On 5/9/11 9:20 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 5/9/11 8:36 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>>
>>> Everything will be back to normal, unless you need policy routing out of
>>> the device (providers file).
>>>   
>> I don't use it - the tun0 device acquires its ip address upon connection
>> (and adds 4 routing table entries which are deleted when the connection
>> is closed). I take it then, everything I defined previously in terms of
>> tcclasses, tcrules, tcfilters and the like will be fully operational,
>> provided that device stayed in UP state and was open all along?
>>
>> The alternative, as you suggested, is to use shorewall-init, but I
>> haven't looked at it yet and I am not sure whether it is clever enough
>> to reload the firewall and introduce only the policy(ies) for that
>> particular device (rules entries, tcclasses, tcfilters, tcrules etc) and
>> not reload the whole lot, which would be a bit of a waste really.
> 
> As I have already described, shorewall-init executes this command:
> 
>       /var/lib/shorewall/firewall restart
> 
> So it reloads "the whole lot".

Actually, it executes

        /var/lib/shorewall/firewall {up|down} <interface>

For optional interfaces, that is equivalent to

        /var/lib/shorewall/firewall restart

For required interfaces, it is equivalent to

        /var/lib/shorewall/firewall {start|stop}

-Tom
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