On 8/1/2014 7:02 AM, Mike Coan wrote: > List members > > Currently using Shorewall 4.5.11 on opensuse 12.3 > > Building a new firewall using opensuse 13.1. After installing opensuse > 13.1 I notice that the two NICs are named > > enp0s9 and enp0s18 as opposed to > eth0 and eth1 > > I can manually rename them to eth0 and eth1 and proceed. In fact, I may > have done that with 12.3 but I don't remember. > > Two questions. > > 1) In my Shorewall config files can I replace eth0 with enp0s9 and eth1 > with enp0s18 and have things work
Yes. > > 2) Is there any benefit to using the new naming scheme? > You may as well -- all of the distros are going to new naming schemes. > I guess there is a third question. My firewall is pretty simple. > Should I define the interfaces in the params file (e.g. $INT_IF and > $EXT_IF) to make it easier to handle changes like this in the future? > For what it is worth, that is what I do. You can also use logical interface names -- see shorewall-interfaces(5) for details. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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