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4.Dd October 15, 2017
5.Dt IPFW 8
6.Os
7.Sh NAME
8.Nm ipfw
9.Nd IP firewall and traffic shaper control program
10.Sh SYNOPSIS
11.Nm
12.Op Fl cq
13.Cm add
14.Ar rule
15.Nm
16.Op Fl acdeftNS
17.Brq Cm list | show
18.Op Ar number ...
19.Nm
20.Op Fl fq
21.Cm flush
22.Nm
23.Op Fl q
24.Brq Cm delete | zero | resetlog
25.Op Cm set
26.Op Ar number ...
27.Nm
28.Cm enable
29.Brq Cm firewall | one_pass | debug | verbose | dyn_keepalive
30.Nm
31.Cm disable
32.Brq Cm firewall | one_pass | debug | verbose | dyn_keepalive
33.Pp
34.Nm
35.Cm set Oo Cm disable Ar number ... Oc Op Cm enable Ar number ...
36.Nm
37.Cm set move
38.Op Cm rule
39.Ar number Cm to Ar number
40.Nm
41.Cm set swap Ar number number
42.Nm
43.Cm set show
44.Pp
45.Nm
46.Brq Cm pipe | queue
47.Ar number
48.Cm config
49.Ar config-options
50.Nm
51.Op Fl s Op Ar field
52.Brq Cm pipe | queue
53.Brq Cm delete | list | show
54.Op Ar number ...
55.Pp
56.Nm
57.Op Fl q
58.Cm table Ar number Cm create
59.Nm
60.Op Fl fq
61.Cm table Ar number
62.Cm destroy
63.Nm
64.Op Fl fq
65.Cm table
66.Op Ar number
67.Cm flush
68.Nm
69.Cm table list
70.Nm
71.Op Fl at
72.Cm table Ar number
73.Brq Cm show | print
74.Nm
75.Op Fl q
76.Cm table Ar number
77.Brq Cm add | delete
78.Ar address
79.Op Ar address ...
80.Nm
81.Op Fl q
82.Cm table
83.Op Ar number
84.Cm zero
85.Nm
86.Op Fl fq
87.Cm table
88.Op Ar number
89.Cm expire Ar seconds
90.Pp
91.Nm
92.Op Fl q
93.Oo
94.Fl p Ar preproc
95.Oo Fl D
96.Ar macro Ns Op = Ns Ar value
97.Oc
98.Op Fl U Ar macro
99.Oc
100.Ar pathname
101.Sh DESCRIPTION
102The
103.Nm
104utility is the user interface for controlling the
105.Xr ipfw 4
106firewall and the
107.Xr dummynet 4
108traffic shaper in
109.Dx .
110.Bd -ragged -offset XXXX
111.Em NOTE:
112this manual page documents the newer version of
113.Nm
114introduced in
115.Fx
116CURRENT in July 2002, also known as
117.Nm ipfw2 .
118.Nm ipfw2
119is a superset of the old firewall,
120.Nm ipfw1 .
121The differences between the two are listed in Section
122.Sx IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS ,
123which you are encouraged to read to revise older rulesets and possibly
124write them more efficiently.
125.Ed
126.Pp
127An
128.Nm
129configuration, or
130.Em ruleset ,
131is made of a list of
132.Em rules
133numbered from 1 to 65535.
134Packets are passed to
135.Nm
136from a number of different places in the protocol stack
137(depending on the source and destination of the packet,
138it is possible that
139.Nm
140is invoked multiple times on the same packet).
141The packet passed to the firewall is compared
142against each of the rules in the firewall
143.Em ruleset .
144When a match is found, the action corresponding to the
145matching rule is performed.
146.Pp
147Depending on the action and certain system settings, packets
148can be reinjected into the firewall at some rule after the
149matching one for further processing.
150.Pp
151An
152.Nm
153ruleset always includes a
154.Em default
155rule (numbered 65535) which cannot be modified,
156and matches all packets.
157The action associated with the
158.Em default
159rule can be either
160.Cm deny
161or
162.Cm allow
163depending on how the kernel is configured.
164.Pp
165If the ruleset includes one or more rules with the
166.Cm keep-state ,
167.Cm redirect
168or
169.Cm limit
170option, then
171.Nm
172assumes a
173.Em stateful
174behaviour, i.e. upon a match it will create states matching
175the exact parameters (addresses and ports) of the matching packet.
176.Pp
177These states, which have a limited lifetime, are checked
178at the first occurrence of a
179.Cm check-state ,
180.Cm keep-state ,
181.Cm redirect
182or
183.Cm limit
184rule, and are typically used to open the firewall on-demand to
185legitimate traffic only.
186See the
187.Sx STATEFUL FIREWALL
188and
189.Sx EXAMPLES
190Sections below for more information on the stateful behaviour of
191.Nm .
192.Pp
193All rules (including states) have a few associated counters:
194a packet count, a byte count, a log count and a timestamp
195indicating the time of the last match.
196Counters can be displayed or reset with
197.Nm
198commands.
199.Pp
200Rules can be added with the
201.Cm add
202command; deleted individually or in groups with the
203.Cm delete
204command, and globally with the
205.Cm flush
206command; displayed, optionally with the content of the
207counters, using the
208.Cm show
209and
210.Cm list
211commands.
212Finally, counters can be reset with the
213.Cm zero
214and
215.Cm resetlog
216commands.
217.Pp
218Also, each rule belongs to one of 32 different
219.Em sets
220, and there are
221.Nm
222commands to atomically manipulate sets, such as enable,
223disable, swap sets, move all rules in a set to another
224one, delete all rules in a set. These can be useful to
225install temporary configurations, or to test them.
226See Section
227.Sx SETS OF RULES
228for more information on
229.Em sets .
230.Pp
231The following options are available:
232.Bl -tag -width indent
233.It Fl a
234While listing, show counter values.
235The
236.Cm show
237command just implies this option.
238.It Fl c
239When entering or showing rules, print them in compact form,
240i.e. without the optional "ip from any to any" string
241when this does not carry any additional information.
242.It Fl d
243While listing, show states and tracks in addition to static ones.
244.It Fl e
245While listing, if the
246.Fl d
247option was specified, also show expired states and tracks.
248.It Fl f
249Don't ask for confirmation for commands that can cause problems
250if misused,
251.No i.e. Cm flush .
252If there is no tty associated with the process, this is implied.
253.It Fl N
254Try to resolve addresses and service names in output.
255.It Fl q
256While
257.Cm add Ns ing ,
258.Cm zero Ns ing ,
259.Cm resetlog Ns ging
260or
261.Cm flush Ns ing ,
262be quiet about actions
263(implies
264.Fl f ) .
265This is useful for adjusting rules by executing multiple
266.Nm
267commands in a script
268(e.g.,
269.Ql sh\ /etc/rc.firewall ) ,
270or by processing a file of many
271.Nm
272rules across a remote login session.
273If a
274.Cm flush
275is performed in normal (verbose) mode (with the default kernel
276configuration), it prints a message.
277Because all rules are flushed, the message might not be delivered
278to the login session, causing the remote login session to be closed
279and the remainder of the ruleset to not be processed.
280Access to the console would then be required to recover.
281.It Fl S
282While listing rules, show the
283.Em set
284each rule belongs to.
285If this flag is not specified, disabled rules will not be
286listed.
287.It Fl s Op Ar field
288While listing pipes, sort according to one of the four
289counters (total or current packets or bytes).
290.It Fl t
291While listing, show last match timestamp.
292.El
293.Pp
294To ease configuration, rules can be put into a file which is
295processed using
296.Nm
297as shown in the last synopsis line.
298An absolute
299.Ar pathname
300must be used.
301The file will be read line by line and applied as arguments to the
302.Nm
303utility.
304.Pp
305Optionally, a preprocessor can be specified using
306.Fl p Ar preproc
307where
308.Ar pathname
309is to be piped through.
310Useful preprocessors include
311.Xr cpp 1
312and
313.Xr m4 1 .
314If
315.Ar preproc
316doesn't start with a slash
317.Pq Ql /
318as its first character, the usual
319.Ev PATH
320name search is performed.
321Care should be taken with this in environments where not all
322file systems are mounted (yet) by the time
323.Nm
324is being run (e.g. when they are mounted over NFS).
325Once
326.Fl p
327has been specified, optional
328.Fl D
329and
330.Fl U
331specifications can follow and will be passed on to the preprocessor.
332This allows for flexible configuration files (like conditionalizing
333them on the local hostname) and the use of macros to centralize
334frequently required arguments like IP addresses.
335.Pp
336The
337.Nm
338.Cm pipe
339and
340.Cm queue
341commands are used to configure the traffic shaper, as shown in the
342.Sx TRAFFIC SHAPER (DUMMYNET) CONFIGURATION
343Section below.
344.Pp
345If the world and the kernel get out of sync the
346.Nm
347ABI may break, preventing you from being able to add any rules.  This can
348adversely affect the booting process.  You can use
349.Nm
350.Cm disable
351.Cm firewall
352to temporarily disable the firewall to regain access to the network,
353allowing you to fix the problem.
354.Sh PACKET FLOW
355A packet is checked against the active ruleset in multiple places
356in the protocol stack, under control of several sysctl variables.
