DESCRIPTION¶
This file is used to define zones in terms of subnets and/or
    individual IP addresses. Most simple setups don't need to (should not) place
    anything in this file.
The order of entries in this file is not significant in
    determining zone composition. Rather, the order that the zones are declared
    in shorewall-zones[1](5) determines the order in which the records in
    this file are interpreted.
Warning
The only time that you need this file is when you have more than
    one zone connected through a single interface.
 
Warning
If you have an entry for a zone and interface in
    shorewall-interfaces[2](5) then do not include any entries in this
    file for that same (zone, interface) pair.
 
The columns in the file are as follows.
ZONE - zone-name
The name of a zone declared in
  shorewall-zones[1](5). You may not list the firewall zone in this
  column.
HOST(S) -
    interface:{[{address-or-range[,address-or-range]...|+ipset|dynamic}[exclusion]
The name of an interface defined in the
  
shorewall-interfaces[2](5) file followed by a colon (":") and
  a comma-separated list whose elements are either:
 1.The IP address of a host.
 2.A network in CIDR format.
 3.An IP address range of the form
  low.address-high.address. Your kernel and iptables must have
  iprange match support.
 4.The name of an ipset.
 5.The word dynamic which makes the zone dynamic
  in that you can use the shorewall add and shorewall delete
  commands to change to composition of the zone.
You may also exclude certain hosts through use of an
    exclusion (see shorewall-exclusion[3](5).
 
OPTIONS (Optional) -
    [option[,option]...]
A comma-separated list of options from the following
  list. The order in which you list the options is not significant but the list
  must have no embedded white-space.
blacklist
Check packets arriving on this port against the
  shorewall-blacklist[4](5) file.
broadcast
Used when you want to include limited broadcasts
  (destination IP address 255.255.255.255) from the firewall to this zone. Only
  necessary when:
 1.The network specified in the HOST(S) column does not
  include 255.255.255.255.
 2.The zone does not have an entry for this interface in
  shorewall-interfaces[2](5).
 
destonly
Normally used with the Multi-cast IP address range
  (224.0.0.0/4). Specifies that traffic will be sent to the specified net(s) but
  that no traffic will be received from the net(s).
ipsec
The zone is accessed via a kernel 2.6 ipsec SA. Note that
  if the zone named in the ZONE column is specified as an IPSEC zone in the
  shorewall-zones[1](5) file then you do NOT need to specify the 'ipsec'
  option here.
maclist
Connection requests from these hosts are compared against
  the contents of shorewall-maclist[5](5). If this option is specified,
  the interface must be an Ethernet NIC or equivalent and must be up before
  Shorewall is started.
mss=mss
Added in Shorewall 4.5.2. When present, causes the TCP
  mss for new connections to/from the hosts given in the HOST(S) column to be
  clamped at the specified mss.
nosmurfs
This option only makes sense for ports on a bridge.
Filter packets for smurfs (packets with a broadcast address as the
    source).
Smurfs will be optionally logged based on the setting of
    SMURF_LOG_LEVEL in shorewall.conf[6](5). After logging, the packets
    are dropped.
 
routeback
Shorewall should set up the infrastructure to pass
  packets from this/these address(es) back to themselves. This is necessary if
  hosts in this group use the services of a transparent proxy that is a member
  of the group or if DNAT is used to send requests originating from this group
  to a server in the group.
tcpflags
Packets arriving from these hosts are checked for certain
  illegal combinations of TCP flags. Packets found to have such a combination of
  flags are handled according to the setting of TCP_FLAGS_DISPOSITION after
  having been logged according to the setting of TCP_FLAGS_LOG_LEVEL.