On 3/5/11 9:37 AM, Evi1M4chine wrote:
> Hey, great news.  Thank you, man.
> 
>> Actually, there is good news. I had originally taken a similar decision
>> with respect to port lists in that Shorewall-perl did not originally
>> support port lists with more than 15 ports, even though that was
>> supported by Shorewall-shell. I later came up with a way to post-process
>> rules with large port lists and break them into multiple rules.

> I wonder why it’s so complicated though. Because iptables doesn’t 
> support multiple port types or more than 15 ports? I guess then iptables 
> needs a general patch. :)

It doesn't support more that 15 ports (originally, it didn't support
port lists at all).

> Because I agree that that is no thing that Shorewall should do. It 
> should be able to just pass a list to iptables.
> 
>> The attached patch does the same for ICMP lists. It applies with offsets
>> to Shorewall 4.4.15 (which is what I believe Gentoo currently supports):
>>
>>      patch /usr/share/shorewall/Shorewall/Chains<  ICMPLISTS.patch
>>
>> This patch will be included in Shorewall 4.4.19.
> Anyway, thanks. Trying it out today.
> 
> By the way: If you still think I’m doing something wrong, I’m happy to 
> learn something.

No, you are not -- when I added the ability to support > 15 ports in a
list, I should have added the ability to support ICMP type lists at the
same time. My oversight.

Let me know if you have problems with the patch.

Thanks,
-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
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