On Apr 27, 2011, at 12:18 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Folk, > > As I understand, in shorewall, "fw" always identifies the firewall zone. > So I'll speculate that $FW is really only needed to provide the name to > another software in the system. True? Example?
$FW always identifies the firewall zone. "fw" is the default name in the Sample
configurations but you are free to choose any name you like. There was once a
product ("Shoreconf" or something similar) for keeping multiple configurations
on a central system. Each firewall could have a different name, but $FW always
meant "The system where this instance of Shorewall is running". That product
was obsoleted by shorewall-lite, but we have kept $FW for compatibility.
$FW is also handy in documentation, because it always works no matter what the
user decides to call the firewall zone.
>
> Incidentally, in reading to find an explanation, I noticed this spelling
> error in http://www.shorewall.net/three-interface.htm.
> "... processed, he name of the firewall zone ..."
>
Thanks,
-Tom
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