Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-20 Thread Kai Schaetzl
Tim Verhoeven wrote on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:15:49 +0200: For restricting traffic at the dom0 level I use ebtables (it's like iptables but on a bridge level). It allows you to to basic filtering between the real interfaces (from the dom0) and virtual interfaces (from the domU's). This off

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-14 Thread Kai Schaetzl
John Thomas wrote on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:44:14 -0700: but I think everything is the same, as if you have physical machines. It's not, see my remark about forwarding ;-) Maybe you need forwarding on your physical machines, I do not ;-) Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at

[CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-13 Thread Kai Schaetzl
I took over a custom firewall script from my older Suse machines to my Dom-Us and it works just fine. Doing the same for Dom-0 immediately killed all traffic for the VMs. As there was no need before I had been dropping everything on the FORWARD chain. After ACCEPTing all for FORWARD my VMs are

Re: [CentOS-virt] firewall best practice on dom-0

2008-07-13 Thread John Thomas
Kai Schaetzl wrote: What's best practice on Dom-0, what do you do? Can I restrict the forwarding, in which way? I use vmware, not XEN, but I think everything is the same, as if you have physical machines. I use shorewall everywhere and find it great. http://shorewall.net rpms: