Andrew Suffield wrote:
>I have a couple of firewalls that are rather complicated - one has 21
>interfaces, and the other has about 50 (there's some heavy use of
>802.1q, they only have half a dozen network cards). They work okay,
>but - compiling the rules takes a long time even on the faster
>servers, and restarting shorewall-lite takes between 5 and 10 minutes
>(during which time, only the routestopped stuff will work).

And I thought my 1 1/2 minutes to restart my setup with accounting 
rules for in and out on 254 addresses was bad !

Would it be 'less bad' to setup routestopped to allow everything ? I 
know it gives people a small window to do stuff they shouldn't - but 
is that better or worse than losing connectivity for 5 minutes ?

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