357These places and variables are shown below, and it is important to
358have this picture in mind in order to design a correct ruleset.
359.Bd -literal -offset indent
360         ^     to upper layers     V
361         |                         |
362         +------------>------------+
363         ^                         V
364    [ip_input]                [ip_output]   net.inet.ip.fw.enable=1
365         |                         |
366         ^                         V
367[ether_demux_oncpu]   [ether_output_frame]  net.link.ether.ipfw=1
368         ^                         V
369         |       to devices        |
370.Ed
371.Pp
372As can be noted from the above picture, the number of
373times the same packet goes through the firewall can
374vary between 0 and 4 depending on packet source and
375destination, and system configuration.
376.Pp
377Note that as packets flow through the stack, headers can be
378stripped or added to it, and so they may or may not be available
379for inspection.
380E.g., incoming packets will include the MAC header when
381.Nm
382is invoked from
383.Fn ether_demux_oncpu ,
384but the same packets will have the MAC header stripped off when
385.Nm
386is invoked from
387.Fn ip_input .
388.Pp
389Also note that each packet is always checked against the complete ruleset,
390irrespective of the place where the check occurs, or the source of the packet.
391If a rule contains some match patterns or actions which are not valid
392for the place of invocation (e.g. trying to match a MAC header within
393.Fn ip_input ) ,
394the match pattern will not match, but a
395.Cm not
396operator in front of such patterns
397.Em will
398cause the pattern to
399.Em always
400match on those packets.
401It is thus the responsibility of
402the programmer, if necessary, to write a suitable ruleset to
403differentiate among the possible places.
404.Cm skipto
405rules can be useful here, as an example:
406.Bd -literal -offset indent
407# packets from ether_demux_oncpu
408ipfw add 10 skipto 1000 all from any to any layer2 in
409# packets from ip_input
410ipfw add 10 skipto 2000 all from any to any not layer2 in
411# packets from ip_output
412ipfw add 10 skipto 3000 all from any to any not layer2 out
413# packets from ether_output_frame
414ipfw add 10 skipto 4000 all from any to any layer2 out
415.Ed
416.Sh RULE FORMAT
417The format of
418.Nm
419rules is the following:
420.Bd -ragged -offset indent
421.Op Ar rule_number
422.Op Cm set Ar set_number
423.Op Cm prob Ar match_probability
424.br
425.Ar "   " action
426.Op Cm log Op Cm logamount Ar number
427.Ar body
428.Ed
429.Pp
430where the body of the rule specifies which information is used
431for filtering packets, among the following:
432.Pp
433.Bl -tag -width "Source and dest. addresses and ports" -offset XXX -compact
434.It Layer-2 header fields
435When available
436.It IPv4 Protocol
437TCP, UDP, ICMP, etc.
438.It Source and dest. addresses and ports
439.It Direction
440See Section
441.Sx PACKET FLOW
442.It Transmit and receive interface
443By name or address
444.It Misc. IP header fields
445Version, type of service, datagram length, identification,
446fragment flag,
447Time To Live
448.It IP options
449.It Misc. TCP header fields
450TCP flags (SYN, FIN, ACK, RST, etc.),
451sequence number, acknowledgment number,
452window
453.It TCP options
454.It ICMP types
455for ICMP packets
456.It User/group ID
457When the packet can be associated with a local socket.
458.El
459.Pp
460Note that some of the above information, e.g. source MAC or IP addresses and
461TCP/UDP ports, could easily be spoofed, so filtering on those fields
462alone might not guarantee the desired results.
463.Bl -tag -width indent
464.It Ar rule_number
465Each rule is associated with a
466.Ar rule_number
467in the range 1..65535, with the latter reserved for the
468.Em default
469rule.
470Rules are checked sequentially by rule number.
471Multiple rules can have the same number, in which case they are
472checked (and listed) according to the order in which they have
473been added.
474If a rule is entered without specifying a number, the kernel will
475assign one in such a way that the rule becomes the last one
476before the
477.Em default
478rule.
479Automatic rule numbers are assigned by incrementing the last
480non-default rule number by the value of the sysctl variable
481.Ar net.inet.ip.fw.autoinc_step
482which defaults to 100.
483If this is not possible (e.g. because we would go beyond the
484maximum allowed rule number), the number of the last
485non-default value is used instead.
486.It Cm set Ar set_number
487Each rule is associated with a
488.Ar set_number
489in the range 0..31, with the latter reserved for the
490.Em default
491rule.
492Sets can be individually disabled and enabled, so this parameter
493is of fundamental importance for atomic ruleset manipulation.
494It can be also used to simplify deletion of groups of rules.
495If a rule is entered without specifying a set number,
496set 0 will be used.
497.It Cm prob Ar match_probability
498A match is only declared with the specified probability
499(floating point number between 0 and 1).
500This can be useful for a number of applications such as
501random packet drop or
502(in conjunction with
503.Xr dummynet 4 )
504to simulate the effect of multiple paths leading to out-of-order
505packet delivery.
506.It Cm log Op Cm logamount Ar number
507When a packet matches a rule with the
508.Cm log
509keyword, a message will be
510logged to
511.Xr syslogd 8
512with a
513.Dv LOG_SECURITY
514facility.
515The logging only occurs if the sysctl variable
516.Em net.inet.ip.fw.verbose
517is set to 1
518(which is the default when the kernel is compiled with
519.Dv IPFIREWALL_VERBOSE )
520and the number of packets logged so far for that
521particular rule does not exceed the
522.Cm logamount
523parameter.
524If no
525.Cm logamount
526is specified, the limit is taken from the sysctl variable
527.Em net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit .
528In both cases, a value of 0 removes the logging limit.
529.Pp
530Once the limit is reached, logging can be re-enabled by
531clearing the logging counter or the packet counter for that entry, see the
532.Cm resetlog
533command.
534.El
535.Ss RULE ACTIONS
536A rule can be associated with one of the following actions, which
537will be executed when the packet matches the body of the rule.
538.Bl -tag -width indent
539.It Cm allow | accept | pass | permit
540Allow packets that match rule.
541The search terminates.
542.It Cm check-state
543Checks the packet against the state table.
544If a match is found, execute the action associated with
545the rule which generated this state, otherwise
546move to the next rule.
547.br
548.Cm Check-state
549rules do not have a body.
550If no
551.Cm check-state
552rule is found, the state table is checked at the first
553.Cm keep-state ,
554.Cm redirect
555or
556.Cm limit
557rule.
558.It Cm count
559Update counters for all packets that match rule.
560The search continues with the next rule.
561.It Cm defrag
562Reassemble IP fragments.
563If an IP packet was reassembled,
564the reassembled IP packet would be passed to the next rule for further
565evaluation.
566This action only applies to IP fragments received by
567.Fn ip_input .
568The most common way to use this action is like this:
569.Pp
570.Dl "ipfw add defrag ip from any to any"
571.Pp
572It is recommended to reassemble IP fragments before
573.Cm check-state ,
574.Cm keep-state ,
575.Cm redirect ,
576.Cm limit
577or any layer 4 protocols filtering,
578e.g.,
579.Cm tcp ,
580.Cm udp ,
581and
582.Cm icmp .
583.It Cm deny | drop
584Discard packets that match this rule.
585The search terminates.
586.It Cm divert Ar port
587Divert packets that match this rule to the
588.Xr divert 4
589socket bound to port
590.Ar port .
591The search terminates.
592.It Cm fwd | forward Ar ipaddr Ns Op , Ns Ar port
593Change the next-hop on matching packets to
594.Ar ipaddr ,
595which can be an IP address in dotted quad format or a host name.
596The search terminates if this rule matches.
597.Pp
598If
599.Ar ipaddr
600is a local address, then matching packets will be forwarded to
601.Ar port
602(or the port number in the packet if one is not specified in the rule)
603on the local machine.
604.br
605If
606.Ar ipaddr
607is not a local address, then the port number
608(if specified) is ignored, and the packet will be
609forwarded to the remote address, using the route as found in
610the local routing table for that IP.
611.br
612A
613.Ar fwd
614rule will not match layer-2 packets (those received
615on
616.Fn ether_input
617or
618.Fn ether_output ) .
619.br
620The
621.Cm fwd
622action does not change the contents of the packet at all.
623In particular, the destination address remains unmodified, so
624packets forwarded to another system will usually be rejected by that system
625unless there is a matching rule on that system to capture them.
626For packets forwarded locally,
627the local address of the socket will be
628set to the original destination address of the packet.
629This makes the
630.Xr netstat 1
631entry look rather weird but is intended for
632use with transparent proxy servers.
633.It Cm pipe Ar pipe_nr
634Pass packet to a
635.Xr dummynet 4
636.Dq pipe
637(for bandwidth limitation, delay, etc.).
638See the
639.Sx TRAFFIC SHAPER (DUMMYNET) CONFIGURATION
640Section for further information.
641The search terminates; however, on exit from the pipe and if
642the
643.Xr sysctl 8
644variable
645.Em net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass
646is not set, the packet is passed again to the firewall code
647starting from the next rule.
