[Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-21 Thread aleph2
Hi My office is getting a Xen on linux server donated. Looks like I'm on the hook to get it up and running. Been reading and testing bits and pieces. Most seem pretty straight forward. I have a question about using Shorewall on the Xen machine to provide firewall for the machine Hosts, the

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-21 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 07:39:37PM +, ale...@vfemail.net wrote: > > IIUC that's one of three ways I can think of to handle the firewall, > > (1) 2 ethernet interfaces in the Dom0 host, shorewall on the Dom0 > (2) 1 ethernet interfacs in the Dom0 host, 1 eth intfc in a DomU guest, > shorewall

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-21 Thread aleph2
Hi Roberto On 2015-04-21 19:49, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > Personally, I like the approach of running Shorewall inside of each > domU. But then, I employ the "every node on the network is untrusted > by > default" approach. I have all the physical interfaces in the dom0 > (with > the dom0 onl

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-21 Thread Tom Eastep
On 4/21/2015 12:39 PM, ale...@vfemail.net wrote: > Hi > > My office is getting a Xen on linux server donated. Looks like I'm on > the hook to get it up and running. > > Been reading and testing bits and pieces. Most seem pretty straight > forward. > > I have a question about using Shorewall

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
ale...@vfemail.net wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: >> Personally, I like the approach of running Shorewall inside of each >> domU. But then, I employ the "every node on the network is untrusted >> by >> default" approach. I have all the physical interfaces in the dom0 >> (with >> the dom0 o

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-22 Thread aleph2
Hi Simon On 2015-04-22 07:02, Simon Hobson wrote: > With a twist that I have (at home) a DomU just for the external > gateway. Separate from the fw DomU? I've been wondering what makes most sense -- gateway + fw + openvpn all on one DomU, or split them up. > For physical connectivity, I've do

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-22 Thread Simon Hobson
ale...@vfemail.net wrote: >> With a twist that I have (at home) a DomU just for the external gateway. > > Separate from the fw DomU? I've been wondering what makes most sense -- > gateway + fw + openvpn all on one DomU, or split them up. One device = FW + router + NAT etc > So leaning in that

Re: [Shorewall-users] Comparing approcahes to Shorewall firewall on a Xen server. Any experience or recommendations?

2015-04-22 Thread aleph2
On 2015-04-21 19:59, Tom Eastep wrote: > As you can tell by the Xen articles on the Shorewall site, I've only > used approach (1). I was tempted to try (3), but abandoned Xen in favor > of KVM then LXC. In both of the latter, I also had Shorewall running in > the host. > > Sorry that I can't be of