Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-10 at 07:41 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> The 'Drop' chain is generated by the Drop action which gets called because 
>> it is
>> the default action for DROP policies
>> (http://www.shorewall.net/Actions.html#id2500209).
> 
> Indeed.
> 
>> In other words, it gets
>> called just before a DROP policy is enforced.
> 
> Right.
> 
>> So waiting until then to do MAC
>> filtration wouldn't work because traffic from banned MAC addresses might have
>> already been allowed by ACCEPT, DNAT, or REDIRECT rules.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> INPUT->eth0_in->eth0_mac
> 
>> I'll consider this an enhancement request to allow log filtration of messages
>> generated by maclist and try to get something into 3.3.
> 
> How about jumping to the Drop table right before the
> 
> LOG  all  --  *  *  0.0.0.0/0  0.0.0.0/0  LOG flags 0 level 6 prefix 
> `Shorewall:eth0_mac:REJECT:'

A) There is no guarantee that there will even be a Drop chain.
B) There is NEVER a Drop chain in the mangle table.

So until I release a solution, you will have to use the start file.

-Tom
-- 
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA  \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Public Key   \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security?
Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier
Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642
_______________________________________________
Shorewall-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

Reply via email to