firewall: minor tweaks

[pve-docs.git] / pve-firewall.adoc

diff --git a/pve-firewall.adoc b/pve-firewall.adoc
index 91bb3c1313e6db7f01715a0828de868a6a2b2c27..36a4f3c4bb24e5cb4beb27e3a66789e7c0142681 100644 (file)
--- a/pve-firewall.adoc
+++ b/pve-firewall.adoc
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-include::attributes.txt[]
 ifdef::manvolnum[]
 PVE({manvolnum})
 ================
+include::attributes.txt[]
 
 NAME
 ----
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ pve-firewall - The PVE Firewall Daemon
 SYNOPSYS
 --------
 
-include::pve-firewall.1-synopsis.adoc[]
+include::pve-firewall.8-synopsis.adoc[]
 
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ endif::manvolnum[]
 ifndef::manvolnum[]
 {pve} Firewall
 ==============
+include::attributes.txt[]
 endif::manvolnum[]
 
 // Copied from pve wiki: Revision as of 08:45, 9 November 2015
@@ -120,10 +121,11 @@ This is useful if you want to overwrite rules from 'cluster.fw'
 config. You can also increase log verbosity, and set netfilter related
 options.
 
-Enabling Firewall for VMs and Containers
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Enabling the Firewall for VMs and Containers
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-You need to enable the firewall on the virtual network interface configuration.
+You need to enable the firewall on the virtual network interface configuration
+in addition to the general 'Enable Firewall' option in the 'Options' tab.
 
 Firewall Rules
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -159,9 +161,9 @@ IN SSH(ACCEPT) -i net0 -source myserveralias   #accept ssh for alias myserverali
 Security Groups
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-A security group is a group a rules, defined at cluster level, which
-can be used in all VMs rules. For example you can define a group named
-`webserver` with rules to open http and https ports.
+A security group is a collection of rules, defined at cluster level, which
+can be used in all VMs' rules. For example you can define a group named
+`webserver` with rules to open the http and https ports.
 
 ----
 # /etc/pve/firewall/cluster.fw
@@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ IN  ACCEPT -p tcp -dport 80
 IN  ACCEPT -p tcp -dport 443
 ----
 
-Then, you can add this group in a vm firewall
+Then, you can add this group to a VM's firewall
 
 ----
 # /etc/pve/firewall/<VMID>.fw
@@ -184,7 +186,7 @@ GROUP webserver
 IP Aliases
 ~~~~~~~~~~
 
-IP Aliases allows you to associate IP addresses of Networks with a
+IP Aliases allow you to associate IP addresses of networks with a
 name. You can then refer to those names:
 
 * inside IP set definitions
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ using detected local_network: 192.168.0.0/20
 ----
 
 The firewall automatically sets up rules to allow everything needed
-for cluster communication (corosync, API, SSH).
+for cluster communication (corosync, API, SSH) using this alias.
 
 The user can overwrite these values in the cluster.fw alias
 section. If you use a single host on a public network, it is better to
@@ -221,7 +223,7 @@ IP Sets
 ~~~~~~~
 
 IP sets can be used to define groups of networks and hosts. You can
-refer to them with `+name` in firewall rules `source` and `dest`
+refer to them with `+name` in the firewall rules' `source` and `dest`
 properties.
 
 The following example allows HTTP traffic from the `management` IP
@@ -251,7 +253,7 @@ communication. (multicast,ssh,...)
 Standard IP set 'blacklist'
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-Traffic from those ips is dropped in all hosts and VMs firewalls.
+Traffic from these ips is dropped by every host's and VM's firewall.
 
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 # /etc/pve/firewall/cluster.fw