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20.7 Legacy Series / Re: firewall groups and interfaces
« on: July 31, 2020, 11:00:20 pm »
The grouped interfaces is not a big deal but in my currently 5 minutes works I felt a bit uncomforted so an opt-in/out would be great
Then, for the pleasure of the discussion, my first "random thoughts" about the firewall group are ...
1) Have a clear distinction between rules applied to a specific interface and rules applied to a bunch of interfaces
So a menu like:
Firewall
- Groups <-- groups rules
- - grp1
- - grp1
- Rules
- - LAN
- - OPT1
- - OPTx
- - WAN
- Settings
- - Groups <-- groups creation page
2) (As in the previous post) Some references in the rules pages that indicate:
- Which groups are used on this interface (in Rules)
- Which interfaces are used this group (in Groups)
In my case I use the groups as group of rules and not as group of interfaces.
In the specific in I've a '"common rules" group applied to most of all the interfaces where I allow service like ping / remote syslog / smtp / backup / and-so-on and deny a few others ... then I add specific rules to specific interface.
I think this is more useful than a hierarchical side menu … but as I told this is just my taste and the way I use this feature
Told this I've a doubt, never tried, about what happen if an interface is used in 2 or more groups ... in which order the rules are evaluated ?
Cheers
--
Fabio
Then, for the pleasure of the discussion, my first "random thoughts" about the firewall group are ...
1) Have a clear distinction between rules applied to a specific interface and rules applied to a bunch of interfaces
So a menu like:
Firewall
- Groups <-- groups rules
- - grp1
- - grp1
- Rules
- - LAN
- - OPT1
- - OPTx
- - WAN
- Settings
- - Groups <-- groups creation page
2) (As in the previous post) Some references in the rules pages that indicate:
- Which groups are used on this interface (in Rules)
- Which interfaces are used this group (in Groups)
In my case I use the groups as group of rules and not as group of interfaces.
In the specific in I've a '"common rules" group applied to most of all the interfaces where I allow service like ping / remote syslog / smtp / backup / and-so-on and deny a few others ... then I add specific rules to specific interface.
I think this is more useful than a hierarchical side menu … but as I told this is just my taste and the way I use this feature
Told this I've a doubt, never tried, about what happen if an interface is used in 2 or more groups ... in which order the rules are evaluated ?
Cheers
--
Fabio