Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition

Configuring the host firewall through the CLI

We can also configure and manage the host zone firewall through the CLI. The firewall configuration file for the host is in /etc/pve/local/host.fw. The following screenshot shows the content of the host.fw file:

As we can see in the preceding screenshot, there are only two segments in the firewall configuration file for the host zone. They are as follows:

    [OPTIONS]
    . . . . . . . .
    
    [RULES]
    . . . . . . . .  

The functions of these segments are exactly the same as the segments in the Configuring the Datacenter firewall through the CLI section earlier in this chapter. Note that there are no segments ...