Tom Eastep wrote:
> 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?
>   
Correct, but I do have "all all DROP" (I can't add "all+ all+ DROP" in 
policy yet, can I?).


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