I managed to cut my own network connection while trying to firewall vmware with ebtables and dummy0. That is, the host PC couldn't reach the net. Doc trouble: The distinction between --logical-in and --in-interface is not clear in the ebtables man page. Nothing seems to document usage of the dummy devices. Bridging to/from a normal already-running interface like eth0 could use a few examples. Diagrams of packet flow through the kernel would help, even if that means a man page with ASCII art. So anyway... Vmware likes to do it's own bridging, and it wants to use an eth* device. I'll rename dummy0 for that, so I can use ebtables to get the security under control. Here goes my attempt: ############# ip link set dev dummy0 name eth9 brctl addbr hack brctl stp hack off brctl addif hack eth0 brctl addif hack eth9 ebtables -N myvmware -P DROP ebtables -N multi -P DROP ebtables -N addresses -P RETURN ebtables -P FORWARD DROP # (00:0c:29:80:b5:66 is the VM) ebtables -A FORWARD -d 00:0c:29:80:b5:66 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A FORWARD -d Multicast -j multi ebtables -A FORWARD -s 00:0c:29:80:b5:66 -j myvmware # From my VM, to another single host (could be the gateway) ebtables -P myvmware DROP ebtables -A myvmware -p ARP -j ACCEPT ebtables -A myvmware -p IPv4 --ip-destination 192.168.0.0/20 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A myvmware -p IPv4 -j addresses ebtables -A myvmware --log-level info --log-ip --log-arp --log-prefix EB1: # Any broadcast/multicast, incoming or outgoing ebtables -P multi DROP ebtables -A multi -p ARP -j ACCEPT ebtables -A multi -p IPv4 --ip-proto 6 --ip-sport 67:68 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A multi -p IPv4 --ip-proto 6 --ip-dport 67:68 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A multi -p IPv4 --ip-proto 17 --ip-sport 67:68 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A multi -p IPv4 --ip-proto 17 --ip-dport 67:68 -j ACCEPT ebtables -A multi --log-level info --log-ip --log-arp --log-prefix EB2: # Add addresses as required. ebtables -P addresses RETURN #ebtables -A addresses -p IPv4 --ip-destination 1.2.3.4 -j ACCEPT # This didn't fix the problem. # (00:13:72:29:16:7C is eth0) ebtables -A FORWARD -d 00:13:72:29:16:7C -j ACCEPT ebtables -A FORWARD -s 00:13:72:29:16:7C -j ACCEPT ifconfig eth9 up ##################### That just kills my net connection. Note that I never told my host machine to route via the bridge device. As far as I'm concerned, it ought to still be using eth0. (getting between host and VM is a separate issue) The only thing I did with eth0 was to add a bridge over to the dummy0 device (renamed to eth9), which should just mean that -- subject to ebtables rules -- packets get replicated from eth0 to the dummy device and back. It kind of feels like the bridge is stealing packets rather than just replicating them to the other devices, but adding ebtables rules for the host didn't fix things. FWIW, here is what ifconfig has to say about it: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:72:29:16:7C inet addr:192.168.5.242 Bcast:192.168.15.255 Mask:255.255.240.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:72ff:fe29:167c/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:23046863 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1699146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:9738438913 (9.0 GiB) TX bytes:161288685 (153.8 MiB) Base address:0xcce0 Memory:fe3e0000-fe400000 eth9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5E:95:DD:AF:2B:F1 inet6 addr: fe80::5c95:ddff:feaf:2bf1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:70 (70.0 b) lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:116406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:116406 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:10533257 (10.0 MiB) TX bytes:10533257 (10.0 MiB) vmnet1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:01 inet addr:192.168.14.1 Bcast:192.168.14.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:1/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:45 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) vmnet8 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:56:C0:00:08 inet addr:192.168.183.1 Bcast:192.168.183.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:56ff:fec0:8/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:47 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge