Phil DeVries wrote:

>>
>> Try adding that address to the zone that corresponds to the
>> Windows system and see if that helps.
> 
> I revised my "Hosts" file from
> 
> brloc br0:192.168.1.130-192.168.1.254 routeback,nosmurfs
> 
> to
> 
> brloc br0:192.168.1.130-192.168.1.254,0.0.0.0 routeback,nosmurfs.
> 
> This did not work.

What does that mean?

- Shorewall didn't start?
- Your firewall erupted in flames?
???

> Also, this did not prevent the linux os from
> getting an ip address from DHCP, which is what I expected.

I didn't expect that side effect. The Linux OS broadcast is $FW-><whatever>;
why would that be affected by the definition of brloc? If you want to pursue
this, I'll need the output of "shorewall dump" collected as described at
http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm#
Guidelines.

> 
> Is there another limitation here too?  I presume there's no way
> to guarantee that a DHCP server will grant me an address inside
> the range for brloc.  What happens if DHCP tries to give Windows
> an address outside that range?

Let's cut to the chase. Dynamic addresses are never going to work correctly
with the bridge technique described at
http://www.shorewall.net/NewBridge.html. Shorewall-perl has a new
implementation of bridge support that uses the reduced-function physdev
match support in 2.6.20 and later kernels. Shorewall 4.0.0 Beta 4 will work
with kernel 2.6.20; you will have to wait until Beta 5 for complete support
for 2.6.21.

-Tom
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