Mark Clarke wrote:
ong.
> 
> I am still a bit confused about the protection offered though. If there
> is no real firewall traffic going through the ursa zone then shouldn't
> the lines in policy disallow access from all, and the net zone in
> particular, to the firewall?
> 
> all             fw              ACCEPT
> fw              all             ACCEPT
> 
> Maybe the gap in my understanding is that ursa/firewall is protected by
> the dmz zone rules/policy? Maybe this line in /etc/interfaces is the
> part I am missing? i.e dmz == all doms  including dom0.
> 
> dmz     xenbr0:vif+                             routeback
> 
> I can understand that everything on peth0 should be allowed in as it is
> essentially in promiscuous mode and needs to forward/broadcast all
> traffic through to the bridge. Then shorewall just needs to ensure that
> only legitimate traffic is allowed through the virtual interfaces.

Mark,

It sounds like you are confused about the purpose of this particular
firewall example. From the article:

        In this example, we will assume that the system is behind a second
        firewall that restricts incoming traffic so that we only have to
        worry about protecting the local LAN from the systems running in the
        DomU's.

Sounds like you mssed that assumption.

-Tom
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