Tom Eastep wrote:

>Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.1.
>
>1)  A new EXPAND_POLICIES option is added to shorewall.conf. The
>     option is recognized by Shorewall-perl and is ignored by
>     Shorewall-shell.
>
>     Normally, when the SOURCE or DEST columns in shorewall-policy(5)
>     contains 'all', a single policy chain is created and the policy is
>     inforced in that chain. For example, if the policy entry is
>
>              #SOURCE DEST POLICY LOG
>              #                   LEVEL
>              net     all  DROP   info
>
>     then the chain name is 'net2all' which is also the chain named in
>     Shorewall log messages generated as a result of the policy. If
>     EXPAND_POLICIES=Yes, then Shorewall-perl will create a separate
>     chain for each pair of zones covered by the policy. This makes the
>     resulting log messages easier to interpret since the chain in the
>     messages will have a name of the form 'a2b' where 'a' is the SOURCE
>     zone and 'b' is the DEST zone. See
>     http://linuxman.wikispaces.com/PPPPPPS for more information.

Am I right in thinking that this means we can now leave out all those 
"x y drop" policies that are only in there for logging/debugging 
purposes ?

Nice :-)

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