648.It Cm queue Ar queue_nr
649Pass packet to a
650.Xr dummynet 4
651.Dq queue
652(for bandwidth limitation using WF2Q+).
653.It Cm reject
654(Deprecated).
655Synonym for
656.Cm unreach host .
657.It Cm reset
658Discard packets that match this rule, and if the
659packet is a TCP packet, try to send a TCP reset (RST) notice.
660The search terminates.
661.It Cm skipto Ar number
662Skip all subsequent rules numbered less than
663.Ar number .
664The search continues with the first rule numbered
665.Ar number
666or higher.
667.It Cm tee Ar port
668Send a copy of packets matching this rule to the
669.Xr divert 4
670socket bound to port
671.Ar port .
672The search terminates and the original packet is accepted
673(but see Section
674.Sx BUGS
675below).
676.It Cm unreach Ar code
677Discard packets that match this rule, and try to send an ICMP
678unreachable notice with code
679.Ar code ,
680where
681.Ar code
682is a number from 0 to 255, or one of these aliases:
683.Cm net , host , protocol , port ,
684.Cm needfrag , srcfail , net-unknown , host-unknown ,
685.Cm isolated , net-prohib , host-prohib , tosnet ,
686.Cm toshost , filter-prohib , host-precedence
687or
688.Cm precedence-cutoff .
689The search terminates.
690.El
691.Ss RULE BODY
692The body of a rule contains zero or more patterns (such as
693specific source and destination addresses or ports,
694protocol options, incoming or outgoing interfaces, etc.)
695that the packet must match in order to be recognised.
696In general, the patterns are connected by (implicit)
697.Cm and
698operators -- i.e. all must match in order for the
699rule to match.
700Individual patterns can be prefixed by the
701.Cm not
702operator to reverse the result of the match, as in
703.Pp
704.Dl "ipfw add 100 allow ip from not 1.2.3.4 to any"
705.Pp
706Additionally, sets of alternative match patterns
707.Em ( or-blocks )
708can be constructed by putting the patterns in
709lists enclosed between parentheses ( ) or braces { }, and
710using the
711.Cm or
712operator as follows:
713.Pp
714.Dl "ipfw add 100 allow ip from { x or not y or z } to any"
715.Pp
716Only one level of parentheses is allowed.
717Beware that most shells have special meanings for parentheses
718or braces, so it is advisable to put a backslash \\ in front of them
719to prevent such interpretations.
720.Pp
721The body of a rule must in general include a source and destination
722address specifier.
723The keyword
724.Ar any
725can be used in various places to specify that the content of
726a required field is irrelevant.
727.Pp
728The rule body has the following format:
729.Bd -ragged -offset indent
730.Op Ar proto Cm from Ar src Cm to Ar dst
731.Op Ar options
732.Ed
733.Pp
734The first part (protocol from src to dst) is for backward
735compatibility with
736.Nm ipfw1 .
737In
738.Nm ipfw2
739any match pattern (including MAC headers, IPv4 protocols,
740addresses and ports) can be specified in the
741.Ar options
742section.
743.Pp
744Rule fields have the following meaning:
745.Bl -tag -width indent
746.It Ar proto : protocol | Cm { Ar protocol Cm or ... }
747An IPv4 protocol (or an
748.Em or-block
749with multiple protocols) specified by number or name
750(for a complete list see
751.Pa /etc/protocols ) .
752The
753.Cm ip
754or
755.Cm all
756keywords mean any protocol will match.
757.It Ar src No and Ar dst : ip-address | Cm { Ar ip-address Cm or ... } Op Ar ports
758A single
759.Ar ip-address
760, or an
761.Em or-block
762containing one or more of them,
763optionally followed by
764.Ar ports
765specifiers.
766.It Ar ip-address :
767An address (or set of addresses) specified in one of the following
768ways, optionally preceded by a
769.Cm not
770operator:
771.Bl -tag -width indent
772.It Cm any
773matches any IP address.
774.It Cm me
775matches any IP address configured on an interface in the system.
776The address list is evaluated at the time the packet is
777analysed.
778.It Cm < Ns Ar number Ns Cm >
779Matches any network or host addresses in the
780.Cm table
781specified by the
782.Ar number .
783.It Op Ar ifX
784Matches the first IPv4 address assigned to the
785.Ar ifX .
786It is intended to help matching the IPv4 address assigned to the
787.Ar ifX
788dynamically,
789e.g. by DHCP.
790.It Op ifX Ns Cm :net
791Matches the IPv4 network of the first IPv4 address assigned to the
792.Ar ifX .
793It is intended to help matching the IPv4 network of the IPv4 address
794assigned to the
795.Ar ifX
796dynamically,
797e.g. by DHCP.
798.It Ar numeric-ip | hostname
799Matches a single IPv4 address, specified as dotted-quad or a hostname.
800Hostnames are resolved at the time the rule is added to the firewall list.
801.It Ar addr Ns / Ns Ar masklen
802Matches all addresses with base
803.Ar addr
804(specified as a dotted quad or a hostname)
805and mask width of
806.Cm masklen
807bits.
808As an example, 1.2.3.4/25 will match
809all IP numbers from 1.2.3.0 to 1.2.3.127 .
810.It Ar addr Ns / Ns Ar masklen Ns Cm { Ns Ar num,num,... Ns Cm }
811Matches all addresses with base address
812.Ar addr
813(specified as a dotted quad or a hostname)
814and whose last byte is in the list between braces { } .
815Note that there must be no spaces between braces, commas and
816numbers.
817The
818.Ar masklen
819field is used to limit the size of the set of addresses,
820and can have any value between 24 and 32.
821.br
822As an example, an address specified as 1.2.3.4/24{128,35,55,89}
823will match the following IP addresses:
824.br
8251.2.3.128 1.2.3.35 1.2.3.55 1.2.3.89 .
826.br
827This format is particularly useful to handle sparse address sets
828within a single rule. Because the matching occurs using a
829bitmask, it takes constant time and dramatically reduces
830the complexity of rulesets.
831.It Ar addr Ns : Ns Ar mask
832Matches all addresses with base
833.Ar addr
834(specified as a dotted quad or a hostname)
835and the mask of
836.Ar mask ,
837specified as a dotted quad.
838As an example, 1.2.3.4/255.0.255.0 will match
8391.*.3.*.
840We suggest to use this form only for non-contiguous
841masks, and resort to the
842.Ar addr Ns / Ns Ar masklen
843format for contiguous masks, which is more compact and less
844error-prone.
845.El
846.It Ar ports : Oo Cm not Oc Bro Ar port | port Ns \&- Ns Ar port Ns Brc Op , Ns Ar ...
847For protocols which support port numbers (such as TCP and UDP), optional
848.Cm ports
849may be specified as one or more ports or port ranges, separated
850by commas but no spaces, and an optional
851.Cm not
852operator.
853The
854.Ql \&-
855notation specifies a range of ports (including boundaries).
856.Pp
857Service names (from
858.Pa /etc/services )
859may be used instead of numeric port values.
860The length of the port list is limited to 30 ports or ranges,
861though one can specify larger ranges by using an
862.Em or-block
863in the
864.Cm options
865section of the rule.
866.Pp
867A backslash
868.Pq Ql \e
869can be used to escape the dash
870.Pq Ql -
871character in a service name (from a shell, the backslash must be
872typed twice to avoid the shell itself interpreting it as an escape
873character).
874.Pp
875.Dl "ipfw add count tcp from any ftp\e\e-data-ftp to any"
876.Pp
877Fragmented packets which have a non-zero offset (i.e. not the first
878fragment) will never match a rule which has one or more port
879specifications.
880See the
881.Cm frag
882and
883.Cm ipfrag
884options for details on matching fragmented packets.
885Ane see the
886.Cm defrag
887action for reassembling IP fragments.
888.El
889.Ss RULE OPTIONS (MATCH PATTERNS)
890Additional match patterns can be used within
891rules. Zero or more of these so-called
892.Em options
893can be present in a rule, optionally prefixed by the
894.Cm not
895operand, and possibly grouped into
896.Em or-blocks .
897.Pp
898The following match patterns can be used (listed in alphabetical order):
899.Bl -tag -width indent
900.It Cm dst-ip Ar ip-address
901Matches IP packets whose destination IP is one of the address(es)
902specified as argument.
903.It Cm dst-port Ar ports
904Matches IP packets whose destination port is one of the port(s)
905specified as argument.
906.It Cm established
907Matches TCP packets that have the RST or ACK bits set.
908.It Cm frag
909Matches packets that are fragments and not the first
910fragment of an IP datagram.
911Note that these packets will not have the next protocol header
912(e.g. TCP, UDP) so options that look into these headers cannot match.
913See also
914.Cm ipfrag
915option and
916.Cm defrag
917action.
918.It Cm gid Ar group
919Matches all TCP or UDP packets sent by or received for a
920.Ar group .
921A
922.Ar group
923may be specified by name or number.
924.It Cm icmptypes Ar types
925Matches ICMP packets whose ICMP type is in the list
926.Ar types .
927The list may be specified as any combination of ranges or
928individual types separated by commas.
