[Firehol-support] [sanewall-dev] Changing activation policy

[Thomas Arendsen Hein]

* Phil Whineray <phil.whineray at gmail.com> [20120519 18:53]:
> For sanewall I think I should change the activation policy for the
> FORWARD chain from ACCEPT TO DROP.
> 
> Could people please let me know if this will adversely affect them and
> if possible test what effect it has?
> 
> Just add to the top of your config:
>   SANEWALL_FORWARD_ACTIVATION_POLICY=DROP
> 
> If you are using firehol the equivalent would be to add:
>   FIREHOL_FORWARD_ACTIVATION_POLICY=DROP
> 
> There are two other policies for INPUT and OUTPUT, also set to ACCEPT
> during activation. This as-designed, to avoid intefering with establish
> connections whilst restarting and eliminated the risk that the host becomes
> inaccessible to the admin if something goes wrong whilst restarting the
> firewall remotely.

I am using DROP on INPUT/OUTPUT/FORWARD since 2003 on multiple
(40-60?) hosts and absolutely never had a disconnect of the ssh
session I used to activate the rules, even with very large rulesets,
where it took up to 5 minutes to activate >5000 rules across many
interfaces.

See my very old bug report about this:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=487695&aid=756001&group_id=58425

Therefore I suggest setting it to DROP for all three activation
policies.

Regards,
Thomas

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