if ipmi is unfirewalled, any user who can jack into an open port can just
use ipmi.  that's not good.  you should segregate ipmi to a dedicated vlan
at the switch if possible.  iptables rules are probably not the best way to
go about securing this situation.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Tom Eastep <teas...@shorewall.net> wrote:

> On 1/20/11 8:41 AM, Carl Cook wrote:
> > I have an admin machine, and a backup server which does backups.  The
> > backup server has IPMI so I can do lights-out admin, and I want to
> > allow this from the admin machine only.  IPMI is completely
> > unfirewalled, and so it must have a different class C than working
> > networks....  this is just how it is.
> >
> > I've set the IPMI IP on the backup server to 192.168.10.4, and
> > created a virtual interface (eth0:1) on the admin machine with IP
> > 192.168.10.1.  But after following the Multiple Zones Through One
> > Interface instructions (http://www.shorewall.net/Multiple_Zones.html)
> > Shorewall simply blocks all traffic.
> >
> > What could be wrong/ is there another way that actually works?
>
> Very hard to guess without knowing exactly what you did. Please provide
> the output of 'shorewall dump' collected as described at
> http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm#Guidelines.
>
> Thanks,
> -Tom
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