Thomas Woerner wrote: > Please think of a scenario like this: Service A is adding > firewall rules for opening port 20 and 21 (ftp-data and ftp) for > everyone and service B is opening port 20 and 21 only for a specific > network segment. What do you want to have here? If you apply A's rules > first then 20 and 21 is open for everyone and the rules from B are not > used at all. But if you apply B's rules first, ... What is the right > ordering here? Should A or B win? The conflict is there only if you are thinking something like this: //A if(port==(20-21)) PERMIT else DENY; //B if(port==(20-21)) {if(net==trusted) PERMIT; else DENY;} where the behavior changes if you change the order of A and B. But I have always seen firewalls rules written as "holes", with a default deny rule at the end: //A if(port==(20-21)) PERMIT; //B if(port==(20-21) && net==trusted) PERMIT; //default DENY; In this case there is no dependence on the ordering. Am I missing something? -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list