El 11/07/11 11:49, mikecoan escribió:
> Greetings,
>
> I am a new user of Shorewall. thanks Tom for all your work and your
> unbelievable responsiveness on this list.  You must not sleep :)
>
> I recently switched the firewall for our small network to Shorewall.
> Everything is working great. I am running Shorewall on openSuse 11.4.  I
> want to make sure that all security patches for the OS are applied.
> Naturally connections from the firewall to the net are blocked by default.
>
> My first thought is to add a rule allowing access from the firewall to
> the particular mirror that I use for openSuse updates (ftp.utexas.edu).
>    openSuse uses wget for updates and the ftp.utexas.edu accepts http as
> well as ftp. Dig shows that ftp.utexas.edu has ip address 146.6.54.21
>
> The Rule would then be:
>
> ACCEPT        $FW   net:146.6.54.21   tcp     21
>
> or else
>
> ACCEPT        $FW   net:146.6.54.21   tcp     80
>
> or even
>
> ACCEPT        $FW   net:146.6.54.21   tcp     21,80
>
> To my untrained eye this seems pretty safe. If necessary I could comment
> out the rule when not checking or updates and restart shorewall.  I just
> wondered if this is okay adn what other people do to update the OS that
> is running shorewall.
>
> Mike
>

You can also use :

ACCEPT     $FW     net:146.6.54.21     tcp

and allow any port on tcp protocol to 146.6.54.21

Anyways, i use a policy rule for $FW /etc/shorewall/policy :

$FW     all     ACCEPT

that allow all traffic from Firewall to local net, internet, etc, so i 
dont need such rule in /etc/shorewall/rules




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