Enabling by MAC address

Sam Irlapati samirlapati at gmail.com
Sun Oct 5 02:30:11 UTC 2014


I am on fedora 20. I can remove the rule i have and try 
"hdhomerun_config discover" and it says no devices found". When i add 
the rule back and run the command, it finds the device. I would check to 
be sure you have the right mac address.


On 10/04/2014 03:17 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
> Thanks for the reassurance.
>
> Alas, hdhomerun_config discover still says "no devices found". Very trying.
>
> On 10/04/2014 09:46:34 AM, Sam Irlapati wrote:
>> Yes, Anything from that MAC address should be allowed. Is that working
>>
>> for you? Are you trying the program hdhomerun_config_gui to see if it
>> has connected?
>>
>> On 10/03/2014 06:53 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>> Ah! On (Fedora 19) version 0.3.9.3, its View  -> "direct
>> configuration" tab ->
>>>> "rules" , but there it is. As entered.
>>> So, is it correct, then (pardon the restatement) that this says to
>> firewalld ignore anything to/from this MAC address?
>>> And for my education, where did you find out about this coding?
>>>
>>> Many thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/03/2014 04:12:06 PM, Sam Irlapati wrote:
>>>> Yes it shows up in the gui.
>>>>
>>>> firewall-config -> public zone -> "direct configuration" tab ->
>>>> "rules"
>>>> sub tab.
>>>>
>>>> I hope that helps.
>>>>
>>>> On 10/03/2014 05:16 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>>>> Thanks. I tried your code,but it did not change my status. No
>>>> reflection on the code, of course!
>>>>> Can you say if your code should show up anywhere in the firewall
>>>> GUI, so that I can convince myself that it's actually been
>> processed?
>>>>> On 10/03/2014 11:56:28 AM, Samuel Irlapati wrote:
>>>>>> Here is the rule that i have. it seems to work for me and it
>>>> slightly
>>>>>> different from yours.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> # cat direct.xml
>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>>>> <direct>
>>>>>>       <rule priority="0" table="filter" ipv="ipv4"
>> chain="INPUT">-m
>>>> mac
>>>>>> --mac-source 00:18:DD:03:B6:8A -j ACCEPT</rule>
>>>>>> </direct>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> of course you got to use your own mac address.
>>>>>> sam
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 10/03/2014 12:10 PM, Geoffrey Leach wrote:
>>>>>>> First, let it be known that I am completely ignorant of the
>>>>>> principles of operation of firewallD, and hope to remain so.
>>>>>>> that said, I have a device (known to wok Silicon Dust HD Home
>> Run)
>>>>>> that is hard-wired to the ethernet port on another system.
>>>> Installing
>>>>>> Fedora 19 has interfered with this.
>>>>>>> In order to open the firewall to this connection, I have
>> followed
>>>>>> the advice of
>>>>>>> Michael Hannon (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-December/444034.html)
>>>>>> and have constructed /etc/firewalld/direct.xml as follows:
>>>>>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>>>>>>> <direct>
>>>>>>>          <passthrough ipv="ipv4">-t filter -A IN_internal_allow
>> -m
>>>> mac
>>>>>> --mac-source 00:18:DD:01:4A:E7 j ACCEPT</passthrough>
>>>>>>> </direct>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This did not suddenly fix the connection problem  :-), but it
>>>> would
>>>>>> be nice to be able to validate this. Using firewall-cmd to reload
>>>>>> firewalld resulted in no errors but what do I know?
>>>>>>> So, the intended function of this code is to open the firewall
>> to
>>>>>> connections involving the device with MAC address
>>>> 00:18:DD:01:4A:E7.
>>>>>> Is that correct?
>>>>>>> Should I be able to find this somewhere in the firewall-config
>>>>>> menus?
>>>>>>> Thanks.
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