929The supported ICMP types are:
930.Pp
931echo reply
932.Pq Cm 0 ,
933destination unreachable
934.Pq Cm 3 ,
935source quench
936.Pq Cm 4 ,
937redirect
938.Pq Cm 5 ,
939echo request
940.Pq Cm 8 ,
941router advertisement
942.Pq Cm 9 ,
943router solicitation
944.Pq Cm 10 ,
945time-to-live exceeded
946.Pq Cm 11 ,
947IP header bad
948.Pq Cm 12 ,
949timestamp request
950.Pq Cm 13 ,
951timestamp reply
952.Pq Cm 14 ,
953information request
954.Pq Cm 15 ,
955information reply
956.Pq Cm 16 ,
957address mask request
958.Pq Cm 17
959and address mask reply
960.Pq Cm 18 .
961.It Cm in | out
962Matches incoming or outgoing packets, respectively.
963.Cm in
964and
965.Cm out
966are mutually exclusive (in fact,
967.Cm out
968is implemented as
969.Cm not in Ns No ).
970.It Cm ipfrag
971Matches IP fragment,
972even if it's the first fragment.
973See also
974.Cm frag
975option and
976.Cm defrag
977action.
978.It Cm ipid Ar id
979Matches IP packets whose
980.Cm ip_id
981field has value
982.Ar id .
983.It Cm iplen Ar len
984Matches IP packets whose total length, including header and data, is
985.Ar len
986bytes.
987.It Cm ipoptions Ar spec
988Matches packets whose IP header contains the comma separated list of
989options specified in
990.Ar spec .
991The supported IP options are:
992.Pp
993.Cm ssrr
994(strict source route),
995.Cm lsrr
996(loose source route),
997.Cm rr
998(record packet route) and
999.Cm ts
1000(timestamp).
1001The absence of a particular option may be denoted
1002with a
1003.Ql \&! .
1004.It Cm ipprecedence Ar precedence
1005Matches IP packets whose precedence field is equal to
1006.Ar precedence .
1007.It Cm iptos Ar spec
1008Matches IP packets whose
1009.Cm tos
1010field contains the comma separated list of
1011service types specified in
1012.Ar spec .
1013The supported IP types of service are:
1014.Pp
1015.Cm lowdelay
1016.Pq Dv IPTOS_LOWDELAY ,
1017.Cm throughput
1018.Pq Dv IPTOS_THROUGHPUT ,
1019.Cm reliability
1020.Pq Dv IPTOS_RELIABILITY ,
1021.Cm mincost
1022.Pq Dv IPTOS_MINCOST ,
1023.Cm congestion
1024.Pq Dv IPTOS_CE .
1025The absence of a particular type may be denoted
1026with a
1027.Ql \&! .
1028.It Cm ipttl Ar ttl
1029Matches IP packets whose time to live is
1030.Ar ttl .
1031.It Cm ipversion Ar ver
1032Matches IP packets whose IP version field is
1033.Ar ver .
1034.It Cm keep-state
1035Upon a match, the firewall will create a state, whose
1036default behaviour is to match bidirectional traffic between
1037source and destination IP/port using the same protocol.
1038The rule has a limited lifetime (controlled by a set of
1039.Xr sysctl 8
1040variables), and the lifetime is refreshed every time a matching
1041packet is found.
1042.It Cm layer2
1043Matches only layer2 packets, i.e. those passed to
1044.Nm
1045from
1046.Fn ether_demux_oncpu
1047and
1048.Fn ether_output_frame .
1049.It Cm limit Bro Cm src-addr | src-port | dst-addr | dst-port Brc Ar N
1050The firewall will only allow
1051.Ar N
1052connections with the same
1053set of parameters as specified in the rule.
1054One or more
1055of source and destination addresses and ports can be
1056specified.
1057.It Cm { MAC | mac } Ar dst-mac src-mac
1058Match packets with a given
1059.Ar dst-mac
1060and
1061.Ar src-mac
1062addresses, specified as the
1063.Cm any
1064keyword (matching any MAC address), or six groups of hex digits
1065separated by colons,
1066and optionally followed by a mask indicating how many bits are
1067significant, as in
1068.Pp
1069.Dl "MAC 10:20:30:40:50:60/33 any"
1070.Pp
1071Note that the order of MAC addresses (destination first,
1072source second) is
1073the same as on the wire, but the opposite of the one used for
1074IP addresses.
1075.It Cm mac-type Ar mac-type
1076Matches packets whose Ethernet Type field
1077corresponds to one of those specified as argument.
1078.Ar mac-type
1079is specified in the same way as
1080.Cm port numbers
1081(i.e. one or more comma-separated single values or ranges).
1082You can use symbolic names for known values such as
1083.Em vlan , ipv4, ipv6 .
1084Values can be entered as decimal or hexadecimal (if prefixed by 0x),
1085and they are always printed as hexadecimal (unless the
1086.Cm -N
1087option is used, in which case symbolic resolution will be attempted).
1088.It Cm proto Ar protocol
1089Matches packets with the corresponding IPv4 protocol.
1090.It Cm rdr | redirect Ar ipaddr Ns Op , Ns Ar port
1091Upon a match,
1092the TCP or UDP packet will be redirected to
1093.Ar port
1094on
1095.Ar ipaddr ,
1096after changing the packet's destination IP address to
1097.Ar ipaddr ,
1098and destination port to
1099.Ar port .
1100If
1101.Ar port
1102is omitted,
1103packet's destination port will not be changed.
1104This rule only applies to
1105.Cm in
1106TCP or UDP packets.
1107This rule requires
1108.Cm recv
1109and
1110.Cm dst-port ,
1111or
1112.Ar ports
1113specified after
1114.Ar dst
1115in rule body.
1116This rule will create a state.
1117See
1118.Cm keep-state .
1119.It Cm recv | xmit | via Brq Ar ifX | Ar if Ns Cm * | Ar ipno | Ar any
1120Matches packets received, transmitted or going through,
1121respectively, the interface specified by exact name
1122.Pq Ar ifX ,
1123by device name
1124.Pq Ar if Ns Cm * ,
1125by IP address, or through some interface.
1126.Pp
1127The
1128.Cm via
1129keyword causes the interface to always be checked.
1130If
1131.Cm recv
1132or
1133.Cm xmit
1134is used instead of
1135.Cm via ,
1136then only the receive or transmit interface (respectively)
1137is checked.
1138By specifying both, it is possible to match packets based on
1139both receive and transmit interface, e.g.:
1140.Pp
1141.Dl "ipfw add deny ip from any to any out recv ed0 xmit ed1"
1142.Pp
1143The
1144.Cm recv
1145interface can be tested on either incoming or outgoing packets,
1146while the
1147.Cm xmit
1148interface can only be tested on outgoing packets.
1149So
1150.Cm out
1151is required (and
1152.Cm in
1153is invalid) whenever
1154.Cm xmit
1155is used.
1156.Pp
1157A packet may not have a receive or transmit interface: packets
1158originating from the local host have no receive interface,
1159while packets destined for the local host have no transmit
1160interface.
1161.It Cm setup
1162Matches TCP packets that have the SYN bit set but no ACK bit.
1163This is the short form of
1164.Dq Li tcpflags\ syn,!ack .
1165.It Cm src-ip Ar ip-address
1166Matches IP packets whose source IP is one of the address(es)
1167specified as argument.
1168.It Cm src-port Ar ports
1169Matches IP packets whose source port is one of the port(s)
1170specified as argument.
1171.It Cm tcpack Ar ack
1172TCP packets only.
1173Match if the TCP header acknowledgment number field is set to
1174.Ar ack .
1175.It Cm tcpflags Ar spec
1176TCP packets only.
1177Match if the TCP header contains the comma separated list of
1178flags specified in
1179.Ar spec .
1180The supported TCP flags are:
1181.Pp
1182.Cm fin ,
1183.Cm syn ,
1184.Cm rst ,
1185.Cm psh ,
1186.Cm ack
1187and
1188.Cm urg .
1189The absence of a particular flag may be denoted
1190with a
1191.Ql \&! .
1192A rule which contains a
1193.Cm tcpflags
1194specification can never match a fragmented packet which has
1195a non-zero offset.
1196See the
1197.Cm frag
1198and
1199.Cm ipfrag
1200options for details on matching fragmented packets.
1201And see the
1202.Cm defrag
1203action for reassembling IP fragments.
1204.It Cm tcpseq Ar seq
1205TCP packets only.
1206Match if the TCP header sequence number field is set to
1207.Ar seq .
1208.It Cm tcpwin Ar win
1209TCP packets only.
1210Match if the TCP header window field is set to
1211.Ar win .
1212.It Cm tcpoptions Ar spec
1213TCP packets only.
1214Match if the TCP header contains the comma separated list of
1215options specified in
1216.Ar spec .
1217The supported TCP options are:
1218.Pp
1219.Cm mss
1220(maximum segment size),
1221.Cm window
1222(tcp window advertisement),
1223.Cm sack
1224(selective ack),
1225.Cm ts
1226(rfc1323 timestamp) and
1227.Cm cc
1228(rfc1644 t/tcp connection count).
1229The absence of a particular option may be denoted
1230with a
1231.Ql \&! .
1232.It Cm uid Ar user
1233Match all TCP or UDP packets sent by or received for a
1234.Ar user .
