Re: Timing Shorewall's startup

["Karl E. Jørgensen" <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>]

Hi

On 16/08/13 13:12, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Karl E. Jørgensen a écrit :
>> On 16/08/13 07:34, Johann Spies wrote:
>>> My home network server is also the gateway to the internet.
>>>
>>> I have configured /etc/default/shorewall to wait for the ppp-interface
>>> (adsl) before it starts.
>> Why do you need shorewall to wait for the interface?
> Maybe because it needs to know its IP address ?

Yes - that's sort of what I was alluding to. If the box is a router,
then (I thought) that people normally set it up to do masquerading,
rather than SNAT with a specific IP, as masquerading picks the IP
address on the outgoing interface...

-- 
Karl