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Formal support for Linux-vserver was added in Shorewall 4.4.11 Beta2. The centerpiece of that support is the vserver zone type. Vserver zones have the following characteristics: They are defined on the Linux-vserver host. The $FW zone is their implicit parent. Their contents must be defined using the shorewall-hosts (5) file. They may not appear in the ZONE column of the shorewall-interfaces (5) file. If you use these zones, keep in mind that Linux-vserver implements a very weak form of network virtualization: From a networking point of view, vservers live on the host system. So if you don't use care, Vserver traffic to/from zone z will be controlled by the fw->z and z->fw rules and policies rather than by vserver->z and z->vserver rules and policies. Outgoing connections from a vserver will not use the Vserver's address as the SOURCE IP address unless you configure applications running in the Vserver properly. This is especially true for IPv6 applications. Such connections will appear to come from the $FW zone rather than the intended Vserver zone.

Here is a diagram of the network configuration here at Shorewall.net during the summer of 2010: I created a zone for the vservers as follows: /etc/shorewall/zones: #ZONE TYPE OPTIONS ... fw firewall loc ip #Local Zone drct:loc ipv4 #Direct internet access net ipv4 #Internet vpn ipv4 #OpenVPN clients dmz vserver #Vservers /etc/shorewall/hosts: #ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS drct eth3:dynamic dmz eth1:70.90.191.124/31 While the IP addresses 70.90.191.124 and 70.90.191.125 are configured on eth1, the actual interface name is irrelevate so long as the interface is defined in shorewall-interfaces (5). Shorewall will consider all vserver zones to be associated with the loopback interface (lo). Once a vserver zone is defined, it can be used like any other zone type. Here is the corresponding IPv6 configuration. /etc/shorewall6/zones #ZONE TYPE OPTIONS IN OUT # OPTIONS OPTIONS fw firewall net ipv6 loc ipv6 vpn ipv6 dmz ipv6 /etc/shorewall6/hosts: #ZONE HOST(S) OPTIONS dmz sit1:[2001:470:e857:1::/64] Note that I choose to place the Vservers on sit1 (the IPv6 net interface) rather than on eth1. Again, it really doesn't matter much.