Firewall and nfs mounts
Todd Denniston
Todd.Denniston at tsb.cranrdte.navy.mil
Wed Aug 26 18:41:02 UTC 2009
Anne Wilson wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM:
> On Tuesday 25 August 2009 00:16:28 Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>> On Monday 24 August 2009 15:44:20 Bill McGonigle wrote:
>>>> On 08/24/2009 08:15 AM, Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>> What ports are necessarily opened on an nfs server? Does the client
>>>>> need any ports opened?
>>>> If you can limit yourself to NFSv4 you're much better off in this
>>>> department. I have this on an NFSv4 server:
>>>>
>>>> # NFS
>>>> -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --source
>>>> 192.168.1.32/27 --dport 2049 -j ACCEPT
>>>>
>>>> and nothing on a working client other than the standard:
>>>>
>>>> -A INPUT -m state --state ESTABLISHED,RELATED -j ACCEPT
>>> Thanks. That's something to work on. Although I have had a working
>>> firewall in the past, I'm not really familiar with iptables setup. Since
>>> a gui tool was provided I expected it to do the necessary (this is
>>> system-config- securitylevels on CentOS) but it doesn't. I used
>>> shorewall to set up my firewall long ago, and I'm beginning to think I
>>> might be better of seeing if there's a package for CentOS. Gui tools
>>> seem nice, but I don't like the fact that they rarely tell you what the
>>> are and aren't doing.
>> When it comes to a shorewall package for CentOS or RHEL you can enable
>> the EPEL repository https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>>
> Thanks, Ed. I should be able to get to that tomorrow. The thing is that I
> only want nfs across the lan. The router would stop any external attempts to
> use nfs mounting, so it seems to me that trusting the local zone might be all
> that's needed. I think that is straightforward, IIRC, in shorewall.
>
> Anne
Anne,
If you are using NFS V2/3 instead of 4 (TCP) then the following might be as useful to you as it was
to me. :)
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-3259
Of course if you had time/inclination you would be using something other than the 10000-10005 range
where everyone will now be looking for your NFS, if they could only find a way to get past your
router. :)
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Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
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