Shorewall firewall

See also
fabtools.require.shorewall

Firewall status

fabtools.shorewall.status()[source]
Get the firewall status.
fabtools.shorewall.is_started()[source]
Check if the firewall is started.
fabtools.shorewall.is_stopped()[source]
Check if the firewall is stopped.

Firewall rules

fabtools.shorewall.rule(port, action=’ACCEPT’, source=’net’, dest=’$FW’, proto=’tcp’)[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule.
Examples:
from fabtools.shorewall import rule # Rule to accept connections from example.com on port 1234 r1 = rule(port=1234, source=hosts([‘example.com’])) # Rule to reject outgoing SMTP connections r2 = rule(port=25, action=’REJECT’, source=’$FW’, dest=’net’)
fabtools.shorewall.hosts(hostnames, zone=’net’)[source]
Builds a host list suitable for use in a firewall rule.
fabtools.shorewall.Ping(_kwargs)[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule for ICMP pings.
Extra args will be passed to rule().
fabtools.shorewall.SSH(_port=22, **kwargs)[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule for SSH connections
Extra args will be passed to rule().
fabtools.shorewall.HTTP(port=80, **kwargs)[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule for HTTP connections
Extra args will be passed to rule().
fabtools.shorewall.HTTPS(port=443, **kwargs)[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule for HTTPS connections
Extra args will be passed to rule().
fabtools.shorewall.SMTP(port=25, **kwargs)**[source]
Helper to build a firewall rule for SMTP connections
Extra args will be passed to rule().