SHOREWALL-ROUTES(5)

✨ SHOREWALL-ROUTES ✨ (that's section 5 of the manual, bestie — a config file page 💖)

🌸 NAME 🌸

routes — a Shorewall file, and honestly? it's the one that tells your packets where to go 🗺️✨

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

/etc/shorewall[6]/routes

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so this file is kinda new-ish — it showed up in Shorewall 4.4.15 — and what it does is define routes that get added to provider routing tables. That's it, that's the job. 💅

The columns in the file go like this, in order, no skipping:

👑 PROVIDER

The name or the number of a provider that you defined over in shorewall-providers(5). And starting with Shorewall 4.5.14, you can also just put main in this column to add routes to the main routing table. main character routing table energy, honestly. 🌈

📍 DEST

The destination host address or network address. Where the packets are headed, periodt. 🎯

🚪 GATEWAY (Optional)

If you fill this in, it gives the IP address of the gateway to the DEST.

And now for the glow-up timeline:

• Starting with Shorewall 4.5.14, you may put blackhole in this column to create a blackhole route. 🕳️
• Starting with Shorewall 4.5.15, you may put prohibit or unreachable in this column to create a prohibit route or an unreachable route respectively.

🔌 DEVICE (Optional)

Specifies the device route. If neither DEVICE nor GATEWAY is given, then the INTERFACE specified for the PROVIDER in shorewall-providers(5).

🚨 Careful bestie — this column must be omitted if you put blackhole, prohibit or unreachable in the GATEWAY column. Don't do both, it's not the vibe.

⚙️ OPTIONS (Optional)

Added in Shorewall 5.0.2. The allowed options are:

• persistent — if you specify this, the route stays in the provider's routing table even when the provider is disabled. It's giving loyal. 🫶

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📁 FILES 📁

• /etc/shorewall/routes
• /etc/shorewall6/routes

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👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs[2]
• shorewall(8)

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📝 NOTES 📝

1. shorewall-providers https://shorewall.org/manpages/shorewall-providers.html
2. https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs https://shorewall.org/configuration_file_basics.htm#Pairs

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And that's the whole page, no cap. This was the Configuration Files manual, SHOREWALL-ROUTES(5), dated 09/24/2020 — go configure your routes and slay, bestie 💜✨🎀