On Wed, 2019-08-28 at 12:32 +0200, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 11:55 AM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> > On 8/28/19 5:44 PM, Tom H wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:52 PM Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> 
> > > wrote:
> > > > The easiest way to resolve the issue is to place the interface on
> > > > the NFS server in the "Trusted" firewall zone. The setting for
> > > > that can be found in the Network Manager GUI for that interface
> > > > in the "General Configuration" tab. At least that is what is
> > > > shown on my KDE system.
> > > 
> > > Doesn't that essentially disable the firewall?!
> > 
> > To an extent. But recall that's Bob's network is connected to a
> > satellite service and already protected by a firewall. I think he
> > needs more protection against his family consuming his data quota.
> > :-)
> 
> :)
> 
> The problem's that if someone does so on a laptop at home and then
> uses a public network...
> 
> Whether using "trusted" or adding "nfs" to "home", I suppose that the
> solution is to remember to change to "public" when using a public
> network; in the same way way that you'd want to block 111 and 2049
> when doing so, whether via firewalld, iptables, nftables, or another
> frontend to the latter two, if they are enabled on a non-public
> network.
> 
> It'd be nice to have a way to associate a network and a zone and not
> have to remember easily-forgettable things. Given that NM and
> firewalld haven't done this integration, it's probably less than
> trivial, at least time-wise if not coding-wise.

I have everything set up using "public", including NFS, and this isn't
even a laptop. I don't claim any special expertise in this, indeed it
was largely by following Ed's advice that I got it to work. I'm afraid
the firewall docs are pretty obscure for the ordinary user.

poc
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