Provided by: shorewall_5.0.4-1_all 
NAME
rules - Shorewall rules file
SYNOPSIS
/etc/shorewall/rules
DESCRIPTION
Entries in this file govern connection establishment by defining exceptions to the policies laid 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 COUNT 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:
ALL
This section was added in Shorewall 4.4.23. Rules in this section are applied, regardless of the
connection tracking state of the packet.
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 rule added at the end of this section that invokes the RELATED_DISPOSITION
(shorewall.conf[2](5)).
INVALID
Added in Shorewall 4.5.13. Packets in the INVALID 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 rule added at the end of this section that invokes the INVALID_DISPOSITION
(shorewall.conf[2](5)).
UNTRACKED
Added in Shorewall 4.5.13. Packets in the UNTRACKED 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 rule added at the end of this section that invokes the UNTRACKED_DISPOSITION
(shorewall.conf[2](5)).
NEW
Packets in the NEW state are processed by rules in this section. If the INVALID and/or UNTRACKED
sections are empty or not included, then the packets in the corresponding state(s) are also processed
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 non-blacklisting 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 ALL, ESTABLISHED and RELATED sections
must be empty.
An except is made if you are running Shorewall 4.4.27 or later and you have specified a non-default
value for RELATED_DISPOSITION or RELATED_LOG_LEVEL. In that case, you may have rules in the RELATED
section of this file.
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.
• The DEST column specifies the final destination for the packet after rewriting and can include the
final IP address and/or port number.
• The remaining columns specify characteristics of the packet before rewriting. In particular, the
ORIGDEST column gives the original destination IP address of the packet and the DPORT column give the
original destination port(s).
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).
ACTION - target[:{log-level|none}[!][:tag]]
Specifies the action to be taken if the connection request matches the rule. target 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).
action
The name of an action declared in shorewall-actions[3](5) or in /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std.
ADD(ipset:flags[:timeout])
Added in Shorewall 4.4.12. Causes addresses and/or port numbers to be added to the named ipset.
The flags specify the address or tuple to be added to the set and must match the type of ipset
involved. For example, for an iphash ipset, either the SOURCE or DESTINATION address can be added
using flagssrc or dst respectively (see the -A command in ipset (8)).
Beginning with Shorewall 5.0.3, an optional timeout can be specified. This is the number of
seconds that the new entry in the ipset is to remain valid and overrides any timeout specified
when the ipset was created.
ADD is non-terminating. Even if a packet matches the rule, it is passed on to the next rule.
AUDIT[(accept|drop|reject)]
Added in Shorewall 4.5.10. Audits the packet with the specified type; if the type is omitted,
then drop is assumed. Require AUDIT_TARGET support in the kernel and iptables.
A_ACCEPT, A_ACCEPT+ and A_ACCEPT!
Added in Shorewall 4.4.20. Audited versions of ACCEPT, ACCEPT+ and ACCEPT! respectively. Require
AUDIT_TARGET support in the kernel and iptables.
A_DROP and A_DROP!
Added in Shorewall 4.4.20. Audited versions of DROP and DROP! respectively. Require AUDIT_TARGET
support in the kernel and iptables.
A_REJECT AND A_REJECT!
Added in Shorewall 4.4.20. Audited versions of REJECT and REJECT! respectively. Require
AUDIT_TARGET support in the kernel and iptables.
?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.
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[4](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[5](5) for additional
information.
CONTINUE!
like CONTINUE but exempts the rule from being suppressed by OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).
COUNT
Simply increment the rule's packet and byte count and pass the packet to the next rule.
DEL(ipset:flags)
Added in Shorewall 4.4.12. Causes an entry to be deleted from the named ipset. The flags specify
the address or tuple to be deleted from the set and must match the type of ipset involved. For
example, for an iphash ipset, either the SOURCE or DESTINATION address can be deleted using
flagssrc or dst respectively (see the -D command in ipset (8)).
DEL is non-terminating. Even if a packet matches the rule, it is passed on to the next rule.
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.
DROP
Ignore the request.
DROP!
like DROP but exempts the rule from being suppressed by OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall.conf[2](5).
HELPER
Added in Shorewall 4.5.7. This action requires that the HELPER column contains the name of the
Netfilter helper to be associated with connections matching this connection. May only be
specified in the NEW section and is useful for being able to specify a helper when the applicable
policy is ACCEPT. No destination zone should be specified in HELPER rules.
