On Friday 07 January 2005 9:40 am, Florin wrote:
> Hi Bret,
>
> sorry for the late response.
>

No problems, thank you for looking into this.

> >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
> ...

Unfortunate, but as long as you keep an eye on things you should be ok.

>
> > 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
>

This has been corrected with the current rpms.

> > 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)
>

This looks good as well.

> > 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 ...
>

Yeah, thinking about it for firewall rules I am sure info should be enough.

> > 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
> ...
>

When the interface is brought up initialy does it have the full IP address and 
routes?  Are there any firewalls rules in place at all?

> > 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.
>

So this requirement will be dropped from the mnf-en virtual package than?

> > 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 ..
>

OK, let me know when we have a new iso to install from and I will do testing 
for you.

> > 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 ...
>

I am not sure what you are trying to say here.  Would it be possible to change 
the shorewall internals in this case?  This is a pretty silly requirement 
that doesn't take into account setting up an IPSEC tunnel with many Windows 
clents out there.

> > 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)
>

Unfortunate, but you have to work within the framework available to you.

> > 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.
>

Same comment as above.  ;-)

> thank you for your email ... and please don't hesitate if you have more
> comments, ideas ...
>

I must say that with the current state of MNF2 everything appears to work 
better than MNF ever did.


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Bret Baptist
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