Re: Re: SUSEfirewall udp broadcast

Andreas Stieger <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Mar 2017 11:44:54 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Organization SUSE Linux GmbH
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,


On 03/21/2017 10:53 AM, Malte Gell wrote:
> Am 21.03.2017 um 09:57 schrieb Andreas Stieger:
>> On 03/21/2017 09:45 AM, Malte Gell wrote:
>>> In order to allow UDP broadcast with the SUSEfirewall, is it enough to add
>>> e.g. BROADCAST="123,456" to the rules or is there more to add?
>>>
>>> I ask, because in my set UDP broadcast may have been dropped, despite
>>> using BROADCAST="123"....
>> There is no setting with this name for SuSEfirewall2
> From /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.d/services/TEMPLATE
>
> # space separated list of allowed UDP ports that accept broadcasts
> BROADCAST=""

So it's a service.
You'll need to first allow broadcast in general in
/etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 via FW_ALLOW_FW_BROADCAST_EXT, _INT, _DMZ.

Andreas

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