On 02/18/2013 07:54 PM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote:
>> If I have an open linux box with no rules in effect (open box), I can ssh in 
>> and run
>> vuurmuur_conf.  vuurmuur -D is not running yet.
>>
>> One of several rules I add allows me to use ssh, just as I am during the ssh 
>> session when
>> the box is open.
>>
>> If I then save the rules, then start vuurmuur -D for the first time, my ssh 
>> session is cut
>> off and I do not see the completion of the starting of the daemon.
>>
>> I also have a serial portconsole on this box (which is headless) so I can 
>> see that the
>> daemon started, and applied the rules OK.  But the original ssh ethernet 
>> session is kaput.
>>
>> Subsequently I can log in with sshagain, while the daemon is running, and 
>> the rules are
>> fully in effect.
>>
>> Is this normal to be cut off?   Is there a way around it with vuurmuur?
>>
>> I know that if I hand craft some iptables rules, I can avoid this, and have 
>> done this OK
>> elsewhere.
>>
> Haven't tried this in a while, but it used to be that if you would load
> the ip_conntrack/nf_conntrack_ipv4 module before loading Vuurmuur, it
> would consider the connection "established" and let it pass even after
> vuurmuur was loaded.
>
> Cheers,
> Victor

Thanks Victor, unfortunately that does not work on my kernel. 

Any other thoughts?   Without this, I cannot use vuurmuur.



Is there a way to put a rule like this near the top somehow?

-A INPUT -m conntrack --ctstate ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT

Isn't this the one I have on another box, manually crafted, that does
this?



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