Switching to FORMAT 2 did the trick.
Thanks so much.
By the way, I'm actually using Shorewall version 4.5.21 - I'm not sure
where I got "4.4.26" from. :(


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Sounds like you have a FORMAT 1 configuration file.  If you want to
> continue using FORMAT 1, you will have to place a '-' in the BROADCAST
> column to get the compiler to skip it and move on to the options.
>
> You can also switch to FORMAT 2.
>
> You can have a look at shorewall-interfaces(5) for details.
>
> Regards,
>
> -Roberto
>
> On Tue, Jul 08, 2014 at 01:08:53PM -0400, Db Clinton wrote:
> >    Hi,
> >    Shorewall on a new installation isn't compiling and reports this
> error:
> >
> >      ERROR: Invalid BROADCAST address /etc/shorewall/interfaces (line 2)
> >
> >    I've read that until version 4.2.x there was a bug that could lead to
> this
> >    error, but I'm using 4.4.26.1-1. And in any case, I haven't got a
> >    BROADCAST column. The problem goes away when I remove all arguments
> >    (tcpflags,nosmurfs,routefilter,logmartians,sourceroute=0) from the
> >    interface entry. Any one argument will make the compile fail. As I'd
> like
> >    to use arguments, does anyone have any idea what I should be doing
> >    differently?
> >    Thanks,
> >    David
>
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