Re: Firewall

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On 12/06/2010 08:43 PM, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> On 12/06/2010 08:40 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 11:15:37AM -0800, Jesse Keating wrote:
>>> On 12/06/2010 11:05 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>>> The other benefit would be if the user only intended the
>>>> service to be accessible to localhost, or a UNIX domain
>>>> socket but for some reason screwed up their service's
>>>> config&   opened it to the world.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I could buy this if we actually alerted users to this, when in fact we
>>> /disable/ logging in the default firewall set, so your packets just
>>> magically disappear  leaving the user scratching their head as to why
>>> the hell things aren't working.
>>
>> Yes, enabling logging of packets really helps to track down
>> firewall misconfiguration.
>>
>> What we really lack is good visibility for n00bs.  Sure you can do
>> 'netstat -anp' to show open ports and (if you're more of an expert
>> than me) look at iptables to see what's wrong, but having nice GUI
>> tools to display this information would be better.
>>
>> (No, I'm not volunteering to write them ...)
>>
>> Rich.
>>
>
> Thats actually a really nice idea we could tackle with the firewall
> stuff Thomas is working on in the future.
>
> added_to_feature_list++ :)

Add accounting too. Assuming that the Zones are implemented as chains it 
would be nice to be able to review how much traffic a Zone and/or the 
services are seeing.

Regards,
   Dennis
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