1SHOREWALL-POLICY(5) Configuration Files SHOREWALL-POLICY(5)
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6 policy - Shorewall policy file
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9 /etc/shorewall[6]/policy
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12 This file defines the high-level policy for connections between zones
13 defined in shorewall-zones[1](5).
14 Important
16 The order of entries in this file is important
17 This file determines what to do with a new connection request if we
19 don't get a match from the shorewall-blrules[2](5) or
20 shorewall-rules[3](5) files. For each source/destination pair, the
21 file is processed in order until a match is found ("all" will match
22 any source or destination).
23 Important
25 Intra-zone policies are pre-defined
26 For $FW and for all of the zones defined in shorewall-zones[1](5),
28 the POLICY for connections from the zone to itself is ACCEPT (with
29 no logging or TCP connection rate limiting) but may be overridden
30 by an entry in this file. The overriding entry must be explicit
31 (specifying the zone name in both SOURCE and DEST) or it must use
32 "all+" (Shorewall 4.5.17 or later).
33 Similarly, if you have IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes in
35 shorewall.conf[4](5), then the implicit policy to/from any sub-zone
36 is CONTINUE. These implicit CONTINUE policies may also be
37 overridden by an explicit entry in this file.
38 The columns in the file are as follows (where the column name is
40 followed by a different name in parentheses, the different name is used
41 in the alternate specification syntax).
42 SOURCE - zone[,...[+]]|$FW|all[+][!ezone[,...]]
44 Source zone. Must be the name of a zone defined in
45 shorewall-zones[1](5), $FW, "all" or "all+".
46 Support for all+ was added in Shorewall 4.5.17. all does not
48 override the implicit intra-zone ACCEPT policy while all+ does.
49 Beginning with Shorewall 5.0.12, multiple zones may be listed
51 separated by commas. As above, if '+' is specified after two or
52 more zone names, then the policy overrides the implicit intra-zone
53 ACCEPT policy if the same zone appears in both the SOURCE and DEST
54 columns.
55 Beginning with Shorewall 5.2.3, a comma-separated list of excluded
57 zones preceded by "!" may follow all or all+.
58 DEST - zone[,...[+]]|$FW|all[+][!ezone[,...]]
60 Destination zone. Must be the name of a zone defined in
61 shorewall-zones[1](5), $FW, "all" or "all+". If the DEST is a bport
62 zone, then the SOURCE must be "all", "all+", another bport zone
63 associated with the same bridge, or it must be an ipv4 zone that is
64 associated with only the same bridge.
65 Support for "all+" was added in Shorewall 4.5.17. "all" does not
67 override the implicit intra-zone ACCEPT policy while "all+" does.
68 Beginning with Shorewall 5.0.12, multiple zones may be listed
70 separated by commas. As above, if '+' is specified after two or
71 more zone names, then the policy overrides the implicit intra-zone
72 ACCEPT policy if the same zone appears in both the SOURCE and DEST
73 columns.
74 Beginning with Shorewall 5.2.3, a comma-separated list of excluded
76 zones preceded by "!" may follow all or all+.
77 POLICY -
79 {ACCEPT|DROP|REJECT|BLACKLIST|CONTINUE|QUEUE|NFQUEUE[([queuenumber1[:queuenumber2[c]][,bypass]]|bypass)]|NONE}[:{[+]policy-action[:level][,...]|None}]
80 Policy if no match from the rules file is found.
81 If the policy is neither CONTINUE nor NONE then the policy may be
83 followed by ":" and one of the following:
84 1. The word "None" or "none". This causes any default action
86 defined in shorewall.conf[4](5) to be omitted for this policy.
87 2. The name of an action with optional parameters enclosed in
89 parentheses. The action will be invoked before the policy is
90 enforced.
91 Actions can have parameters specified.
93 Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.10, the action name can be followed
95 optionally by a colon and a log level. The level will be applied to
96 each rule in the action or body that does not already have a log
97 level.
98 Beginning with Shorewall 5.1.2, multiple action[:level]
100 specification may be listeded, separated by commas. The actions are
101 invoked in the order listed. Also beginning with Shorewall 5.1.2,
102 the policy-action list can be prefixed with a plus sign ("+")
103 indicating that the listed actions are in addition to those listed
104 in the related _DEFAULT setting in shorewall.conf[4](5).
105 Possible policies are:
107 ACCEPT
109 Accept the connection.
110 DROP
112 Ignore the connection request.
113 REJECT
115 For TCP, send RST. For all other, send an "unreachable" ICMP.
116 BLACKLIST
118 Added in Shorewall 5.1.1 and requires that the
119 DYNAMIC_BLACKLIST setting in shorewall.conf[4](5) specifies
120 ipset-based dynamic blacklisting. The SOURCE IP address is
121 added to the blacklist ipset and the connection request is
122 ignored.
