Simon is right. Shorewall maintains its own space without affecting anything except iptables because it is a wrapper to iptables.
Shorewall.net has the most comprehensive set of documents compared to that of FreeBSD. Any confusion gets settled by visiting the shorewall documentation, it is that good!! On 2/28/12, Simon Hobson <[email protected]> wrote: > Costantino wrote: > >>I'm running quite few Asterisk setups where the machine has got only >>Asterisk and it's part of an environment where another machine runs >>Shorewall, and I do not have any problem, whether with the VoIP >>telephones on the local LAN or TSP coming from the outside world. >> >>I believe with the configuration I've described the issue has got >>more to do with what Asterisk does in term of binding when Shorewall >>is active and the changes Shorewall has induced on the network on >>activation. >> >>In fact even with the both NIC cards present, the issue disappears >>as soon as Shorewall is disabled. > > No, Shorewall will **NOT** affect what Asterisk binds to. Shorewall > does **NOT** affect the interfaces available to a process, nor the IP > addresses the process will be able to detect on those interfaces. If > doing "shorewall clear" allows things to start working, then your > policies/rules are wrong - because "shorewall clear" only clears the > iptables rules etc, it cannot magically make a process bind to > interfaces it wasn't bound to before. > > The fact that you could see the packets entering an interface with > wireshark, but Asterisk didn't report anything, does suggest that > your policies/rules caused the packets to be dropped. > > Try "netstat -anp", that will show you what interfaces/ports are > being bound to. > > -- > Simon Hobson > > Visit http://www.magpiesnestpublishing.co.uk/ for books by acclaimed > author Gladys Hobson. Novels - poetry - short stories - ideal as > Christmas stocking fillers. Some available as e-books. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! > The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers > is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, > Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