INLINE[(action)]
Added in Shorewall 4.5.16. This action allows you to construct most of the rule yourself using
iptables syntax. The part that you specify must follow a semicolon (';') and is completely
free-form. If the target of the rule (the part following 'j') is something that Shorewall
supports in the ACTION column, then you may enclose it in parentheses (e.g., INLINE(ACCEPT)).
Otherwise, you can include it after the semicolon. In this case, you must declare the target as a
builtin action in shorewall-actions[3](5).
Some considerations when using INLINE:
• The p, s, d, i, o, policy, and state match (state or conntrack --ctstate) matches will always
appear in the front of the rule in that order.
• When multiple matches are specified, the compiler will keep them in the order in which they
appear (excluding the above listed ones), but they will not necessarily be at the end of the
generated rule. For example, if addresses are specified in the SOURCE and/or DEST columns,
their generated matches will appear after those specified using ';'.
IPTABLES({iptables-target [option ...])
This action allows you to specify an iptables target with options (e.g., 'IPTABLES(MARK
--set-xmark 0x01/0xff)'. If the iptables-target is not one recognized by Shorewall, the following
error message will be issued:
ERROR: Unknown target (iptables-target)
This error message may be eliminated by adding the iptables-target as a builtin action in
shorewall-actions[3](5).
Important
If you specify REJECT as the iptables-target, the target of the rule will be the iptables
REJECT target and not Shorewall's builtin 'reject' chain which is used when REJECT (see
below) is specified as the target in the ACTION column.
LOG:level
Simply log the packet and continue with the next rule.
macro[(macrotarget)]
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 the parenthesized macrotarget (ACCEPT, DROP, REJECT, ...) to be substituted for the
parameter.
Example: FTP(ACCEPT).
The older syntax where the macro name and the target are separated by a slash (e.g. FTP/ACCEPT)
is still allowed but is deprecated.
NFLOG[(nflog-parameters)]
Added in Shorewall 4.5.9.3. Queues matching packets to a back end logging daemon via a netlink
socket then continues to the next rule. See http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html[6].
Similar to LOG:NFLOG[(nflog-parameters)], except that the log level is not changed when this
ACTION is used in an action or macro body and the invocation of that action or macro specifies a
log level.
NFQUEUE[([queuenumber1[:queuenumber2][,bypass]]|bypass)]
Queues the packet to a user-space application using the nfnetlink_queue mechanism. If a
queuenumber1 is not specified, queue zero (0) is assumed. Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.10, the
keyword bypass can be given. By default, if no userspace program is listening on an NFQUEUE, then
all packets that are to be queued are dropped. When this option is used, the NFQUEUE rule is
silently bypassed instead. The packet will move on to the next rule. Also beginning in Shorewall
4.6.10, a second queue number (queuenumber2) may be specified. This specifies a range of queues
to use. Packets are then balanced across the given queues. This is useful for multicore systems:
start multiple instances of the userspace program on queues x, x+1, .. x+n and use "x:x+n".
Packets belonging to the same connection are put into the same nfqueue.
NFQUEUE[([queuenumber1[,queuenumber2][,bypass]]|bypass)]
like NFQUEUE but exempts the rule from being suppressed by OPTIMIZE=1 in shorewall6.conf[7](5).
NONAT
Excludes the connection from any subsequent DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] rules but doesn't generate a
rule to accept the traffic.
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).
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).
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.
TARPIT [(tarpit | honeypot | reset)]
Added in Shorewall 4.6.6.
TARPIT captures and holds incoming TCP connections using no local per-connection resources.
TARPIT only works with the PROTO column set to tcp (6), and is totally application agnostic. This
module will answer a TCP request and play along like a listening server, but aside from sending
an ACK or RST, no data is sent. Incoming packets are ignored and dropped. The attacker will
terminate the session eventually. This module allows the initial packets of an attack to be
captured by other software for inspection. In most cases this is sufficient to determine the
nature of the attack.
This offers similar functionality to LaBrea <http://www.hackbusters.net/LaBrea/> but does not
require dedicated hardware or IPs. Any TCP port that you would normally DROP or REJECT can
instead become a tarpit.
