[fedora-virt] bridge network with iptables running on host?

[Mark McLoughlin]

(Sorry for the delay in replying)

On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 20:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:06:04 -0700
> Dale Bewley wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 18:35 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> > > Do I have to tell the host to forward everything (rather than
> > > forwarding nothing as I have it now?). 
> > 
> > You are going to need something like this:
> >  iptables -I FORWARD -m physdev  --physdev-is-bridged -j ACCEPT
> > 
> > Take a peek in /var/lib/libvirt/iptables for the rules that libvirt
> > inserts when you use a libvirt defined network. 
> 
> Actually I finally discovered it was a combination of several
> completely different things. I wasn't using the default libvirt
> networking, so I didn't need any NAT related rule.
> 
> I was instead using a bridge I defined. So first
> I had to discover what the heck the /etc/sysctl.conf
> settings recommended in a few places actually meant to know
> that I really did need:
> 
> net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-arptables = 0
> net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 0
> net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0
> 
> to prevent my VMs from being filtered by my host's iptables.

Note:

  http://wiki.libvirt.org/page/Networking#Fedora.2FRHEL_Bridging

We used to recommend the "physdev-is-bridged" iptables rule, but now we
recommend disabling iptables on the bridge altogether. See:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/512206

'bridge-nf-call-iptables = 0' will be the default with Fedora 12.

Cheers,
Mark.