Tom Eastep wrote:
> Tuomo Soini wrote:
>> Tom Eastep wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone have something on their wish list that we might want to add to 4.4?
>> I'd like to suggest possibility to limit meaning of interface on
>> interfaces file so you could limit interface to certain network only.
>> And other thing: when interface is configured to some address this way
>> this same source address would be disabled on other interfaces by
>> default. So that ingress and egress filtering would be done properly by
>> netfilter.
>>
>> I know this kind of configuration is not optiomal for one machine only
>> firewall configuration but it's very good for real firewall setups.
>>
>> Other way to get this is to change documentation for two interface and
>> three interface guides to prefer hosts over interfaces. But I'd really
>> like to see this done more secure way one way or another.
>>
> 
> Doesn't simply setting the 'routefilter' option on the internal
> interfaces do this for you? We can certainly change the two- and
> three-interface samples to do that.
> 
> Currently, they set 'routefilter' on the 'net' interface which is silly
> since that interface will have the default route.

Shorewall 4.3.5 and 4.3.6 have a nets=(...) option that does what Tuomo
suggested above.

-Tom
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