iptables module for smb browsing
Charles R. Anderson
cra at WPI.EDU
Wed Sep 29 13:28:00 UTC 2004
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 11:00:59AM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> In my quest to make SMB browsing work with the default firewall rules,
> thus fixing:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=133478
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=113918
>
> I have now written a kernel conntrack module (attached) that marks
> replies to netbios name requests as RELATED to the original connection.
> This means the default firewall rules will work when this module is
> loaded. I'm not actually an expert in netbios or firewall stuff, so I'd
> love if someone who knew this better took a look at it and made sure it
> looks ok.
Yay! Thank you! Does this work for other multi/broadcast protocols,
or is it specific to netbios? I think a generic solution would be
nice.
I'll take a look and test this...
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