Re: Re: SUSEfirewall udp broadcast

Malte Gell <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Mar 2017 09:09:29 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.security
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 21.03.2017 um 11:44 schrieb Andreas Stieger:
> 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.

Ah, okay.
Is it okay to make changes in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 ? Doesn´t it
get overwritten with software updates?
Thanks


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