On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:09 PM, jonetsu wrote:

> For a same configuration in which the default policy is drop and only
> one connection is accepted in rules, continuous pinging to devices
> will stop squarely in 4.0.15 as soon as a very basic firewall is
> enabled whereas in 4.4.26.1, pinging will still continue after the
> firewall is enabled.
> 
> All tests are done with proper reboot of the unit3 where the firewall
> is applied:
> 
> unit1  <---> eth4  unit3  eth1   <--->    unit2
> 192.168.3.2  192.168.3.1  172.30.159.103  172.30.159.102
> lan zone                  net zone
> 
> In this case, continuous pings from unit1 to unit2 will stop when the
> 4.0.15 firewall is applied.  Rebooting unit3 with 4.4.26.1 (easily
> made since unit3 is booting from a different compact flash) and
> copying the files from 4.0.15 to it, and executing 'shorewall start'
> will not stop the pings from unit1 to unit2 even though the policy is
> DROP.
> 
> Other traffic is effectively stopped, but not so with icmp packets.
> 
> I've looked at the changelog an release notes for 4.4.26.1 but did not
> find anything about this.
> 
> firewall is very basic, and shorewall.conf is the same:
> 
> zones
> fw      firewall
> net     ipv4
> lan     ipv4
> 
> interfaces
> net     eth1
> lan     eth4
> 
> policy
> all     all     DROP
> 
> rules
> (none)
> 
> Using the same shorewall.conf might not be appropriate so I also tried
> with the shorewall.conf provided in the 4.4.26.1 version, while
> keeping the same zones, interfaces and policy files.


Output of 'shorewall dump' as an attachment, please.

-Tom

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