On 5/8/11 5:17 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
> 
>> Which is what the attached patch does.
>>   
> Ignored as I've seen your other post.
> 
>> Your next post seems to whine about the Shorewall requirement that
>> interface names mentioned in SOURCE and DEST columns must be defined in
>> /etc/shorewall/interfaces. You can complain all you want but that isn't
>> going to change.
>>   
> The reason it isn't there is because it takes no part in any of my zones
> nor is it constraint by any of blacklists, rules etc - I will only need
> this interface for traffic shaping and maybe accounting at a later stage
> - same with "lo" really.

Shorewall knows about 'lo' and sets up ACCEPT rules in and out of that
interface.

> 
> If I "register" this interface in the interfaces file, but place a dash
> (-) and "ignore" in the options column would that work?
> 

It would make your tcrules compile cleanly. But you must have extremely
liberal policies if traffic in and out of such an interface is accepted
by the filtering part of Netfilter.

-Tom
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