1235A
1236.Ar user
1237may be matched by name or identification number.
1238.El
1239.Sh SETS OF RULES
1240Each rule belongs to one of 32 different
1241.Em sets
1242, numbered 0 to 31.
1243Set 31 is reserved for the default rule.
1244.Pp
1245By default, rules are put in set 0, unless you use the
1246.Cm set N
1247attribute when entering a new rule.
1248Sets can be individually and atomically enabled or disabled,
1249so this mechanism permits an easy way to store multiple configurations
1250of the firewall and quickly (and atomically) switch between them.
1251The command to enable/disable sets is
1252.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1253.Nm
1254.Cm set Oo Cm disable Ar number ... Oc Op Cm enable Ar number ...
1255.Ed
1256.Pp
1257where multiple
1258.Cm enable
1259or
1260.Cm disable
1261sections can be specified.
1262Command execution is atomic on all the sets specified in the command.
1263By default, all sets are enabled.
1264.Pp
1265When you disable a set, its rules behave as if they do not exist
1266in the firewall configuration, with only one exception:
1267.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1268states and tracks created from a rule before it had been disabled
1269will still be active until they expire. In order to delete
1270states and tracks you have to explicitly delete the parent rule
1271which generated them.
1272.Ed
1273.Pp
1274The set number of rules can be changed with the command
1275.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1276.Nm
1277.Cm set move
1278.Brq Cm rule Ar rule-number | old-set
1279.Cm to Ar new-set
1280.Ed
1281.Pp
1282Also, you can atomically swap two rulesets with the command
1283.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1284.Nm
1285.Cm set swap Ar first-set second-set
1286.Ed
1287.Pp
1288See the
1289.Sx EXAMPLES
1290Section on some possible uses of sets of rules.
1291.Sh STATEFUL FIREWALL
1292Stateful operation is a way for the firewall to dynamically
1293create states and tracks for specific flows when packets that
1294match a given pattern are detected. Support for stateful
1295operation comes through the
1296.Cm check-state ,
1297.Cm keep-state ,
1298.Cm redirect
1299and
1300.Cm limit
1301options of
1302.Nm
1303rules.
1304.Pp
1305States are created when a packet matches a
1306.Cm keep-state ,
1307.Cm redirect
1308or
1309.Cm limit
1310rule, causing the creation of a
1311.Em state
1312which will match all and only packets with
1313a given
1314.Em protocol
1315between a
1316.Em src-ip/src-port dst-ip/dst-port
1317pair of addresses (
1318.Em src
1319and
1320.Em dst
1321are used here only to denote the initial match addresses, but they
1322are completely equivalent afterwards).
1323Additionally,
1324tracks are created when a packet matches a
1325.Cm limit
1326rule.
1327States will be checked at the first
1328.Cm check-state ,
1329.Cm keep-state ,
1330.Cm redirect ,
1331or
1332.Cm limit
1333occurrence, and the action performed upon a match will be the same
1334as in the parent rule.
1335.Pp
1336Note that no additional attributes other than protocol and IP addresses
1337and ports are checked on states.
1338.Pp
1339The typical use of states is to keep a closed firewall configuration,
1340but let the first TCP SYN packet from the inside network install a
1341state for the flow so that packets belonging to that session
1342will be allowed through the firewall:
1343.Pp
1344.Dl "ipfw add check-state"
1345.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from my-subnet to any setup keep-state"
1346.Dl "ipfw add deny tcp from any to any"
1347.Pp
1348A similar approach can be used for UDP, where an UDP packet coming
1349from the inside will install a state to let the response through
1350the firewall:
1351.Pp
1352.Dl "ipfw add check-state"
1353.Dl "ipfw add allow udp from my-subnet to any keep-state"
1354.Dl "ipfw add deny udp from any to any"
1355.Pp
1356States and tracks expire after some time, which depends on the status
1357of the flow and the setting of some
1358.Cm sysctl
1359variables.
1360See Section
1361.Sx SYSCTL VARIABLES
1362for more details.
1363For TCP sessions, states can be instructed to periodically
1364send keepalive packets to refresh the state of the rule when it is
1365about to expire.
1366.Pp
1367See Section
1368.Sx EXAMPLES
1369for more examples on how to use states.
1370.Sh TRAFFIC SHAPER (DUMMYNET) CONFIGURATION
1371.Nm
1372is also the user interface for the
1373.Xr dummynet 4
1374traffic shaper.
1375.Pp
1376.Nm dummynet
1377operates by first using the firewall to classify packets and divide them into
1378.Em flows ,
1379using any match pattern that can be used in
1380.Nm
1381rules.
1382Depending on local policies, a flow can contain packets for a single
1383TCP connection, or from/to a given host, or entire subnet, or a
1384protocol type, etc.
1385.Pp
1386Packets belonging to the same flow are then passed to either of two
1387different objects, which implement the traffic regulation:
1388.Bl -hang -offset XXXX
1389.It Em pipe
1390A pipe emulates a link with given bandwidth, propagation delay,
1391queue size and packet loss rate.
1392Packets are queued in front of the pipe as they come out from the classifier,
1393and then transferred to the pipe according to the pipe's parameters.
1394.It Em queue
1395A queue
1396is an abstraction used to implement the WF2Q+
1397(Worst-case Fair Weighted Fair Queueing) policy, which is
1398an efficient variant of the WFQ policy.
1399.br
1400The queue associates a
1401.Em weight
1402and a reference pipe to each flow, and then all backlogged (i.e.,
1403with packets queued) flows linked to the same pipe share the pipe's
1404bandwidth proportionally to their weights.
1405Note that weights are not priorities; a flow with a lower weight
1406is still guaranteed to get its fraction of the bandwidth even if a
1407flow with a higher weight is permanently backlogged.
1408.El
1409In practice,
1410.Em pipes
1411can be used to set hard limits to the bandwidth that a flow can use, whereas
1412.Em queues
1413can be used to determine how different flow share the available bandwidth.
1414.Pp
1415The
1416.Em pipe
1417and
1418.Em queue
1419configuration commands are the following:
1420.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1421.Cm pipe Ar number Cm config Ar pipe-configuration
1422.Pp
1423.Cm queue Ar number Cm config Ar queue-configuration
1424.Ed
1425.Pp
1426The following parameters can be configured for a pipe:
1427.Pp
1428.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
1429.It Cm bw Ar bandwidth
1430Bandwidth, measured in
1431.Sm off
1432.Op Cm K | M
1433.Brq Cm bit/s | Byte/s .
1434.Sm on
1435.Pp
1436A value of 0 (default) means unlimited bandwidth.
1437The unit must immediately follow the number, as in
1438.Pp
1439.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config bw 300Kbit/s"
1440.Pp
1441.It Cm delay Ar ms-delay
1442Propagation delay, measured in milliseconds.
1443The value is rounded to the next multiple of the clock tick
1444(typically 10ms, but it is a good practice to run kernels
1445with
1446.Cd "options HZ=1000"
1447to reduce
1448the granularity to 1ms or less).
1449Default value is 0, meaning no delay.
1450.El
1451.Pp
1452The following parameters can be configured for a queue:
1453.Pp
1454.Bl -tag -width indent -compact
1455.It Cm pipe Ar pipe_nr
1456Connects a queue to the specified pipe.
1457Multiple queues (with the same or different weights) can be connected to
1458the same pipe, which specifies the aggregate rate for the set of queues.
1459.Pp
1460.It Cm weight Ar weight
1461Specifies the weight to be used for flows matching this queue.
1462The weight must be in the range 1..100, and defaults to 1.
1463.El
1464.Pp
1465Finally, the following parameters can be configured for both
1466pipes and queues:
1467.Pp
1468.Bl -tag -width XXXX -compact
1469.It Cm buckets Ar hash-table-size
1470Specifies the size of the hash table used for storing the
1471various queues.
1472Default value is 64 controlled by the
1473.Xr sysctl 8
1474variable
1475.Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.hash_size ,
1476allowed range is 16 to 65536.
1477.Pp
1478.It Cm mask Ar mask-specifier
1479Packets sent to a given pipe or queue by an
1480.Nm
1481rule can be further classified into multiple flows, each of which is then
1482sent to a different
1483.Em dynamic
1484pipe or queue.
1485A flow identifier is constructed by masking the IP addresses,
1486ports and protocol types as specified with the
1487.Cm mask
1488options in the configuration of the pipe or queue.
1489For each different flow identifier, a new pipe or queue is created
1490with the same parameters as the original object, and matching packets
1491are sent to it.
1492.Pp
1493Thus, when
1494.Em dynamic pipes
1495are used, each flow will get the same bandwidth as defined by the pipe,
1496whereas when
1497.Em dynamic queues
1498are used, each flow will share the parent's pipe bandwidth evenly
1499with other flows generated by the same queue (note that other queues
1500with different weights might be connected to the same pipe).
1501.br
1502Available mask specifiers are a combination of one or more of the following:
1503.Pp
1504.Cm dst-ip Ar mask ,
1505.Cm src-ip Ar mask ,
1506.Cm dst-port Ar mask ,
1507.Cm src-port Ar mask ,
1508.Cm proto Ar mask
1509or
1510.Cm all ,
1511.Pp
1512where the latter means all bits in all fields are significant.
1513.Pp
1514.It Cm noerror
1515When a packet is dropped by a dummynet queue or pipe, the error
1516is normally reported to the caller routine in the kernel, in the
1517same way as it happens when a device queue fills up. Setting this
1518option reports the packet as successfully delivered, which can be
1519needed for some experimental setups where you want to simulate
1520loss or congestion at a remote router.
1521.Pp
1522.Em NOTE:
1523This option is always on,
1524since
1525.Dx 1.11 .
1526.Pp
1527.It Cm plr Ar packet-loss-rate
1528Packet loss rate.
1529Argument
1530.Ar packet-loss-rate
1531is a floating-point number between 0 and 1, with 0 meaning no
1532loss, 1 meaning 100% loss.
1533The loss rate is internally represented on 31 bits.
1534.Pp
1535.It Cm queue Brq Ar slots | size Ns Cm Kbytes
1536Queue size, in
1537.Ar slots
1538or
1539.Cm KBytes .
1540Default value is 50 slots, which
1541is the typical queue size for Ethernet devices.
1542Note that for slow speed links you should keep the queue
1543size short or your traffic might be affected by a significant
1544queueing delay.
1545E.g., 50 max-sized ethernet packets (1500 bytes) mean 600Kbit
1546or 20s of queue on a 30Kbit/s pipe.
1547Even worse effect can result if you get packets from an
1548interface with a much larger MTU, e.g. the loopback interface
1549with its 16KB packets.
1550.Pp
1551.It Cm red | gred Ar w_q Ns / Ns Ar min_th Ns / Ns Ar max_th Ns / Ns Ar max_p
1552Make use of the RED (Random Early Detection) queue management algorithm.
1553.Ar w_q
1554and
1555.Ar max_p
1556are floating
1557point numbers between 0 and 1 (0 not included), while
1558.Ar min_th
1559and
1560.Ar max_th
1561are integer numbers specifying thresholds for queue management
1562(thresholds are computed in bytes if the queue has been defined
1563in bytes, in slots otherwise).
1564The
1565.Xr dummynet 4
1566also supports the gentle RED variant (gred).
1567Three
1568.Xr sysctl 8
1569variables can be used to control the RED behaviour:
1570.Bl -tag -width indent
1571.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_lookup_depth
1572specifies the accuracy in computing the average queue
1573when the link is idle (defaults to 256, must be greater than zero)
1574.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_avg_pkt_size
1575specifies the expected average packet size (defaults to 512, must be
1576greater than zero)
1577.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_max_pkt_size
1578specifies the expected maximum packet size, only used when queue
1579thresholds are in bytes (defaults to 1500, must be greater than zero).
1580.El
1581.El
1582.Sh TABLE
1583Table provides a convenient way to support a large amount of
1584discrete host or network addresses for the
1585.Cm from ,
1586.Cm to ,
1587.Cm src-ip ,
1588and
1589.Cm dst-ip .
1590Non-existing tables never match.
1591For network addresses,
1592only CIDR form is supported.
1593.Pp
1594Tables are identified by
1595.Ar number ,
1596which ranges from 0 to
1597.Cm net.inet.ip.fw.table_max
1598- 1.
1599Default number of available tables is 64,
1600i.e. valid table ids are from 0 to 63.
1601Number of available tables can be changed by setting tunable
1602.Cm net.inet.ip.fw.table_max .
1603Max configurable number of available tables is 65535.
1604.Pp
1605Tables must be created explicitly
1606before host or network addresses could be added to them:
1607.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1608.Cm table Ar number Cm create
1609.Ed
1610.Pp
1611Host or network addresses can be added to an existing
1612table by using:
1613.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1614.Cm table Ar number Cm add Ar address
1615.Op Ar address ...
1616.Ed
1617.Pp
1618Host or network addresses can be removed from an existing
1619table by using:
1620.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1621.Cm table Ar number Cm delete Ar address
1622.Op Ar address ...
1623.Ed
1624.Pp
1625Addresses in a table can be flushed by:
1626.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1627.Cm table Ar number Cm flush
1628.Ed
1629.Pp
1630Or you can optionally flush all existing tables:
1631.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1632.Cm table flush
1633.Ed
1634.Pp
1635Each address in a table has two counters.
1636One records the number of usage,
1637the other saves the time of the last match.
1638These counters can be resetted for a specific table:
1639.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1640.Cm table Ar number Cm zero
1641.Ed
1642.Pp
1643Or you can reset counters of addresses in all existing tables by:
1644.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1645.Cm table zero
1646.Ed
1647.Pp
1648Host and network addresses in the tables are not expired by the
1649.Nm ,
1650manual intervention is required to expire addresses unused in a table
1651within the last
1652.Ar seconds :
1653.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1654.Cm table Ar number Cm expire Ar seconds
1655.Ed
1656.Pp
1657Optionally,
1658you can expire all addresses that were unused within the last
1659.Ar seconds
1660by:
1661.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1662.Cm table expire Ar seconds
1663.Ed
1664.Pp
1665An existing table can be destroyed by:
1666.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1667.Cm table Ar number Cm destroy
1668.Ed
1669.Pp
1670All existing tables can be listed by:
1671.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1672.Cm table list
1673.Ed
1674.Pp
1675All addresses in an existing table can be dumped by:
1676.Bd -ragged -offset indent
1677.Cm table Ar number
1678.Brq Cm print | show
1679.Ed
1680.Sh CHECKLIST
1681Here are some important points to consider when designing your
1682rules:
1683.Bl -bullet
1684.It
1685Remember that you filter both packets going
1686.Cm in
1687and
1688.Cm out .
1689Most connections need packets going in both directions.
1690.It
1691Remember to test very carefully.
1692It is a good idea to be near the console when doing this.
1693If you cannot be near the console,
1694use an auto-recovery script such as the one in
1695.Pa /usr/share/examples/ipfw/change_rules.sh .
1696.It
1697Don't forget the loopback interface.
1698.El
1699.Sh FINE POINTS
1700.Bl -bullet
1701.It
1702There are circumstances where fragmented datagrams are unconditionally
1703dropped.
1704TCP packets are dropped if they do not contain at least 20 bytes of
1705TCP header, UDP packets are dropped if they do not contain a full 8
1706byte UDP header, and ICMP packets are dropped if they do not contain
17074 bytes of ICMP header, enough to specify the ICMP type, code, and
1708checksum.
1709These packets are simply logged as
1710.Dq pullup failed
1711since there may not be enough good data in the packet to produce a
1712meaningful log entry.
1713.It
1714Another type of packet is unconditionally dropped, a TCP packet with a
1715fragment offset of one.
1716This is a valid packet, but it only has one use, to try
1717to circumvent firewalls.
1718When logging is enabled, these packets are
1719reported as being dropped by rule -1.
1720.It
1721If you are logged in over a network, loading the
1722.Xr kld 4
1723version of
1724.Nm
1725is probably not as straightforward as you would think.
1726I recommend the following command line:
1727.Bd -literal -offset indent
1728kldload /boot/modules/ipfw.ko && \e
1729ipfw add 32000 allow ip from any to any
1730.Ed
1731.Pp
1732Along the same lines, doing an
1733.Bd -literal -offset indent
1734ipfw flush
1735.Ed
1736.Pp
1737in similar surroundings is also a bad idea.
1738.It
1739The
1740.Nm
1741filter list may not be modified if the system security level
1742is set to 3 or higher
1743(see
1744.Xr init 8
1745for information on system security levels).
1746.El
1747.Sh PACKET DIVERSION
1748A
1749.Xr divert 4
1750socket bound to the specified port will receive all packets
1751diverted to that port.
1752If no socket is bound to the destination port, or if the kernel
1753wasn't compiled with divert socket support, the packets are
1754dropped.
1755.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
1756A set of
1757.Xr sysctl 8
1758variables controls the behaviour of the firewall and
1759associated modules
1760.Nm ( dummynet ) .
1761These are shown below together with their default value
1762(but always check with the
1763.Xr sysctl 8
1764command what value is actually in use) and meaning:
1765.Bl -tag -width indent
1766.It Em net.filters_default_to_accept : No 0
1767If set prior to loading the
1768.Nm
1769kernel module, the filter will default to allowing all packets through.
1770If not set the filter will likely default to not allowing any packets through.
1771.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.expire : No 1
1772Lazily delete dynamic pipes/queue once they have no pending traffic.
1773You can disable this by setting the variable to 0, in which case
1774the pipes/queues will only be deleted when the threshold is reached.
1775.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.hash_size : No 64
1776Default size of the hash table used for dynamic pipes/queues.
1777This value is used when no
1778.Cm buckets
1779option is specified when configuring a pipe/queue.
1780.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.max_chain_len : No 16
1781Target value for the maximum number of pipes/queues in a hash bucket.
1782The product
1783.Cm max_chain_len*hash_size
1784is used to determine the threshold over which empty pipes/queues
1785will be expired even when
1786.Cm net.inet.ip.dummynet.expire=0 .
