On 05/12/2013 07:14 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 05/11/2013 06:38 PM, Dash Four wrote:
>>
>> Tom Eastep wrote:
>>> On 5/11/13 6:11 PM, "Tom Eastep" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>> On 5/11/13 5:51 PM, "Tom Eastep" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>> On 5/11/13 4:25 PM, "Dash Four" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>> What I have as part of my configuration on one of the servers is a local
>>>>>> zone defined for the loopback interface, which has 5 ip addresses
>>>>>> (127.0.0.1-127.0.0.5). I see that shorewall has generated local2*
>>>>>> sub-chains in my local_frwd chain, as well as *2local for all other
>>>>>> zones, but these will *never* match any traffic.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there a way this could be optimised away, perhaps with using a new
>>>>>> option for the interface ('local' maybe), indicating that this zone is
>>>>>> local and instruct shorewall not to attempt to generate all these
>>>>>> non-sensical sub-chains?
>>>>>>         
>>>>> You can make them 'server' zones.
>>>>>       
>>>> 'vserver' -- those are sub-zones of $FW
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Or, you can use NONE policies to suppress the chains that make no sense.
>>>   
>> How do I make a 'server' zone then?
>>
>> As for 'vserver', the man page tells me that "The zone contents must be 
>> defined in 'hosts'".
>>
>> Using NONE in "policy" isn't any good either, because "NONE may not be 
>> used if the SOURCE or DEST columns contain the firewall zone ($FW) or 
>> 'all'". So, according to this, my intention to use something like "local 
>> all NONE" and "all local NONE" isn't possible. Defining a NONE policy 
>> for every conceivable combination of local2* and *2local simply isn't 
>> practical.
> 
> 
> Another option then is to define 'local' using the hosts file and
> specify the 'destonly' option.

Please disregard -- just tried that and it doesn't work.

-Tom
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