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Re: Shorewall & network/interfaces



On Tue,25.Nov.08, 06:04:52, Tom Allison wrote:
> I too am trying to set-up Shorewall as a firewall box.
> And I ran into some peculiar problems that are related to shorewall
> and not related to shorewall.
> 
> right now I'm trying to get the firewall interfaces to come up on the
> same network.  So eth0 and eth1 are both on 192.168.1.0/24 with eth1
> being DHCP and eth0 being static (eth0 will be my LAN and eth1 will be
> my internet).
 
Do they *need* to be on the same network?

> Bringing up shorewall turns into a complete mess of other issues that
> I want to RTFM for first.  But my question related to shorewall is
> this: how much information does shorewall and network/interfaces
> share/collide?  There are settings in the shorewall interfaces file
> that are duplications of the debian network/interfaces files and I'm
> not sure if one is ignored, one needs to be synced...

They are related only as much as using the same interfaces names in both 
;)

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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