Hi,

In order to blacklist rfc1918 networks from the Internet, I use
NULL_ROUTE_RFC1918=Yes and it works perfectly. However, I noticed a
minor problem which I think shorewall should warn before. One of the
firewalls I configured had the 172.16.0.0/20 as the internal
interface, running version 4.4.6 on Ubuntu 10.04.1. Enabling
NULL_ROUTE_RFC1918, routing for the internal interface disappeared and
blacklisted. I think this behaviour conflicts with the manual, which
says:

"...When combined with route filtering (ROUTE_FILTER=Yes or
routefilter in shorewall-interfaces[9](5)), this option ensures that
packets with an RFC1918 source address are only accepted from
interfaces having known routes to networks using such addresses."

I looked around for a way to customize this option to exclude
172.16/20, but it appears that there are none, so maybe shorewall
should check for exact route matches before adding rfc1918 blacklists.

Or is there another way to fix this? (Apart from narrowing the range
of the internal network)

Regards,

--
Can Bican

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