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authorJacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>2010-09-24 12:52:07 -0700
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2010-09-30 11:39:34 -0400
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Changes to tor-fw-helper, some based on Nick's review
* MINIUPNPC rather than the generic UPNP * Nick suggested a better abstraction model for tor-fw-helper * Fix autoconf to build with either natpmp or miniupnpc * Add AM_PROG_CC_C_O to fix automake complaint * update spec to address nickm's concern * refactor nat-pmp to match upnp state * we prefer tor_snprintf to snprintf * link properlty for tor_snprintf * rename test_commandline_options to log_commandline_options * cast this uint as an int * detect possible FD_SETSIZE errors * make note about future enhancements for natpmp * add upnp enhancement note * ChangeLog entry * doxygen and check-spaces cleanup * create tor-fw-helper.1.txt
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diff --git a/doc/spec/tor-fw-helper-spec.txt b/doc/spec/tor-fw-helper-spec.txt
index 684f50fb1a..0068b26556 100644
--- a/doc/spec/tor-fw-helper-spec.txt
+++ b/doc/spec/tor-fw-helper-spec.txt
@@ -33,12 +33,25 @@
tor-fw-helper: FAILURE
All informational messages are printed to standard output; all error messages
- are printed to standard error.
+ are printed to standard error. Messages other than SUCCESS and FAILURE
+ may be printed by any compliant tor-fw-helper.
+
+2.2 Output format stability
+
+ The above SUCCESS and FAILURE messages are the only stable output formats
+ provided by this specification. tor-fw-helper-spec compliant implementations
+ must return SUCCESS or FAILURE as defined above.
3. Security Concerns
It is probably best to hand configure port forwarding and in the process, we
- suggest disabling NAT-PMP and/or UPnP.
+ suggest disabling NAT-PMP and/or UPnP. This is of course absolutely confusing
+ to users and so we support automatic, non-authenticated NAT port mapping
+ protocols with compliant tor-fw-helper applications.
+
+ NAT should not be considered a security boundary. NAT-PMP and UPnP are hacks
+ to deal with the shortcomings of user education about TCP/IP, IPv4 shortages,
+ and of course, NAT devices that suffer from horrible user interface design.
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT_Port_Mapping_Protocol
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play
diff --git a/doc/tor-fw-helper.1.txt b/doc/tor-fw-helper.1.txt
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index 0000000000..87607afb8a
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+++ b/doc/tor-fw-helper.1.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+// Copyright (c) The Tor Project, Inc.
+// See LICENSE for licensing information
+// This is an asciidoc file used to generate the manpage/html reference.
+// Learn asciidoc on http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html
+tor-fw-helper(1)
+==============
+Jacob Appelbaum
+
+NAME
+----
+tor-fw-helper - Manage upstream firewall/NAT devices
+
+SYNOPSIS
+--------
+**tor-fw-helper** [-h|--help] [-T|--test] [-v|--verbose] [-g|--fetch-public-ip]
+-i|--internal-or-port __TCP port__ [-e|--external-or-port _TCP port_]
+[-d|--internal-dir-port _TCP port_] [-p|--external-dir-port _TCP port_]
+
+DESCRIPTION
+-----------
+**tor-fw-helper** currently supports Apple's NAT-PMP protocol and the UPnP
+standard for TCP port mapping. It is written as the reference implementation of
+tor-fw-helper-spec.txt and conforms to that loose plugin API. If your network
+supports either NAT-PMP or UPnP, tor-fw-helper will attempt to automatically
+map the required TCP ports for Tor's Or and Dir ports. +
+
+OPTIONS
+-------
+**-h** or **--help**::
+ Display help text and exit.
+
+**-v**::
+ Display verbose output.
+
+**-T** or **--test**::
+ Display test information and print the test information in
+ tor-fw-helper.log
+
+**-g** or **--fetch-public-ip**::
+ Fetch the the public ip address for each supported NAT helper method.
+
+**-i** or **--internal-or-port** __port__::
+ Inform **tor-fw-helper** of your internal OR port. This is the only
+ required argument.
+
+**-e** or **--external-or-port** __port__::
+ Inform **tor-fw-helper** of your external OR port.
+
+**-d** or **--internal-dir-port** __port__::
+ Inform **tor-fw-helper** of your internal Dir port.
+
+**-p** or **--external-dir-port** __port__::
+ Inform **tor-fw-helper** of your external Dir port.
+
+BUGS
+----
+This probably doesn't run on Windows. That's not a big issue, since we don't
+really want to deal with Windows before October 2010 anyway.
+
+SEE ALSO
+--------
+**tor**(1) +
+
+See also the "tor-fw-helper-spec.txt" file, distributed with Tor.
+
+AUTHORS
+-------
+ Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@torproject.org>, Steven J. Murdoch <Steven.Murdoch@cl.cam.ac.uk>