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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I want to use NAT forwarding to forward some ports on my kvm host to my guests. There is a rule that libvirt is creating that rejects this traffic, and it gets recreated every time the network is updated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>-A FORWARD -o virbr0 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>My FORWARD policy is set to DROP, so I’d like to just remove this rule, but I don’t understand where it’s coming from.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m using kvm/qemu/libvirt on a RedHat 7.5 host.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It’s not clear to me whether anything is using any of the nwfilter rules. I haven’t added any, and I don’t see any referenced in any of my domain xml dumps or the network xml dump.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Can I get libvirt to stop adding this rule, or even any firewall rules and I’ll do it myself?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6'>John Ratliff</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:#A6A6A6'>| Pervasive Technology Institute | UITS | Research Storage - Indiana University | <u><a href="http://pti.iu.edu/"><span style='color:blue'>http://pti.iu.edu/</span></a></u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>