1787.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_lookup_depth : No 256
1788.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_avg_pkt_size : No 512
1789.It Em net.inet.ip.dummynet.red_max_pkt_size : No 1500
1790Parameters used in the computations of the drop probability
1791for the RED algorithm.
1792.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.autoinc_step : No 100
1793Delta between rule numbers when auto-generating them.
1794The value must be in the range 1..1000.
1795.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.debug : No 1
1796Controls debugging messages produced by
1797.Nm .
1798.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.table_max : No 64
1799Number of available tables.
1800This value can only be changed by setting tunable
1801.Cm net.inet.ip.fw.table_max .
1802.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.state_cnt : No 3
1803Current number of states
1804(read-only).
1805.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.state_max : No 4096
1806Maximum number of states.
1807When you hit this limit,
1808no more states can be installed until old ones expire.
1809.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.track_cnt : No 3
1810Current number of tracks
1811(read-only),
1812which is created by
1813.Cm limit
1814option.
1815.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.track_max : No 4096
1816Maximum number of tracks.
1817When you hit this limit,
1818no more tracks can be installed until old ones expire.
1819.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive : No 1
1820Enables generation of keepalive packets for
1821.Cm keep-state ,
1822.Cm redirect ,
1823or
1824.Cm limit
1825rules on TCP sessions. A keepalive is generated to both
1826sides of the connection every 5 seconds for the last 20
1827seconds of the lifetime of the rule.
1828.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_ack_lifetime : No 300
1829.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_syn_lifetime : No 20
1830.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_finwait_lifetime : No 20
1831.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_fin_lifetime : No 2
1832.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_rst_lifetime : No 2
1833.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_udp_lifetime : No 10
1834.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_short_lifetime : No 5
1835These variables control the lifetime, in seconds, of states and tracks.
1836Upon the initial SYN exchange the lifetime is kept short,
1837then increased after both SYN have been seen, then decreased
1838again during the final FIN exchange or when a RST is received.
1839.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.enable : No 1
1840Enables the firewall.
1841Setting this variable to 0 lets you run your machine without
1842firewall even if compiled in.
1843.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.one_pass : No 1
1844When set, the packet exiting from the
1845.Xr dummynet 4
1846pipe is not passed though the firewall again.
1847Otherwise, after a pipe action, the packet is
1848reinjected into the firewall at the next rule.
1849.Pp
1850Note: layer 2 packets coming out of a pipe
1851are never reinjected in the firewall irrespective of the
1852value of this variable.
1853.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.verbose : No 1
1854Enables verbose messages.
1855.It Em net.inet.ip.fw.verbose_limit : No 0
1856Limits the number of messages produced by a verbose firewall.
1857.It Em net.link.ether.ipfw : No 0
1858Controls whether layer-2 packets are passed to
1859.Nm .
1860Default is no.
1861.El
1862.Sh IPFW2 ENHANCEMENTS
1863This Section lists the features that have been introduced in
1864.Nm ipfw2
1865which were not present in
1866.Nm ipfw1 .
1867We list them in order of the potential impact that they can
1868have in writing your rulesets.
1869You might want to consider using these features in order to
1870write your rulesets in a more efficient way.
1871.Bl -tag -width indent
1872.It Handling of non-IPv4 packets
1873.Nm ipfw1
1874will silently accept all non-IPv4 packets.
1875.Nm ipfw2
1876will filter all packets (including non-IPv4 ones) according to the ruleset.
1877To achieve the same behaviour as
1878.Nm ipfw1
1879you can use the following as the very first rule in your ruleset:
1880.Pp
1881.Dl "ipfw add 1 allow layer2 not mac-type ip"
1882.Pp
1883The
1884.Cm layer2
1885option might seem redundant, but it is necessary -- packets
1886passed to the firewall from layer3 will not have a MAC header,
1887so the
1888.Cm mac-type ip
1889pattern will always fail on them, and the
1890.Cm not
1891operator will make this rule into a pass-all.
1892.It Address sets
1893.Nm ipfw1
1894does not support address sets (those in the form
1895.Ar addr/masklen{num,num,...} ) .
1896.It Table
1897.Nm ipfw1
1898does not support
1899.Cm table .
1900.It Port specifications
1901.Nm ipfw1
1902only allows one port range when specifying TCP and UDP ports, and
1903is limited to 10 entries instead of the 15 allowed by
1904.Nm ipfw2 .
1905Also, in
1906.Nm ipfw1
1907you can only specify ports when the rule is requesting
1908.Cm tcp
1909or
1910.Cm udp
1911packets. With
1912.Nm ipfw2
1913you can put port specifications in rules matching all packets,
1914and the match will be attempted only on those packets carrying
1915protocols which include port identifiers.
1916.Pp
1917Finally,
1918.Nm ipfw1
1919allowed the first port entry to be specified as
1920.Ar port:mask
1921where
1922.Ar mask
1923can be an arbitrary 16-bit mask.
1924This syntax is of questionable usefulness and it is not
1925supported anymore in
1926.Nm ipfw2 .
1927.It Or-blocks
1928.Nm ipfw1
1929does not support Or-blocks.
1930.It keepalives
1931.Nm ipfw1
1932does not generate keepalives for stateful sessions.
1933As a consequence, it might cause idle sessions to drop because
1934the lifetime of the states expires.
1935.It Sets of rules
1936.Nm ipfw1
1937does not implement sets of rules.
1938.It MAC header filtering and Layer-2 firewalling.
1939.Nm ipfw1
1940does not implement filtering on MAC header fields, nor is it
1941invoked on packets from
1942.Fn ether_demux_oncpu
1943and
1944.Fn ether_output_frame .
1945The sysctl variable
1946.Em net.link.ether.ipfw
1947has no effect there.
1948.It Options
1949The following options are not supported in
1950.Nm ipfw1
1951.Pp
1952.Cm dst-ip, dst-port, layer2, mac, mac-type, src-ip, src-port.
1953.Pp
1954Additionally, the following options are not supported in
1955.Nm ipfw1
1956(RELENG_4)
1957rules:
1958.Pp
1959.Cm ipid, iplen, ipprecedence, iptos, ipttl,
1960.Cm ipversion, tcpack, tcpseq, tcpwin .
1961.It Dummynet options
1962The following option for
1963.Nm dummynet
1964pipes/queues is not supported:
1965.Cm noerror .
1966.El
1967.Sh EXAMPLES
1968There are far too many possible uses of
1969.Nm
1970so this Section will only give a small set of examples.
1971.Ss BASIC PACKET FILTERING
1972This command adds an entry which denies all tcp packets from
1973.Em cracker.evil.org
1974to the telnet port of
1975.Em wolf.tambov.su
1976from being forwarded by the host:
1977.Pp
1978.Dl "ipfw add deny tcp from cracker.evil.org to wolf.tambov.su telnet"
1979.Pp
1980This one disallows any connection from the entire cracker's
1981network to my host:
1982.Pp
1983.Dl "ipfw add deny ip from 123.45.67.0/24 to my.host.org"
1984.Pp
1985A first and efficient way to limit access (not using states)
1986is the use of the following rules:
1987.Pp
1988.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from any to any established"
1989.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from net1 portlist1 to net2 portlist2 setup"
1990.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from net3 portlist3 to net3 portlist3 setup"
1991.Dl "..."
1992.Dl "ipfw add deny tcp from any to any"
1993.Pp
1994The first rule will be a quick match for normal TCP packets,
1995but it will not match the initial SYN packet, which will be
1996matched by the
1997.Cm setup
1998rules only for selected source/destination pairs.
1999All other SYN packets will be rejected by the final
2000.Cm deny
2001rule.
2002.Pp
2003If you administer one or more subnets, you can take advantage of the
2004.Nm ipfw2
2005syntax to specify address sets and or-blocks and write extremely
2006compact rulesets which selectively enable services to blocks
2007of clients, as below:
2008.Pp
2009.Dl "goodguys=\*q{ 10.1.2.0/24{20,35,66,18} or 10.2.3.0/28{6,3,11} }\*q"
2010.Dl "badguys=\*q10.1.2.0/24{8,38,60}\*q"
2011.Dl ""
2012.Dl "ipfw add allow ip from ${goodguys} to any"
2013.Dl "ipfw add deny ip from ${badguys} to any"
2014.Dl "... normal policies ..."
2015.Pp
2016The
2017.Nm ipfw1
2018syntax would require a separate rule for each IP in the above
2019example.
2020.Pp
2021If you have large number of discrete addresses to block,
2022and the number of addresses to block keep increasing,
2023.Cm table
2024can be used as below:
2025.Pp
2026.Dl "... Initialize the blocked address list using table 0 ..."
2027.Dl "ipfw table 0 create"
2028.Dl "ipfw table 0 add 10.0.0.1 10.1.0.1 172.0.0.1"
2029.Dl "... Block the addresses in table 0 ..."
2030.Dl "ipfw add deny ip from <0> to any"
2031.Dl "... Add more addresses to table 0 any time later..."
2032.Dl "ipfw table 0 add 172.1.0.1"
2033.Dl "... Expire the addresses unused within the last 24 hours ..."
