On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:30 +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> 
> Well, I was thinking more about filtering rules. But the point in the
> boot process when shorewall starts should be before anything else that
> uses the network, aside from the fundamental things like dhcp and
> ping.

Indeed, include PPP ip-up in that list.  The thing is that a DHCP "lease
acquired" script or a PPP ip-up script might want to go out to the
Internet and update a DDNS service with the new address.  As one
example.

Certainly, this could be done in a two stage process.  Instead of doing
the DDNS updates it could simply stash the data for a process later on
in boot to do the updates.

>  People who start it later do so at their own risk.

Or start trying to work with the network before Shorewall has done it's
thing, but yes, agreed.

b.

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