The target accepts a single optional parameter:
tarpit
This mode is the default and completes a connection with the attacker but limits the window
size to 0, thus keeping the attacker waiting long periods of time. While he is maintaining
state of the connection and trying to continue every 60-240 seconds, we keep none, so it is
very lightweight. Attempts to close the connection are ignored, forcing the remote side to
time out the connection in 12-24 minutes.
honeypot
This mode completes a connection with the attacker, but signals a normal window size, so that
the remote side will attempt to send data, often with some very nasty exploit attempts. We
can capture these packets for decoding and further analysis. The module does not send any
data, so if the remote expects an application level response, the game is up.
reset
This mode is handy because we can send an inline RST (reset). It has no other function.
ULOG[(ulog-parameters)]
Added in Shorewall 4.5.10. Queues matching packets to a back end logging daemon via a netlink
socket then continues to the next rule. See http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html[6].
Similar to LOG:ULOG[(ulog-parameters)], except that the log level is not changed when this ACTION
is used in an action or macro body and the invocation of that action or macro specifies a log
level.
The target may optionally be followed by ":" and a syslog log level (e.g, REJECT:info or
Web(ACCEPT):debug). This causes the packet to be logged at the specified level. Note that if the
ACTION involves destination network address translation (DNAT, REDIRECT, etc.) then the packet is
logged before the destination address is rewritten.
If the ACTION names an action declared in shorewall-actions[3](5) or in
/usr/share/shorewall/actions.std then:
• If the log level is followed by "!' then all rules in the action are logged at the log level.
• 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.
• The special log level none! suppresses logging by the action.
You may also specify ULOG or NFLOG (must be in upper case) as a log level.This will log to the ULOG
or NFLOG 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|zone-list[+]|{all|any}[+][-]}[:interface][:{address-or-range[,address-or-range]...[exclusion]|exclusion|+ipset|^countrycode-list}
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.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, you may use a zone-list which consists of a comma-separated list of
zones declared in shorewall-zones[4] (5). This zone-list may be optionally followed by "+" to
indicate that the rule is to apply to intra-zone traffic as well as inter-zone traffic.
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. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, exclusion is
supported -- see see shorewall-exclusion[8](5).
Except when all[+][-] or any[+][-] 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.
The above restriction on all[+][-] and any[+][-] is removed in Shorewall-4.4.13.
any is equivalent to all when there are no nested zones. When there are nested zones, any only refers
to top-level zones (those with no parent zones). Note that any excludes all vserver zones, since
those zones are nested within the firewall zone. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, exclusion is
supported with any -- see see shorewall-exclusion[8](5).
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.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.17, the primary IP address of a firewall interface can be specified by
an ampersand ('&') followed by the logical name of the interface as found in the INTERFACE column of
shorewall-interfaces[9] (5).
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.4, A countrycode-list may be specified. A countrycode-list is a
comma-separated list of up to 15 two-character ISO-3661 country codes enclosed in square brackets
('[...]') and preceded by a caret ('^'). When a single country code is given, the square brackets may
be omitted. A list of country codes supported by Shorewall may be found at
http://www.shorewall.net/ISO-3661.html[10]. Specifying a countrycode-list requires GeoIP Match
support in your iptables and Kernel.
You may exclude certain hosts from the set already defined through use of an exclusion (see
shorewall-exclusion[8](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
$FW:ð0
The primary IP address of eth0 in the firewall zone (Shorewall 4.4.17 and later).
loc,dmz
Both the loc and dmz zones.
all!dmz
All but the dmz zone.
DEST -
{zone|zone-list[+]|{all|any}[+][-]}[:{interface|address-or-range[,address-or-range]...[exclusion]|exclusion|+ipset|^countrycode-list}][:port[:random]]
Location of Server. May be a zone declared in shorewall-zones[4](5), $FW to indicate the firewall
itself, all. all+ or none.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, you may use a zone-list which consists of a comma-separated list of
zones declared in shorewall-zones[4] (5). This zone-list may be optionally followed by "+" to
indicate that the rule is to apply to intra-zone traffic as well as inter-zone traffic.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.4, A countrycode-list may be specified. A countrycode-list is a
comma-separated list of up to 15 two-character ISO-3661 country codes enclosed in square brackets
('[...]') and preceded by a caret ('^'). When a single country code is given, the square brackets may
be omitted. A list of country codes supported by Shorewall may be found at
http://www.shorewall.net/ISO-3661.html[10]. Specifying a countrycode-list requires GeoIP Match
support in your iptables and Kernel.
