On 05/13/2013 04:59 AM, Dash Four wrote:
> 
> 
> Dash Four wrote:
>> Suppose I have 2 interfaces in my net zone: eth0 and eth1. What 
>> shorewall seems to produce is the following:
>>
>> -A FORWARD -i eth0 -j net_frwd
>> -A FORWARD -i eth1 -j net_frwd
>> [...]
>> -A net_frwd -o eth0 -j net2net
>> -A net_frwd -o eth1 -j net2net
>>
>> From the look of things, eth0/eth1 can't be both incoming and outgoing 
>> interface at the same time, right? In other words, a packet arriving 
>> on eth0 can't get out of eth0, can it? Same goes for eth1. If so, then 
>> the above group of statements needs to be optimised.
> Please ignore the above - I wasn't thinking 4th dimensionally.
> 
> Even though there is one extra rule to traverse per interface (which 
> will never produce a match, like -i eth0 -o eth0 in the above example), 
> this approach is better because it uses a single <zone>_frwd chain for 
> all interfaces in the same zone, as oppose to creating separate chains 
> for each interface. Having said all that, net2net has a default policy 
> of ACCEPT (ignoring what I already specified in "policy"), which needs 
> to be corrected, but you already know that.

I assume that you have not specified an explicit net->net policy?

-Tom
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