Tom, I'm with you on all of the points below, except the dial-up.  These
instructions are specific to pppoe.  There's a separate dial-up page, and
these appear to have been copied and pasted from there and should be
updated.

Thanks for all of your work on Shorewall!

George

PS.  I have since printed up the Shorewall 1.3 docs and I'm reading up on
those Interfaces options.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Eastep [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 07, 2002 9:59 AM
> To: George Luft
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] pppoe shorewall setup ques.
> 
> 
> On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, George Luft wrote:
> 
> > Following the instructions in
> > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/bupppoe.html#AEN343
> > 
> > I added the net/ppp0/- line to the Interfaces file and 
> commented out the
> > eth0 line.  Should I have left eth0 in?
> 
> No.
> 
> > Do I need the dhcp, routefilter,
> > and norfc1918 options added to the ppp0 line?
> > 
> 
> PPPoE doesn't use DHCP so you don't need the dhcp option. 
> Routefilter is
> probably a good idea. Norfc1918 is a good idea unless your 
> ISP assigns RFC
> 1918 addresses for PPPoE in which case that option is a 
> spectacularly poor
> choice.

<snip>

> "Dial-up modem" != "PPPoE" -- so if the documentation that you are
> referring to talks about "dial-up modem", that documentation 
> is correct.  
> The key point is that the interface in the SUBNET column 
> should be the one
> that interfaces to your local network.

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