Hi Bret,

sorry for the late response.

>Bret Baptist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Here are some of the results of the testing I have done on MNF2.  These are 
> all tested against Florin's latest packages dated Jan 04 2005.
> 
> You should not be able to specify a port number when selecting 'all' for a 
> Protocol under Firewall --> Rules --> Add Rule.  Shorewall will not start, it 
> says "Error: Port number not allowed with protocol "all"; rule: "ACCEPT lan 
> vpn all 0:65535 - -""

unfortunately it's a bit complicated to test that with the actual design
... 

> When you add a host to the Firewall --> Zones Interfaces --> Hosts 
> Configuration section there are a bunch of options available to select, ie 
> routeback, maclist, ...  When you edit a host in the same section you are 
> only able to select routestopped as an option, which is not even an option 
> when adding a new Host.

this should be ok now

> When you add a host to the Firewall --> Zones Interfaces --> Hosts 
> Configuration section it says that you can select '+' for the interface to 
> not associate a particular interface to a zone, but shorewall doesn't like 
> this at all, it says "Error: Unknown interface (+) in record "vpn +:0.0.0.0/0 
> ""

I have removed that ... I don't even remember putting it there ... I'm
getting old ;o)

> You can only select a log level of "info" for rules now, is this intentional?

you would like to have all the syslog levels ? I thought info is enough
for shorewall ... 

> When watching the firewall boot I noticed that the nework interfaces are 
> brought up and then shorewall is started, should this order be reversed?  Or 
> is this a limitation of shorewall?

yes, we have noticed that if the interface is not up then shorewall fails ...

> Why is samba-server a requirment for the mnf-en virtual package?  Do we 
> *need* 
> samba server to run the firewall?

no, we don't really need that ... except if one enables the WINS part for pptp.

> With a fresh default install of MNF2 I get these errors in my syslog, 
> "postfix/postdrop[6094]: warning: unable to look up public/pickup: No such 
> file or directory".

I'll check that next week when I'll test new installs ..

> When you add an ipsec tunnel in the Firewall --> Tunnels/Netmap section, it 
> creates rules that require the source port to be 500.  On some clients this 
> is not always the case, for example the SmartNet brand IPSEC clients do not 
> connect with a source port of 500.  Could we remove the spt=500 part of the 
> rule?

this comes from the shorewall internals ... simply use generic:udp:444 instead,
for example, if you want ...
 
> Not bugs, but ideas:
> Is there anyway to have the web interface display the Warnings and Errors 
> from 
> the shorewall check we do after you hit Apply?  For example when adding a 
> rule that has 'all' for the Protolcol, shorewall warns you that this is 
> really a Policy and should be in the policy file instead, handy info to be 
> displayed in the web interface.  It would also be very nice to have it 
> display the Error so you know what you did wrong without having to go to 
> Services --> Summary --> shorewall --> Details.

too complicated to do at this stage ... but a very good idea ... (I have
already given some thought to this and probably change the limited
architecture for the next mnf)

> Would it be possible to have a summary screen when you edit something that 
> says, he is your previous configuration line, and here is what you are 
> changing that configuration to.  This way when you make changes you can see 
> clearly what changes are being made.

same comment as above ... I already have plans to do that for the next release.
 
thank you for your email ... and please don't hesitate if you have more
comments, ideas ...

sincerely,
- 
Florin                          http://www.mandrakesoft.com
                                http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/

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