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. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, exclusion is
supported -- see see shorewall6-exclusion[11](5).
any is equivalent to all when there are no nested zones. When there are nested zones, any only refers
to top-level zones (those with no parent zones). Note that any excludes all vserver zones, since
those zones are nested within the firewall zone.
Except when all[+][-] or any[+][-] 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.
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. Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.13, exclusion is supported -- see
see shorewall-exclusion[8](5).
The zone should be omitted in DNAT-, REDIRECT- and NONAT rules.
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|any}[+]|[-] 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[8](5)).
Restriction: MAC addresses are not allowed (this is a Netfilter restriction).
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 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 destination bindings to be matched. Only one of the SOURCE
and DEST columns may specify an ipset name.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.17, the primary IP address of a firewall interface can be specified by
an ampersand ('&') followed by the logical name of the interface as found in the INTERFACE column of
shorewall-interfaces[9] (5).
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 modify 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.
The port may be specified as a service name. You may specify 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. Additionally, 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- {-|tcp:syn|ipp2p|ipp2p:udp|ipp2p:all|protocol-number|protocol-name|all}
Optional 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.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.19, this column can contain a comma-separated list of protocol-numbers
and/or protocol names.
DPORT - {-|port-name-number-or-range[,port-name-number-or-range]...|+ipset}
Optional 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).
ICMP types may be specified as a numeric type, a numeric type and code separated by a slash (e.g.,
3/4), or a typename. See http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#ICMP[12]. Note that
prior to Shorewall 4.4.19, only a single ICMP type may be listed.
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 SPORT list below:
1. There are 15 or less ports listed.
2. No port ranges are included or your kernel and iptables contain extended multi-port match support.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.0, an ipset name can be specified in this column. This is intended to be
used with bitmap:port ipsets.
This column was formerly labelled DEST PORT(S).
SPORT - {-|port-name-number-or-range[,port-name-number-or-range]...|+ipset}
Optional 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.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.15, you may place '=' in this column, provided that the DPORT column is
non-empty. This causes the rule to match when either the source port or the destination port in a
packet matches one of the ports specified in DEST PORTS(S). Use of '=' requires multi-port match in
your iptables and kernel.
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 ORIGDEST 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 DPORT list above:
1. There are 15 or less ports listed.
2. No port ranges are included or your kernel and iptables contain extended multi-port match support.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.0, an ipset name can be specified in this column. This is intended to be
used with bitmap:port ipsets.
This column was formerly labelled SOURCE PORT(S).
ORIGDEST - [-|address[,address]...[exclusion]|exclusion]
Optional. If ACTION is DNAT[-] or REDIRECT[-] then if this column is included and is different from
the IP address given in the DEST 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.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.4.17, the primary IP address of a firewall interface can be specified by
an ampersand ('&') followed by the logical name of the interface as found in the INTERFACE column of
shorewall-interfaces[9] (5).
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 DNAT- or
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[8](5).
See http://www.shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html[13] for an example of using an entry in this column
with a user-defined action rule.
This column was formerly labelled ORIGINAL DEST.
RATE - limit
where limit is one of:
[-|[{s|d}:[[name]:]]]rate/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst]
[name1]:rate1/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst1],[name2]:rate2/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst2]
You may optionally 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 white-space embedded in
the specification.
Example: 10/sec:20
When s: or d: is specified, the rate applies per source IP address or per destination IP address
respectively. The names may be chosen by the user and specifiy a hash table to be used to count
matching connections. If not given, the name shorewallN (where N is a unique integer) is assumed.
Where more than one rule or POLICY specifies the same name, the connections counts for the rules are
aggregated and the individual rates apply to the aggregated count.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.5, two limits may be specified, separated by a comma. In this case, the
first limit (name1, rate1, burst1) specifies the per-source IP limit and the second limit specifies
the per-destination IP limit.
Example: client:10/sec:20,:60/sec:100
In this example, the 'client' hash table will be used to enforce the per-source limit and the
compiler will pick a unique name for the hash table that tracks the per-destination limit.
This column was formerly labelled RATE LIMIT.
USER - [!][user-name-or-number][:group-name-or-number][,...]
This optional 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).
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.8, multiple user or group names/ids separated by commas may be
specified.
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
2001-2099
UIDs 2001 through 2099 (Shorewall 4.5.6 and later)
This column was formerly labelled USER/GROUP.
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.
CONNLIMIT - [d:][!]limit[:mask]
May be used to limit the number of simultaneous connections to/from each individual host or network
to limit connections. Requires connlimit match in your kernel and iptables. While the limit is only
checked on rules specifying CONNLIMIT, the number of current connections is calculated over all
current connections from the SOURCE or DESTINATION host. By default, limiting is done by SOURCE host
or net, but if the specification begins with d:, then limiting will be donw by destination host or
net.
By default, the limit is applied to each host but can be made to apply to networks of hosts by
specifying a mask. The mask specifies the width of a VLSM mask to be applied to the source address;
the number of current connections is then taken over all hosts in the subnet source-address/mask.
When ! is specified, the rule matches when the number of connection exceeds the limit.
TIME - timeelement[&timeelement...]
May be used to limit the rule to a particular time period each day, to particular days of the week or
month, or to a range defined by dates and times. Requires time match support in your kernel and
iptables.
timeelement may be:
timestart=hh:mm[:ss]
Defines the starting time of day.
timestop=hh:mm[:ss]
Defines the ending time of day.
utc
Times are expressed in Greenwich Mean Time.
localtz
Deprecated by the Netfilter team in favor of kerneltz. Times are expressed in Local Civil Time
(default).
kerneltz
Added in Shorewall 4.5.2. Times are expressed in Local Kernel Time (requires iptables 1.4.12 or
later).
weekdays=ddd[,ddd]...
where ddd is one of Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat or Sun
monthdays=dd[,dd],...
where dd is an ordinal day of the month
datestart=yyyy[-mm[-dd[Thh[:mm[:ss]]]]]
Defines the starting date and time.
datestop=yyyy[-mm[-dd[Thh[:mm[:ss]]]]]
Defines the ending date and time.
HEADERS
Added in Shorewall 4.4.15. Not used in IPv4 configurations. If you with to supply a value for one of
the later columns, enter '-' in this column.
SWITCH - [!]switch-name[={0|1}]
Added in Shorewall 4.4.24 and allows enabling and disabling the rule without requiring shorewall
restart.
The rule is enabled if the value stored in /proc/net/nf_condition/switch-name is 1. The rule is
disabled if that file contains 0 (the default). If '!' is supplied, the test is inverted such that
the rule is enabled if the file contains 0.
Within the switch-name, '@0' and '@{0}' are replaced by the name of the chain to which the rule is a
added. The switch-name (after '@...' expansion) must begin with a letter and be composed of letters,
decimal digits, underscores or hyphens. Switch names must be 30 characters or less in length.
Switches are normally off. To turn a switch on:
echo 1 >
/proc/net/nf_condition/switch-name
To turn it off again:
echo 0 >
/proc/net/nf_condition/switch-name
Switch settings are retained over shorewall restart.
Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.10, when the switch-name is followed by =0 or =1, then the switch is
initialized to off or on respectively by the start command. Other commands do not affect the switch
setting.
HELPER - [helper]
Added in Shorewall 4.5.7.
In the NEW section, causes the named conntrack helper to be associated with this connection; the
contents of this column are ignored unless ACTION is ACCEPT*, DNAT* or REDIRECT*.
In the RELATED section, will only match if the related connection has the named helper associated
with it.
The helper may be one of:
amanda
ftp
irc
netbios-ns
pptp
Q.931
RAS
sane
sip
snmp
tftp
If the HELPERS option is specified in shorewall.conf[2](5), then any module specified in this column
must be listed in the HELPERS setting.
EXAMPLES
Example 1:
Accept SMTP requests from the DMZ to the internet
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
ACCEPT dmz net tcp smtp
Example 2:
Forward all ssh and http connection requests from the internet to local system 192.168.1.3
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3 tcp ssh,http
Example 3:
Forward all http connection requests from the internet to local system 192.168.1.3 with a limit of 3
per second and a maximum burst of 10
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST RATE
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3 tcp http - - 3/sec:10
Example 4:
Redirect all locally-originating www connection requests to port 3128 on the firewall (Squid running
on the firewall system) except when the destination address is 192.168.2.2
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
REDIRECT loc 3128 tcp www - !192.168.2.2
Example 5:
All http requests from the internet to address 130.252.100.69 are to be forwarded to 192.168.1.3
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3 tcp 80 - 130.252.100.69
Example 6:
You want to accept SSH connections to your firewall only from internet IP addresses 130.252.100.69
and 130.252.100.70
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
ACCEPT net:130.252.100.69,130.252.100.70 \
$FW tcp 22
Example 7:
You wish to accept connections from the internet to your firewall on port 2222 and you want to
forward them to local system 192.168.1.3, port 22
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
DNAT net loc:192.168.1.3:22 tcp 2222
Example 8:
You want to redirect connection requests to port 80 randomly to the port range 81-90.
