[CentOS] CentO 8 and nftables default policy

Sat Apr 18 20:22:18 UTC 2020
Alan McRae <amcrae at island42.net>

I had the same problem.

If you are not using virtual machines then

    # systemctl disable libvirtd

works and is easily reversible.

Alan

On 18/04/2020 23:03, Alessandro Baggi wrote:
> Il 17/04/20 11:01, Alessandro Baggi ha scritto:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm studying nftables. I'm using CentOS 8.1 (Gnome) and I disabled 
>> firewalld. I noticed that a default policy is created with tables and 
>> chains probably for firewalld.
>>
>> So I created a .nft script where I stored my rules with a flush for 
>> previous ruleset, then saved on /etc/sysconfig/nftables.conf and the 
>> enabled nftables service.
>>
>> Running the script with nft -f script.nft all work as expected but 
>> when rebooting, running nft list ruleset I find my rules and the 
>> default policy (chains and tables) that I would not have in my 
>> configuration.
>>
>> My nftables.conf contains only my ruleset.
>>
>> For example, running nft list tables I found several default tables 
>> like:
>>
>> table ip filter
>> table ip6 filter
>> table bridge filter
>> table ip nat
>> table ip mangle
>>
>> So probably there is something that is applying its policy but I 
>> ignore what is.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction?
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
> Hi have not received any replies but I tried to investigate. After 
> checking configuration files in my system I supposed that this could 
> caused by a daemon, so I found that libvirtd push some rules.
>
> running virsh nwfilter-list I get:
>
>  UUID                                  Nome
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>  34fe8cba-af99-4438-8efc-b135143425e2  allow-arp
>  dc110112-3824-4cf3-946f-ba6e15cd29c3  allow-dhcp
>  fecc383a-bab5-465d-a5be-98834fb626ce  allow-dhcp-server
>  761e7132-8738-47c2-8101-275d6fd6a347  allow-incoming-ipv4
>  d37b017f-8f21-4ad0-9fa6-052a5cb1ed2e  allow-ipv4
>  a8c740d5-328c-452e-bae7-9828c54f95b7  clean-traffic
>  296bdfad-11d9-4aa0-9817-4656ef2be6e5  clean-traffic-gateway
>  69215a61-bff5-482a-b913-589bb1ce18f2  no-arp-ip-spoofing
>  70c61f0a-c005-407f-843d-d13c2495f05d  no-arp-mac-spoofing
>  386cd2f4-7272-43e2-ba1f-80cb3518649c  no-arp-spoofing
>  9117fa21-e3d6-4c32-9cdf-af97ebd6599e  no-ip-multicast
>  7a964470-4f74-4eef-9fec-a0e9a79e168d  no-ip-spoofing
>  8c9e45a3-5d44-4641-b23d-eded5c1f1632  no-mac-broadcast
>  82dcd4f0-f55a-43ad-b520-d4c8d4bf37cd  no-mac-spoofing
>  bdd0ba54-7ce0-4a2c-9c25-c24072d364ba  no-other-l2-traffic
>  fc50783e-d32b-42ba-8380-7576c4388244  no-other-rarp-traffic
>  edfc1bb3-b325-4f8d-8c5b-423e55da66eb  qemu-announce-self
>  8556bd82-dc97-47b0-b573-5986ebbad3b2  qemu-announce-self-rarp
>
> If I will remove these libvirt filters I will get errors?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
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