Firewall and nfs mounts

[Ed Greshko]

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

Ed


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