2034.Dl "ipfw table 0 expire 86400"
2035.Ss STATES
2036In order to protect a site from flood attacks involving fake
2037TCP packets, it is safer to use states:
2038.Pp
2039.Dl "ipfw add check-state"
2040.Dl "ipfw add deny tcp from any to any established"
2041.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from my-net to any setup keep-state"
2042.Pp
2043This will let the firewall install states only for
2044those connection which start with a regular SYN packet coming
2045from the inside of our network.
2046States are checked when encountering the first
2047.Cm check-state
2048or
2049.Cm keep-state
2050rule.
2051A
2052.Cm check-state
2053rule should usually be placed near the beginning of the
2054ruleset to minimize the amount of work scanning the ruleset.
2055Your mileage may vary.
2056.Pp
2057To limit the number of connections a user can open
2058you can use the following type of rules:
2059.Pp
2060.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from my-net/24 to any setup limit src-addr 10"
2061.Dl "ipfw add allow tcp from any to me setup limit src-addr 4"
2062.Pp
2063The former (assuming it runs on a gateway) will allow each host
2064on a /24 network to open at most 10 TCP connections.
2065The latter can be placed on a server to make sure that a single
2066client does not use more than 4 simultaneous connections.
2067.Pp
2068.Em BEWARE :
2069stateful rules can be subject to denial-of-service attacks
2070by a SYN-flood which opens a huge number of states.
2071The effects of such attacks can be partially limited by
2072acting on a set of
2073.Xr sysctl 8
2074variables which control the operation of the firewall.
2075.Pp
2076Here is a good usage of the
2077.Cm list
2078command to see accounting records and timestamp information:
2079.Pp
2080.Dl ipfw -at list
2081.Pp
2082or in short form without timestamps:
2083.Pp
2084.Dl ipfw -a list
2085.Pp
2086which is equivalent to:
2087.Pp
2088.Dl ipfw show
2089.Pp
2090Next rule diverts all incoming packets from 192.168.2.0/24
2091to divert port 5000:
2092.Pp
2093.Dl ipfw divert 5000 ip from 192.168.2.0/24 to any in
2094.Ss TRAFFIC SHAPING
2095The following rules show some of the applications of
2096.Nm
2097and
2098.Xr dummynet 4
2099for simulations and the like.
2100.Pp
2101This rule drops random incoming packets with a probability
2102of 5%:
2103.Pp
2104.Dl "ipfw add prob 0.05 deny ip from any to any in"
2105.Pp
2106A similar effect can be achieved making use of dummynet pipes:
2107.Pp
2108.Dl "ipfw add pipe 10 ip from any to any"
2109.Dl "ipfw pipe 10 config plr 0.05"
2110.Pp
2111We can use pipes to artificially limit bandwidth, e.g. on a
2112machine acting as a router, if we want to limit traffic from
2113local clients on 192.168.2.0/24 we do:
2114.Pp
2115.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from 192.168.2.0/24 to any out"
2116.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config bw 300Kbit/s queue 50KBytes"
2117.Pp
2118note that we use the
2119.Cm out
2120modifier so that the rule is not used twice.
2121Remember in fact that
2122.Nm
2123rules are checked both on incoming and outgoing packets.
2124.Pp
2125Should we want to simulate a bidirectional link with bandwidth
2126limitations, the correct way is the following:
2127.Pp
2128.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any out"
2129.Dl "ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to any in"
2130.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config bw 64Kbit/s queue 10Kbytes"
2131.Dl "ipfw pipe 2 config bw 64Kbit/s queue 10Kbytes"
2132.Pp
2133The above can be very useful, e.g. if you want to see how
2134your fancy Web page will look for a residential user who
2135is connected only through a slow link.
2136You should not use only one pipe for both directions, unless
2137you want to simulate a half-duplex medium (e.g. AppleTalk,
2138Ethernet, IRDA).
2139It is not necessary that both pipes have the same configuration,
2140so we can also simulate asymmetric links.
2141.Pp
2142Should we want to verify network performance with the RED queue
2143management algorithm:
2144.Pp
2145.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any"
2146.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config bw 500Kbit/s queue 100 red 0.002/30/80/0.1"
2147.Pp
2148Another typical application of the traffic shaper is to
2149introduce some delay in the communication.
2150This can significantly affect applications which do a lot of Remote
2151Procedure Calls, and where the round-trip-time of the
2152connection often becomes a limiting factor much more than
2153bandwidth:
2154.Pp
2155.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any out"
2156.Dl "ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to any in"
2157.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config delay 250ms bw 1Mbit/s"
2158.Dl "ipfw pipe 2 config delay 250ms bw 1Mbit/s"
2159.Pp
2160Per-flow queueing can be useful for a variety of purposes.
2161A very simple one is counting traffic:
2162.Pp
2163.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 tcp from any to any"
2164.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 udp from any to any"
2165.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from any to any"
2166.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config mask all"
2167.Pp
2168The above set of rules will create queues (and collect
2169statistics) for all traffic.
2170Because the pipes have no limitations, the only effect is
2171collecting statistics.
2172Note that we need 3 rules, not just the last one, because
2173when
2174.Nm
2175tries to match IP packets it will not consider ports, so we
2176would not see connections on separate ports as different
2177ones.
2178.Pp
2179A more sophisticated example is limiting the outbound traffic
2180on a net with per-host limits, rather than per-network limits:
2181.Pp
2182.Dl "ipfw add pipe 1 ip from 192.168.2.0/24 to any out"
2183.Dl "ipfw add pipe 2 ip from any to 192.168.2.0/24 in"
2184.Dl "ipfw pipe 1 config mask src-ip 0x000000ff bw 200Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes"
2185.Dl "ipfw pipe 2 config mask dst-ip 0x000000ff bw 200Kbit/s queue 20Kbytes"
2186.Ss SETS OF RULES
2187To add a set of rules atomically, e.g. set 18:
2188.Pp
2189.Dl "ipfw disable set 18"
2190.Dl "ipfw add NN set 18 ...         # repeat as needed"
2191.Dl "ipfw enable set 18"
2192.Pp
2193To delete a set of rules atomically the command is simply:
2194.Pp
2195.Dl "ipfw delete set 18"
2196.Pp
2197To test a ruleset and disable it and regain control if something goes wrong:
2198.Pp
2199.Dl "ipfw disable set 18"
2200.Dl "ipfw add NN set 18 ...         # repeat as needed"
2201.Dl "ipfw enable set 18 ; echo done; sleep 30 && ipfw disable set 18"
2202.Pp
2203Here if everything goes well, you press control-C before the "sleep"
2204terminates, and your ruleset will be left active. Otherwise, e.g. if
2205you cannot access your box, the ruleset will be disabled after
2206the sleep terminates thus restoring the previous situation.
2207.Sh SEE ALSO
2208.Xr cpp 1 ,
2209.Xr m4 1 ,
2210.Xr divert 4 ,
2211.Xr dummynet 4 ,
2212.Xr ip 4 ,
2213.Xr ipfirewall 4 ,
2214.Xr protocols 5 ,
2215.Xr services 5 ,
2216.Xr init 8 ,
2217.Xr kldload 8 ,
2218.Xr reboot 8 ,
2219.Xr sysctl 8 ,
2220.Xr syslogd 8
2221.Sh HISTORY
2222The
2223.Nm
2224utility first appeared in
2225.Fx 2.0 .
2226.Xr dummynet 4
2227was introduced in
2228.Fx 2.2.8 .
2229Stateful extensions were introduced in
2230.Fx 4.0 ,
2231and were rewritten in
2232.Dx 4.9 .
2233Table was introduced in
2234.Dx 4.9 .
2235.Nm ipfw2
2236was introduced in Summer 2002.
2237.Sh AUTHORS
2238.An Ugen J. S. Antsilevich ,
2239.An Poul-Henning Kamp ,
2240.An Alex Nash ,
2241.An Archie Cobbs ,
2242.An Luigi Rizzo .
2243.Pp
2244.An -nosplit
2245API based upon code written by
2246.An Daniel Boulet
2247for BSDI.
2248.Pp
2249Work on
2250.Xr dummynet 4
2251traffic shaper supported by Akamba Corp.
2252.Sh BUGS
2253The syntax has grown over the years and sometimes it might be confusing.
2254Unfortunately, backward compatibility prevents cleaning up mistakes
2255made in the definition of the syntax.
2256.Pp
2257.Em !!! WARNING !!!
2258.Pp
2259Misconfiguring the firewall can put your computer in an unusable state,
2260possibly shutting down network services and requiring console access to
2261regain control of it.
2262.Pp
2263Incoming packet fragments diverted by
2264.Cm divert
2265or
2266.Cm tee
2267are reassembled before delivery to the socket.
2268The action used on those packet is the one from the
2269rule which matches the first fragment of the packet.
2270.Pp
2271Packets that match a
2272.Cm tee
2273rule should not be immediately accepted, but should continue
2274going through the rule list.
2275This may be fixed in a later version.
2276.Pp
2277Packets diverted to userland, and then reinserted by a userland process
2278(such as
2279.Xr natd 8 )
2280will lose various packet attributes, including their source interface.
2281If a packet is reinserted in this manner, later rules may be incorrectly
2282applied, making the order of
2283.Cm divert
2284rules in the rule sequence very important.
2285