Hi Tom,

That makes perfectly sense.

I could only find this documentation <http://shorewall.net/4.6/Actions.html>.
Is there a different documentation for Shorwall6 or is the documentation
shared? If it's shared it might make sense to mention the different
defaults.

Sven

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Tom Eastep <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 04/03/2016 11:46 AM, Sven Kirmess wrote:
> > There is inconsistent default behavior between Shorewall 4.6.13.4 and
> > Shorewall6 4.6.13.4. Both have
> >
> > DROP_DEFAULT=Drop
> >
> > in their config file but Shorewall drops auth packets and Shorewall6
> > rejects them.
> >
> > According to the documentation <http://shorewall.net/4.6/Actions.html>,
> > I think, Shorewall is correct.
> >
> >
> > firewall# grep DROP_DEFAULT /etc/shorewall*/shorewall*.conf
> > /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf:DROP_DEFAULT=Drop
> > /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf:DROP_DEFAULT=Drop
> > firewall# shorewall show | grep 113
> > firewall# shorewall6 show | grep 113
> >     0     0 reject     tcp      *      *       ::/0
> > ::/0                 tcp dpt:113 /* Auth */
> >     0     0 reject     tcp      *      *       ::/0
> > ::/0                 tcp dpt:113 /* Auth */
> > firewall#
> >
> >
> > firewall# grep DROP_DEFAULT /etc/shorewall*/shorewall*.conf
> > /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf:DROP_DEFAULT="Drop(-,REJECT)"
> > /etc/shorewall6/shorewall6.conf:DROP_DEFAULT="Drop(-,REJECT)"
> > firewall# shorewall show | grep 113
> >     0     0 reject     tcp  --  *      *       0.0.0.0/0
> > <http://0.0.0.0/0>            0.0.0.0/0 <http://0.0.0.0/0>
> > tcp dpt:113 /* Auth */
> > firewall# shorewall6 show | grep 113
> >     0     0 reject     tcp      *      *       ::/0
> > ::/0                 tcp dpt:113 /* Auth */
> >     0     0 reject     tcp      *      *       ::/0
> > ::/0                 tcp dpt:113 /* Auth */
> > firewall#
>
> Yes -- they are different and will stay that way - changing default
> behavior tends to break existing configurations. If you don't want auth
> rejected in IPv6, then set DROP_DEFAULT="Drop(-,--).
>
> -Tom
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