# Shorewall

The Shoreline Firewall, more commonly known as "Shorewall", is high-level tool for configuring Netfilter.

You describe your firewall/gateway requirements using entries in a set of configuration files. Shorewall reads those configuration files and with the help of the iptables utility, Shorewall configures Netfilter to match your requirements.

Shorewall can be used on a dedicated firewall system, a multi-function gateway/router/server or on a standalone GNU/Linux system. Shorewall does not use Netfilter's ipchains compatibility mode and can thus take advantage of Netfilter's connection state tracking capabilities.

## Installation

Install the shorewall or shorewall6 package.

## Configuration

These settings are based on the two-interface documentation on the Shorewall web site.

Use some example configuration files that come with the shorewall package

    # cp /usr/share/doc/shorewall/Samples/one-interface/* /etc/shorewall/     # If you have a desktop-type system with a single network interface
    # cp /usr/share/doc/shorewall6/Samples6/one-interface/* /etc/shorewall6/  # If you have a desktop-type system with a single network interface, pkg shorewall6
    # cp /usr/share/doc/shorewall/Samples/two-interfaces/* /etc/shorewall/    # If you have a router with two network interfaces
    # cp /usr/share/doc/shorewall/Samples/three-interfaces/* /etc/shorewall/  # If you have a router with three network interfaces

### /etc/shorewall/interfaces

Change the interface settings to match the names used for our Ethernet devices and to allow DHCP traffic on the local network. Edit `/etc/shorewall/interfaces`

original

    net     eth0          dhcp,tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians
    loc     eth1          tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians

new

    net     wan          dhcp,tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians
    loc     lan          dhcp,tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians

### /etc/shorewall/policy

Change the policy file to allow the router (this machine) to access the Internet. Edit `/etc/shorewall/policy`

original

    ###############################################################################
    #SOURCE         DEST            POLICY          LOG LEVEL       LIMIT:BURST

    loc             net             ACCEPT
    net             all             DROP            info
    # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
    all             all             REJECT          info

new

    ###############################################################################
    #SOURCE         DEST            POLICY          LOG LEVEL       LIMIT:BURST
    $FW             net             ACCEPT
    loc             net             ACCEPT
    net             all             DROP            info
    # THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST
    all             all             REJECT          info

### /etc/shorewall/rules

DNS look-ups are handled (actually forwarded) by dnsmasq, so Shorewall needs to allow those connections. Add these lines to `/etc/shorewall/rules`

    #       Accept DNS connections from the local network to the firewall
    #
    DNS(ACCEPT)     loc              $FW

### /etc/shorewall/masq

Change the network interface to the one connected to your external (WAN) network and change the IP to the one used in your local network.

    eth0        192.168.1.0/24

#### SSH

OPTIONAL: You can add these lines to /etc/shorewall/rules if you want to be able to SSH into the router from computers on the Internet

    #       Accept SSH connections from the internet for administration
    #
    SSH(ACCEPT)     net             $FW         TCP      <SSH port used>

#### Port forwarding (DNAT)

- /etc/shorewall/rules : here is an example for a webserver on our LAN with IP 10.0.0.85. You can reach it on port 5000 of our "external" IP.

    DNAT        net        loc:10.0.0.85:80        tcp        5000

### /etc/shorewall/stoppedrules

If you have a network name other than eth1 for the network interface in /etc/shorewall/interfaces, you need to update stoppedrules with the correct name.

### /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf

When you are finished making above changes, enable shorewall by a change in it's config file `/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf`:

original

    STARTUP_ENABLED=No

new

    STARTUP_ENABLED=Yes

See man page for more info.

## Start

Start/enable `shorewall.service`.

## Traffic shaping

Read Shorewall's Traffic Shaping/Control guide.

Here is my config as an example:

- /etc/shorewall/tcdevices : here is where you define the interface you want to have shaped and its rates. I have got a ADSL connection with a 4MBit down/256KBit up profile.

    ppp0        4mbit        256kbit

- /etc/shorewall/tcclasses : here you define the minimum (rate) and maximum (ceil) throughput per class. You will assign each one to a type of traffic to shape.

    # interactive traffic (ssh)
    ppp0            1       full    full    0
    # online gaming
    ppp0            2       full/2  full    5
    # http
    ppp0            3       full/4  full    10
    # rest
    ppp0            4       full/6  full    15              default

- /etc/shorewall/tcrules : this file contains the types of traffic and the class it belongs to.

    1       0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       tcp     ssh
    2       0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       udp     27000:28000
    3       0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       tcp     http
    3       0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       tcp     https

I have split it up my traffic in 4 groups:

1. interactive traffic or ssh: although it takes up almost no bandwidth, it is very annoying if it lags due to leechers on the LAN. This gets the highest priority.
2. online gaming: needless to say you cannot play when your ping sucks. ;)
3. webtraffic: can be a bit slower
4. everything else: every sort of download, they are the cause of the lag anyway.

Category:

- Firewalls