shorewall-nat - Shorewall one-to-one NAT file

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  RESTRICTIONS  FILES  SEE ALSO  NOTES 

NAME

nat − Shorewall one−to−one NAT file

SYNOPSIS

/etc/shorewall/nat

DESCRIPTION

This file is used to define one−to−one Network Address Translation (NAT).

Warning

If all you want to do is simple port forwarding, do NOT use this file. See https://shorewall.org/FAQ.htm#faq1 [1] . Also, in many cases, Proxy ARP (shorewall−proxyarp [2] (5)) or Proxy−NDP(shorewall6−proxyndp [3] (5)) is a better solution that one−to−one NAT.

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).

EXTERNAL − {address|?COMMENT}

External IP Address − this should NOT be the primary IP address of the interface named in the next column and must not be a DNS Name.

If you put ?COMMENT in this column, the rest of the line will be attached as a comment to the Netfilter rule(s) generated by the following entries in the file. The comment will appear delimited by "/* ... */" in the output of "shorewall show nat"

To stop the comment from being attached to further rules, simply include ?COMMENT on a line by itself.

INTERFACEinterfacelist[:[digit]]

Interfaces that have the EXTERNAL address. If ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes in shorewall.conf [4] (5), Shorewall will automatically add the EXTERNAL address to this interface. Also if ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes, you may follow the interface name with ":" and a digit to indicate that you want Shorewall to add the alias with this name (e.g., "eth0:0"). That allows you to see the alias with ifconfig. That is the only thing that this name is good for −− you cannot use it anywhere else in your Shorewall configuration.

Each interface must match an entry in shorewall−interfaces [5] (5). Shorewall allows loose matches to wildcard entries in shorewall−interfaces [5] (5). For example, ppp0 in this file will match a shorewall−interfaces [5] (5) entry that defines ppp+.

If you want to override ADD_IP_ALIASES=Yes for a particular entry, follow the interface name with ":" and no digit (e.g., "eth0:").

INTERNALaddress

Internal Address (must not be a DNS Name).

ALLINTS − [Yes|No]

If Yes or yes, NAT will be effective from all hosts. If No or no (or left empty) then NAT will be effective only through the interface named in the INTERFACE column.

This column was formerly labelled ALL INTERFACES.

LOCAL − [Yes|No]

If Yes or yes, NAT will be effective from the firewall system

RESTRICTIONS

DNAT rules always preempt one−to−one NAT rules. This has subtile consequences when there are sub−zones on an interface. Consider the following:

/etc/shorewall/zones:

#ZONE TYPE OPTIONS IN OUT
# OPTIONS OPTIONS
fw firewall
net ipv4
loc ipv4
smc:net ipv4

/etc/shorewall/interfaces:

#ZONE INTERFACE OPTIONS
net eth0 dhcp,tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians,sourceroute=0
loc eth1 tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians

/etc/shorewall/hosts:

#ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS
smc eth0:10.1.10.0/24

/etc/shorewall/nat:

#EXTERNAL INTERFACE INTERNAL ALLINTS LOCAL
10.1.10.100 eth0 172.20.1.100

Note that the EXTERNAL address is in the smc zone.

/etc/shorewall/rules:

#ACTION SOURCE DEST PROTO DPORT SPORT ORIGDEST RATE USER MARK CONNLIMIT TIME HEADERS SWITCH HELPER
?SECTION ALL
?SECTION ESTABLISHED
?SECTION RELATED
?SECTION INVALID
?SECTION UNTRACKED
?SECTION NEW
...
DNAT net loc:172.20.1.4 tcp 80

For the one−to−one NAT to work correctly in this configuration, one of two approaches can be taken:

1. Define a CONTINUE policy with smc as the SOURCE zone (preferred):

#SOURCE

DEST

POLICY

LOG LEVEL

LIMIT:BURST

smc

$FW

CONTINUE

loc

net

ACCEPT

net

all

DROP

info

# THE FOLLOWING POLICY MUST BE LAST

all

all

REJECT

info

2. Set IMPLICIT_CONTINUE=Yes in shorewall.conf(5) [4] .

FILES

/etc/shorewall/nat

/etc/shorewall6/nat

SEE ALSO

https://shorewall.org/NAT.htm [6]

https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs [7]

shorewall(8)

NOTES

1.

https://shorewall.org/FAQ.htm#faq1

https://shorewall.org/FAQ.htm#faq1

2.

shorewall-proxyarp

https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-proxyarp.html

3.

shorewall6-proxyndp

https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-proxyndp.html

4.

shorewall.conf

https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall.conf.html

5.

shorewall-interfaces

https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.html

6.

https://shorewall.org/NAT.htm

https://shorewall.org/NAT.htm

7.

https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs

https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs


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