On 21/01/11 00:02, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am Donnerstag 20 Januar 2011, 23:52:25 schrieb Jan Engelhardt: >> On Thursday 2011-01-20 23:47, Richard Weinberger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> as a firewall admin I would like to see which rules allow >>> the connections through my firewall. >>> A relationship between conntrack and firewall rules would be nice. >>> The next five patches bring this feature to the Linux Netfilter. >>> >>> First a small example. >>> Consider this iptables rules: >>> -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j APPROVE --rule-id 1 >>> -A OUTPUT -m state --state NEW,ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j APPROVE --rule-id 2 >>> -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 22 -m state --state NEW -j APPROVE --rule-id 3 >>> -A INPUT -p icmp -m state --state NEW -j APPROVE --rule-id 4 >>> >>> The APPROVE target is the same as ACCEPT but it stores also a rule id into >>> the connection tracking entry. >> >> What about connmark? You could have used that. Perhaps combined with the >> use of -j TRACE that can show which rules were processed before a >> verdict was issued. > > Yeah, I know commark and TRACE but they are quite clumsy to use for such a purpose. Why are the clumsy for this purpose? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