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST
REDIRECT net $FW::81-90:random tcp www
Example 9:
Shorewall does not impose as much structure on the Netfilter rules in the 'nat' table as it does on
those in the filter table. As a consequence, when using Shorewall versions before 4.1.4, care must be
exercised when using DNAT and REDIRECT rules with zones defined with wildcard interfaces (those
ending with '+'. Here is an example:
shorewall-zones[4](5):
#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS
fw firewall
net ipv4
dmz ipv4
loc ipv4
shorewall-interfaces[9](5):
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net ppp0
loc eth1 detect
dmz eth2 detect
- ppp+ # Addresses are assigned from 192.168.3.0/24
shorewall-host[14](5):
#ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS
loc ppp+:192.168.3.0/24
rules:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT
REDIRECT loc 3128 tcp 80
Note that it would have been tempting to simply define the loc zone entirely in
shorewall-interfaces(8):
#******************* INCORRECT *****************
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
net ppp0
loc eth1 detect
loc ppp+
dmz eth2
This would have made it impossible to run a internet-accessible web server in the DMZ because all
traffic entering ppp+ interfaces would have been redirected to port 3128 on the firewall and there
would have been no net->fw ACCEPT rule for that traffic.
Example 10:
Add the tuple (source IP, dest port, dest IP) of an incoming SSH connection to the ipset S:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT
ADD(+S:dst,src,dst) net fw tcp 22
Example 11:
You wish to limit SSH connections from remote systems to 1/min with a burst of three (to allow for
limited retry):
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST RATE
SSH(ACCEPT) net all - - - - s:1/min:3
Example 12:
Forward port 80 to dmz host $BACKUP if switch 'primary_down' is on.
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST RATE USER MARK CONNLIMIT TIME HEADERS SWITCH
DNAT net dmz:$BACKUP tcp 80 - - - - - - - - primary_down
Example 13:
Drop all email from the Anonymous Proxy and Satellite Provider address ranges:
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT
DROP net:^A1,A2 fw tcp 25
Example 14:
You want to generate your own rule involving iptables targets and matches not supported by Shorewall.
#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT
INLINE $FW net ; -p 6 -m mickey-mouse --name test -m set --match-set set1 src -m mickey-mouse --name test2 -j SECCTX --name test3
The above will generate the following iptables-restore input:
-A fw2net -p 6 -m mickey-mouse --name test -m set --match-set set1 src -m mickey-mouse --name test2 -j SECCTX --name test3
Note that SECCTX must be defined as a builtin action in shorewall-actions[3](5):
#ACTION OPTIONS
SECCTX builtin
FILES
/etc/shorewall/rules
SEE ALSO
http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html[15]
http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs[16]
http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html[17]
shorewall(8), shorewall-accounting(5), shorewall-actions(5), shorewall-blacklist(5),
shorewall-blrules(5), shorewall-hosts(5), shorewall_interfaces(5), shorewall-ipsets(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-rtrules(5),
shorewall-routestopped(5), shorewall.conf(5), shorewall-secmarks(5), shorewall-tcclasses(5),
shorewall-tcdevices(5), shorewall-mangle(5), shorewall-tos(5), shorewall-tunnels(5), shorewall-zones(5)
NOTES
1. shorewall-policy
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-policy.html
2. shorewall.conf
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall.conf.html
3. shorewall-actions
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-actions.html
4. shorewall-zones
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-zones.html
5. shorewall-nesting
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-nesting.html
6. http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html
http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall.logging.html
7. shorewall6.conf
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages6/shorewall6.conf.html
8. shorewall-exclusion
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-exclusion.html
9. shorewall-interfaces
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.html
10. http://www.shorewall.net/ISO-3661.html
http://www.shorewall.net/ISO-3661.html
11. shorewall6-exclusion
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages6/shorewall6-exclusion.html
12. http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#ICMP
http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#ICMP
13. http://www.shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html
http://www.shorewall.net/PortKnocking.html
14. shorewall-host
http://www.shorewall.net/manpages/shorewall-hosts.html
15. http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html
http://www.shorewall.net/ipsets.html
16. http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs
http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs
17. http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html
http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_logging.html
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