123 QUEUE
125 Queue the request for a user-space application such as
126 Snort-inline.
127 NFQUEUE
129 Queue the request for a user-space application using the
130 nfnetlink_queue mechanism. If a queuenumber1 is not given,
131 queue zero (0) is assumed. Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.10, a
132 second queue number (queuenumber2) may be given. This specifies
133 a range of queues to use. Packets are then balanced across the
134 given queues. This is useful for multicore systems: start
135 multiple instances of the userspace program on queues x, x+1,
136 .. x+n and use "x:x+n". Packets belonging to the same
137 connection are put into the same nfqueue. Beginning with
138 Shorewall 5.1.0, queuenumber2 may be followed by the letter 'c'
139 to indicate that the CPU ID will be used as an index to map
140 packets to the queues. The idea is that you can improve
141 performance if there's a queue per CPU. Requires the NFQUEUE
142 CPU Fanout capability in your kernel and iptables.
143 Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.10, the keyword bypass can be
145 given. By default, if no userspace program is listening on an
146 NFQUEUE, then all packets that are to be queued are dropped.
147 When this option is used, the NFQUEUE rule behaves like ACCEPT
148 instead.
149 CONTINUE
151 Pass the connection request past any other rules that it might
152 also match (where the source or destination zone in those rules
153 is a superset of the SOURCE or DEST in this policy). See
154 shorewall-nesting[5](5) for additional information.
155 NONE
157 Assume that there will never be any packets from this SOURCE to
158 this DEST. Shorewall will not create any infrastructure to
159 handle such packets and you may not have any rules with this
160 SOURCE and DEST in the /etc/shorewall/rules file. If such a
161 packet is received, the result is undefined. NONE may not be
162 used if the SOURCE or DEST columns contain the firewall zone
163 ($FW) or "all".
164 LOGLEVEL (loglevel) - [log-level|ULOG|NFLOG]
166 Optional - if supplied, each connection handled under the default
167 POLICY is logged at that level. If not supplied, no log message is
168 generated. See syslog.conf(5) for a description of log levels.
169 You may also specify ULOG or NFLOG (must be in upper case). This
171 will log to the ULOG or NFLOG target and will send to a separate
172 log through use of ulogd
173 (http://www.netfilter.org/projects/ulogd/index.html).
174 For a description of logging, see shorewall-logging(5)[6].
176 If you don't want to log but need to specify the following column,
178 place "-" here.
179 RATE (rate) - [-|limit]
181 where limit is one of:
182 [-|[{s|d}[/vlsm]:[[name][(ht-buckets,ht-max)]:]]]rate/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst]
183 [name1:]rate1/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst1],[name2:]rate2/{sec|min|hour|day}[:burst2]
184 If passed, specifies the maximum TCP connection rate and the size
185 of an acceptable burst. If not specified, TCP connections are not
186 limited. If the burst parameter is omitted, a value of 5 is
187 assumed.
188 When s: or d: is specified, the rate applies per source IP address
190 or per destination IP address respectively. The name may be chosen
191 by the user and specifies a hash table to be used to count matching
192 connections. If not give, the name shorewall is assumed. Where more
193 than one POLICY or rule specifies the same name, the connections
194 counts for the policies are aggregated and the individual rates
195 apply to the aggregated count. Beginning with Shorewall 5.2.1, the
196 s or d may be followed by a slash ("/") and an integer vlsm. When a
197 vlsm is specified, all source or destination addresses encountered
198 will be grouped according to the given prefix length and the
199 so-created subnet will be subject to the rate limit.
200 Beginning with Shorewall 4.6.5, two limits may be specified,
202 separated by a comma. In this case, the first limit (name1, rate1,
203 burst1) specifies the per-source IP limit and the second limit
204 specifies the per-destination IP limit.
205 Example: client:10/sec:20,:60/sec:100
207 Beginning with Shorewall 5.2.1, the table name, if any, may be
209 followed by two integers separated by commas and enclosed in
210 parentheses. The first integer (ht-buckets) specifies the number of
211 buckets in the generated hash table. The second integer (ht-max)
212 specifies the maximum number of entries in the hash table.
213 Example: s:client(1024,65536):10/sec
215 CONNLIMIT - limit[:mask]
217 May be used to limit the number of simultaneous connections from
218 each individual host to limit connections. While the limit is only
219 checked on connections to which this policy could apply, the number
220 of current connections is calculated over all current connections
221 from the SOURCE host. By default, the limit is applied to each host
222 individually but can be made to apply to networks of hosts by
223 specifying a mask. The mask specifies the width of a VLSM mask to
224 be applied to the source address; the number of current connections
225 is then taken over all hosts in the subnet source-address/mask.
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228 1. All connections from the local network to the internet are allowed
229 2. All connections from the internet are ignored but logged at syslog
231 level KERNEL.INFO.
232 3. All other connection requests are rejected and logged at level
234 KERNEL.INFO.
235 #SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG BURST:LIMIT
237 # LEVEL
238 loc net ACCEPT
239 net all DROP info
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241 # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
242 #
243 all all REJECT info
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246 /etc/shorewall/policy
247 /etc/shorewall6/policy
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251 https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs[7]
252 shorewall(8)
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256 1. shorewall-zones
257 https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-zones.html
258 2. shorewall-blrules
260 https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-blrules.html
261 3. shorewall-rules
263 https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-rules.html
264 4. shorewall.conf
266 https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall.conf.html
267 5. shorewall-nesting
269 https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-nesting.html
270 6. shorewall-logging(5)
272 https://shorewall.org/shorewall_logging.html
273 7. https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs
275 https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs
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