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NAME

firewalld.richlanguage - Rich Language Documentation

DESCRIPTION

With the rich language more complex firewall rules can be created in an easy to understand way. The language uses keywords with values and is an abstract representation of ip*tables rules.

The rich language extends the current zone elements (service, port, icmp-block, icmp-type, masquerade, forward-port and source-port) with additional source and destination addresses, logging, actions and limits for logs and actions.

This page describes the rich language used in the command line client and D-Bus interface. For information about the rich language representation used in the zone configuration files, please have a look at firewalld.zone(5).

A rule is part of a zone. One zone can contain several rules. If some rules interact/contradict, the first rule that matches "wins".

General rule structure

rule
[source]
[destination]
service|port|protocol|icmp-block|icmp-type|masquerade|forward-port|source-port
[log]
[audit]
[accept|reject|drop|mark]

The complete rule is provided as a single line string. A destination is allowed here as long as it does not conflict with the destination of a service.

Rule structure for source black or white listing

rule
source
[log]
[audit]
accept|reject|drop|mark

This is used to grant or limit access from a source to this machine or machines that are reachable by this machine. A destination is not allowed here.

Important information about element options: Options for elements in a rule need to be added exactly after the element. If the option is placed somewhere else it might be used for another element as far as it matches the options of the other element or will result in a rule error.

Rule

rule [family="ipv4|ipv6"] [priority="priority"]

If the rule family is provided, it can be either "ipv4" or "ipv6", which limits the rule to IPv4 or IPv6. If the rule family is not provided, the rule will be added for IPv4 and IPv6. If source or destination addresses are used in a rule, then the rule family need to be provided. This is also the case for port/packet forwarding.

If the rule priority is provided, it can be in the range of -32768 to 32767 where lower values have higher precendence. Rich rules are sorted by priority. Ordering for rules with the same priority value is undefined. A negative priority value will be executed before other firewalld primitives. A positive priority value will be executed after other firewalld primitives. A priority value of 0 will place the rule in a chain based on the action as per the "Information about logging and actions" below.

Source

source [not] address="address[/mask]"|mac="mac-address"|ipset="ipset"

With the source address the origin of a connection attempt can be limited to the source address. An address is either a single IP address, or a network IP address, a MAC address or an IPSet. The address has to match the rule family (IPv4/IPv6). Subnet mask is expressed in either dot-decimal (/x.x.x.x) or prefix (/x) notations for IPv4, and in prefix notation (/x) for IPv6 network addresses. It is possible to invert the sense of an address by adding not before address. All but the specified address will match then.

Destination

destination [not] address="address[/mask]"

With the destination address the target can be limited to the destination address. The destination address is using the same syntax as the source address.

The use of source and destination addresses is optional and the use of a destination addresses is not possible with all elements. This depends on the use of destination addresses for example in service entries.

Service

service name="service name"

The service service name will be added to the rule. The service name is one of the firewalld provided services. To get a list of the supported services, use firewall-cmd --get-services.

If a service provides a destination address, it will conflict with a destination address in the rule and will result in an error. The services using destination addresses internally are mostly services using multicast.

Port

port port="port value" protocol="tcp|udp"

The port port value can either be a single port number portid or a port range portid-portid. The protocol can either be tcp or udp.

Protocol

protocol value="protocol value"

The protocol value can be either a protocol id number or a protocol name. For allowed protocol entries, please have a look at /etc/protocols.

ICMP-Block

icmp-block name="icmptype name"

The icmptype is the one of the icmp types firewalld supports. To get a listing of supported icmp types: firewall-cmd --get-icmptypes

It is not allowed to specify an action here. icmp-block uses the action reject internally.

Masquerade

masquerade

Turn on masquerading in the rule. A source and also a destination address can be provided to limit masquerading to this area.

It is not allowed to specify an action here.

Note: IP forwarding will be implicitly enabled.

ICMP-Type

icmp-type name="icmptype name"

The icmptype is the one of the icmp types firewalld supports. To get a listing of supported icmp types: firewall-cmd --get-icmptypes

Forward-Port

forward-port port="port value" protocol="tcp|udp" to-port="port value" to-addr="address"

Forward port/packets from local port value with protocol "tcp" or "udp" to either another port locally or to another machine or to another port on another machine.

The port value can either be a single port number or a port range portid-portid. The to-addr is an IP address.

It is not allowed to specify an action here. forward-port uses the action accept internally.

Note: IP forwarding will be implicitly enabled if to-addr is specified.

Source-Port

source-port port="port value" protocol="tcp|udp"

The source-port port value can either be a single port number portid or a port range portid-portid. The protocol can either be tcp or udp.

Log

log [prefix="prefix text"] [level="log level"] [limit value="rate/duration"]

Log new connection attempts to the rule with kernel logging for example in syslog. You can define a prefix text that will be added to the log message as a prefix. Log level can be one of "emerg", "alert", "crit", "error", "warning", "notice", "info" or "debug", where default (i.e. if there's no one specified) is "warning". See syslog(3) for description of levels. See Limit section for description of limit tag.

Audit

audit [limit value="rate/duration"]

Audit provides an alternative way for logging using audit records sent to the service auditd. Audit type will be discovered from the rule action automatically. Use of audit is optional. See Limit section for description of limit tag.

Action
An action can be one of accept, reject, drop or mark.

The rule can either contain an element or also a source only. If the rule contains an element, then new connection matching the element will be handled with the action. If the rule does not contain an element, then everything from the source address will be handled with the action.

accept [limit value="rate/duration"]