[libvirt] How to prevent libvirt from adding iptables rules?

David Lutterkort lutter at redhat.com
Mon Apr 6 18:48:56 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 14:36 +0200, Ludwig Nussel wrote:
> SuSEfirewall2 does not have such a mechanism and TBH I pretty much
> dislike the idea of allowing applications to inject arbitrary rules.
> I'd prefer some higher level abstraction so it's left to the
> firewall to decide how to translate the request into actual iptables
> rules (or whatever else technology is used in the background).

How would that be done ? I don't know of any tool that could do that,
especially given the large number of existing firewall mgmt tools out
there (s-c-firewall, SuSEfirewall2, whatever Debian/Ubuntu have,
shorewall, pyroman, ...)

David





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