Re: iptables & bridging won't work together

[Mike Tremoulet <coffeemike () gmail com>]

What are your acutal rc.firewall rules?  I've only implemented it on a
2.6 kernel so far, but the trick for me was to change how the rule
fired.

The rc.firewall script "out of the box" uses the -i $INET_IFACE switch
to identify the inbound interface for filtering; however, the bridging
showed that both the inbound and outbound interfaces were the bridge,
not either interface.

iptables -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -m state --state NEW -j LOG
--log-prefix "INBOUND TCP: "
iptables -A FORWARD -i $INET_IFACE -p tcp -m state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

I was able to fix this by amending the rule to match on the physical
hardware, not the logical interface, like so:

iptables -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in $INET_IFACE -p tcp -m
state --state NEW -j LOG --log-prefix "INBOUND TCP: "
iptables -A FORWARD -m physdev --physdev-in $INET_IFACE -p tcp -m
state --state NEW -j ACCEPT

I don't have handy what modules were required for the physdev
matching, so check on that.

For debugging, you may want to add a rule that just logs all new TCP
traffic so you can see exactly how the packets are moving across your
system:

iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -m state --state NEW -j LOG --log-prefix "DEBUG: "

Hope this helps,
-- Mike

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