Re: Bridging firewall problems.
The firewall rules for the brfw patch needs to have the same name as the
bridge interface. If you have setup the bridge as br0 then the rule has to
be called br0.
Matt.
> Hi, I have been trying to set up a bridging firewall, and have been having
> little success. I'm running potato & 2.2.19, with the latest brfw2 patch
> applied. The bridge works fine, but when we try to set the rules up we
> either have a firewall that wont let anything through, or one that wont
stop
> anything (of course neither is our goal). What we have is a few servers
> that we want to set behind a firewall, pretty simple setup. The firewall
is
> plugged into the rest of the LAN, and then a hub is plugged into the
> firewall, and the severs will be plugged into that. We would like open
> access from within our LAN (our IP block), and restricted access from the
> world (Pretty much port 80 & 443). We have a block of 64 IP, so our mask
is
> 26, and eth0 is our external interface (connected to the 'net).
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