Thanks for the very quick reply Tom.

I went back to square one and now do have it all working as it should be. 
Shorewall on Host (Debian 6.x) and running in a Centos 6.x container. These are 
all venet based rules as I'm working in a VirtualBox environment so next stage 
is to install on some test hardware (should be coming in a few days) with 
bridged networking.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Eastep" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, 1 October, 2012 2:32:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Shorewall-users] Proxmox v2.x, Debian

On 10/01/2012 03:14 AM, John M. Hackett wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hope this is not a stupid question! A client is currently running a
> cluster of Proxmox1.6/OpenVZ servers making extensive use of
> Shorewall on both the hosts and the containers. I am investigating
> the possibility of upgrading to Proxmox v2.1.
> 
> In the Shorewall.net documentation about using Shorewall with OpenVZ
> there is a warning:
> 
> "If you are running Debian Squeeze, Shorewall will not work in an
> OpenVZ container. This is a Debian OpenVZ issue and not a Shorewall
> issue."
> 
> Proxmox v2.1 runs on Debian Squeeze (6.0).
> 
> I assume this means that running the HOST on Debian Squeeze menas
> that you cannot run Shorewall in a container - but will it still work
> to protect the host or should it not be used at all. I am having
> trouble accessing any containers externally (e.g. a squid container)
> if I install Shorewall on the host (currently this is in a test
> VirtualBox environment so not ideal). I'd like to know whether this
> is because I've not got the setup correct or it just won't work!

I suspect that you have a Shorewall issue. The problem referred to in
the article only affects Shorewall running in a container.

> 
> Secondly - does this apply to the newer kernel (I'm running
> 2.6.32-14-pve) and/or newest Debian (6.0.6).
> 

We've had reports that the problem has been corrected in current Debian
Squeeze OpenVZ kernels.

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________


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