Re: shorewall

[Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:47:04AM -0000, Luis wrote:
> 
> any1 here know how to deal with shorewall?
> Determining Zones...
>    Warning: Reserved zone name "fw" in zones file ignored
>    Zones: net loc
> Validating interfaces file...
>    Error: Invalid Interface Name: eth0:1
> however
> eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:44:E7:18
>           inet addr:10.30.142.14  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           Interrupt:17 Base address:0x1080
> 
> is there a way to patch that ?

It's not telling you that the interface doesn't exist, it's saying that it
doesn't do aliases.  Which is completely reasonable, once you grok
Shorewall's zones model -- how do you manage to have two zones on the same
piece of wire?

- Matt