Shorewall6 5.0 Manpages

Tom Eastep

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2016/07/02


Table of Contents

Section 5 — Files and Concepts
Section 8 — Administrative Commands

Warning

These manpages are for Shorewall6 5.0 and later only. They describe features and options not available on earlier releases.The manpages for Shorewall 4.4-4.6 are available here.

Section 5 — Files and Concepts

accounting - Define IP accounting rules.
actions - Declare user-defined actions.
blrules - shorewall6 Blacklist file.
conntrack - Specify helpers for connections or exempt certain traffic from netfilter connection tracking.
exclusion - Excluding hosts from a network or zone
hosts - Define multiple zones accessed through a single interface
interfaces - Define the interfaces on the system and optionally associate them with zones.
maclist - Define MAC verification.
mangle - Supersedes tcrules and describes packet/connection marking.
masq - Define Masquerade/SNAT
modules - Specify which kernel modules to load.
nat - (added in Shorewall 4.6.4) Specify 1:1 NAT
nesting - How to define nested zones.
params - Assign values to shell variables used in other files.
policy - Define high-level policies for connections between zones.
providers - Define routing tables, usually for multiple Internet links.
proxyndp - Defines Proxy NDP
rtrules - Define routing rules.
routes - (Added in Shorewall 4.4.15) Add additional routes to provider routing tables.
rules - Specify exceptions to policies, including DNAT and REDIRECT.
secmarks - Attached an SELinux context to a packet.
stoppedrules - Specify connections to be permitted when Shorewall6 is in the stopped state (Added in Shoreall 4.5.8).
tcclasses - Define htb classes for traffic shaping.
tcdevices - Specify speed of devices for traffic shaping.
tcinterfaces - Specify interfaces for simplified traffic shaping.
tcpri - Classify traffic for simplified traffic shaping.
tunnels - Define VPN connections with endpoints on the firewall.
shorewall6.conf - Specify values for global Shorewall6 options.
shorewall6-lite.conf - Specify values for global Shorewall6 Lite options.
vardir - Redefine the directory where Shorewall6 keeps its state information.
vardir-lite - Redefine the directory where Shorewall6 Lite keeps its state information.
zones - Declare Shorewall6 zones.

Section 8 — Administrative Commands

shorewall6 - /sbin/shorewall6 command syntax and semantics.
shorewall6-lite - /sbin/shorewall6-lite command syntax and semantics.