cross-posted to: https://sh.itjust.works/post/14114583

If the rule is about forwarding traffic from the lan interface to the wan interface, then why is there also a forward rule? How would inputs, and outputs make any sense if the rule is talking about forwarding? What does it mean for wan to forward to REJECT? I interperet that as saying that wan doesn’t go anywhere, but that wouldn’t make sense given that the router can send, and receive over the internet.

For example I would interperet the first rule as follows:

  • lan => wan: the conditions for which connections from the lan interface are forwarded to to the wan interface.
  • Input: accept: the lan interface accepts all connections originating from the network (I wouldn’t understand the point of setting this to be reject).
  • Output: accept: all connections exiting the wan interface are accepted (again, I’m not sure what the point of this would be).
  • Forward: accept: forwarding of packets from lan to wan is allowed.
  • Masquerade: I honestly don’t know what the effect of enabling this would be. What would it mean to masquerade the lan interface?

I tried finding documentation, and I did come across this, and this, but, from what I could understand, they didn’t really answer any of my questions.

  • Matt The Horwood@lemmy.horwood.cloudEnglish
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    9 months ago

    in short, no I dont know how the firewalling works.

    So a read of the wiki has what I thought

    • INPUT is into the router
    • OUTPUT is from the router
    • FORWARD is across the router

    all as default settings, NAT is applied after the zone rules. So even though the zone will reject INPUT, a NAT rule will allow it.

    Does that help?