On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:13:46AM -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:15:20PM +0000, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > 
> >> Can you summarise the key setup details you worked out ?
> > 
> > Don't create more zones than you actually need. Don't put one line in
> > shorewall/interfaces for each VLAN (shorewall's performance is subtly
> > sensitive to what you put in the interfaces and hosts files), instead
> > collect all the roughly-equivalent client networks with a wildcard
> > line, and do any per-VLAN variations in shorewall/rules - which means
> > your client networks need to have addresses that make this
> > convinient. Use return-path filtering to ensure that client networks
> > must use the correct addresses (so no assymetric routing), so you can
> > rely on them for filtering purposes.
> 
> You can use vlan interfaces for filtering, even if they aren't explicitly
> mentioned in /etc/shorewall/interfaces.

Hmm, yes, that's obvious when you think about it. I can't remember why
I had to do it the other way. Must be something weird about my
setup. Ignore that bit.

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