
           Name of the zone. The names "all", "none", "SOURCE" and "DEST" are reserved and may
           not be used as zone names. The maximum length of a zone name is determined by the
           setting of the LOGFORMAT option in shorewall6.conf[1](5). With the default LOGFORMAT,
           zone names can be at most 5 characters long.  The maximum length of an iptables log
           prefix is 29 bytes. As explained in shorewall6.conf[2] (5), the default LOGPREFIX
           formatting string is “Shorewall:%s:%s:” where the first %s is replaced by the chain
           name and the second is replaced by the disposition.

           ·   The default formatting string has 12 fixed characters ("Shorewall" and three
               colons).

           ·   The longest of the standard dispositions are ACCEPT and REJECT which have 6
               characters each.

           ·   The canonical name for the chain containing the rules for traffic going from zone
               1 to zone 2 is "<zone 1>2<zone 2>".

           ·   So if M is the maximum zone name length, such chains can have length 2*M + 1.
                   12 + 6 + 2*M + 1 = 29 which reduces to
                   2*M = 29 - 12 - 6 - 1 = 10 or
                   M = 5
           The order in which Shorewall6 matches addresses from packets to zones is determined by
           the order of zone declarations. Where a zone is nested in one or more other zones, you
           may either ensure that the nested zone precedes its parents in this file, or you may
           follow the (sub)zone name by ":" and a comma-separated list of the parent zones. The
           parent zones must have been declared in earlier records in this file. See
           shorewall6-nesting[3](5) for additional information.

           Example:

               #ZONE     TYPE     OPTIONS         IN OPTIONS        OUT OPTIONS
               a         ipv6
               b         ipv6
               c:a,b     ipv6

           Currently, Shorewall6 uses this information to reorder the zone list so that parent
           zones appear after their subzones in the list. The IMPLICIT_CONTINUE option in
           shorewall6.conf[1](5) can also create implicit CONTINUE policies to/from the subzone.

           Where an ipsec zone is explicitly included as a child of an ipv6 zone, the ruleset
           allows CONTINUE policies (explicit or implicit) to work as expected.

           In the future, Shorewall6 may make additional use of nesting information.

       TYPE

           ipv6
               This is the standard Shorewall6 zone type and is the default if you leave this
               column empty or if you enter "-" in the column. Communication with some zone hosts
               may be encrypted. Encrypted hosts are designated using the 'ipsec' option in
               shorewall6-hosts[4](5).

           ipsec (or ipsec6)
               Communication with all zone hosts is encrypted. Your kernel and ip6tables must
               include policy match support.

           firewall
               Designates the firewall itself. You must have exactly one 'firewall' zone. No
               options are permitted with a 'firewall' zone. The name that you enter in the ZONE
               column will be stored in the shell variable $FW which you may use in other
               configuration files to designate the firewall zone.

           bport (or bport6)
               The zone is associated with one or more ports on a single bridge.

           vserver
               Added in Shorewall 4.4.11 Beta 2 - A zone composed of Linux-vserver guests. The
               zone contents must be defined in shorewall6-hosts[4] (5).

               Vserver zones are implicitly handled as subzones of the firewall zone.

           loopback
               Added in Shorewall 4.5.17.

               Normally, Shorewall treats the loopback interface (lo) in the following way:

               ·   By default, all traffic through the interface is ACCEPTed.

               ·   If a $FW -> $FW policy is defined or $FW -> $FW rules are defined, they are
                   placed in a chain named ${FW}2${F2} or ${FW}-${FW} (e.g., 'fw2fw' or 'fw-fw' )
                   depending on the ZONE2ZONE setting in shorewall6.conf[1](5).

               ·   $FW -> $FW traffic is only filtered in the OUTPUT chain.

               By defining a loopback zone and associating it with the loopback interface in
               shorewall-interfaces(5), you can effect a slightly different model. Suppose that
               the loopback zone name is 'local'; then:

               ·   Both $FW -> local and local -> $FW chains are created.

               ·   The $FW -> local and local -> $FW policies may be different.

               ·   Both $FW -> local and local -> $FW rules may be specified.

               Rules to/from the loopback zone and any zone other than the firewall zone are
               ignored with a warning.

               loopback zones may be nested within other loopback zones.

           local
               Added in Shorewall 4.5.17.  local is the same as ipv6 with the exception that the
               zone is only accessible from the firewall and vserver zones.

       OPTIONS, IN OPTIONS and OUT OPTIONS (options, in_options, out_options) -
       [option[,option]...]
           A comma-separated list of options. With the exception of the mss and blacklist
           options, these only apply to TYPE ipsec zones.

           blacklist
               Added in Shorewall 4.4.13. May not be specified for firewall or vserver zones.

               When specified in the IN_OPTIONS column, causes all traffic from this zone to be
               passed against the src entries in shorewall6-blacklist[5](5).

               When specified in the OUT_OPTIONS column, causes all traffic to this zone to be
               passed against the dst entries in shorewall6-blacklist[5](5).

               Specifying this option in the OPTIONS column is equivalent to entering it in both
               of the IN_OPTIONS and OUT_OPTIONS column.

           dynamic_shared
               Added in Shorewall 4.5.9. May only be specified in the OPTIONS column and
               indicates that only a single ipset should be created for this zone if it has
               multiple dynamic entries in shorewall6-hosts[4](5). Without this option, a
               separate ipset is created for each interface.

           reqid=number
               where number is specified using setkey(8) using the 'unique:number option for the
               SPD level.

           spi=<number>
               where number is the SPI of the SA used to encrypt/decrypt packets.

           proto=ah|esp|ipcomp
               IPSEC Encapsulation Protocol

           mss=number
               sets the MSS field in TCP packets. If you supply this option, you should also set
               FASTACCEPT=No in shorewall6.conf[1](5) to insure that both the SYN and SYN,ACK
               packets have their MSS field adjusted.

           mode=transport|tunnel
               IPSEC mode

           tunnel-src=address[/mask]
               only available with mode=tunnel

           tunnel-dst=address[/mask]
               only available with mode=tunnel

           strict
               Means that packets must match all rules.

           next
               Separates rules; can only be used with strict

           The options in the OPTIONS column are applied to both incoming and outgoing traffic.
           The IN OPTIONS are applied to incoming traffic (in addition to OPTIONS) and the OUT
           OPTIONS are applied to outgoing traffic.

           If you wish to leave a column empty but need to make an entry in a following column,
           use "-".

FILES

       /etc/shorewall6/zones

SEE ALSO

       http://www.shorewall.net/Multiple_Zones.html.

       http://shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs

       shorewall6(8), shorewall6-accounting(5), shorewall6-actions(5), shorewall6-blacklist(5),
       shorewall6-hosts(5), shorewall6-interfaces(5), shorewall6-maclist(5),
       shorewall6-nesting(8), shorewall6-netmap(5),shorewall6-params(5), shorewall6-policy(5),
       shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-rtrules(5), shorewall6-routestopped(5),
       shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5), shorewall6-secmarks(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5),
       shorewall6-tcdevices(5), shorewall6-tcrules(5), shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5)

NOTES

        1. shorewall6.conf
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall6.conf.html

        2. shorewall6.conf
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall.conf.html

        3. shorewall6-nesting
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall6-nesting.html

        4. shorewall6-hosts
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall6-hosts.html

        5. shorewall6-blacklist
           http://www.shorewall.netshorewall6-blacklist.html

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