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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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
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
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
----
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
~~~~~~~
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
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.
----
# /etc/pve/firewall/cluster.fw