Hi,

> That having been said, there are a couple of things to keep in mind
> when considering using bridges with Shorewall.
> 
> - You can define zones by bridge port.
> - You can filter traffic originating from those 'bridge-port' zones.
> - You cannot filter traffic from non-bridge-port zones to individual 
>   'bridge-port' zones. This restriction is imposed by Netfilter, not 
>   Shorewall.  

Alright, this is interesting to me as well. But what is an individual
bridge port? I assume that it's one ethernet device that has been added
to the bridge. So then, does this mean that filtering between, say,
eth1 and vzone1 cannot be done?

> Example 1 (routed firewall):  
(..snip..)
> Example 2 (bridged firewall)  
(..snip..)

Am I right when I assume that the bridge in example 1 has no IP? I have
wondered whether Linux could be configured to have a bridge with no IP
and a dummy device that functions as a port for connections from
firewall to bridge.

Is the bridge in example 2 the firewall/fw zone?

Last question: Xen currently suggests to disable arp on the bridgeport
(so if I have a bridge br0 and eth0 is a member of it, one would do 'ip
link set dev eth0 arp off') and to give the ports a mac of
fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. Any thoughts on this?

Clearly I'm almost getting it. :)

Mark.

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