On Thursday 30 January 2003 09:28 pm, you wrote:
> Hi.  Just me again.
>
> I'm confused about what I can use in Shorewall Policies and Rules to
> indicate the Firewall itself.  The text seems to tell me I must use $fw
> but the initially commented out line in the Policy file uses just fw.
> Are $fw and fw interchangeable in rules and policies?  Loc, dmz and net
> don't need the '$'?

No "$"

> BTW, the other day I mentioned that some standard setup file had
> allocated IP addresses in the same subnet to my eth1 and eth2.  The file
> that does that is the interfaces file in Bering if you accept the
> initially commented out configuration of the eth2 interface.  Have I
> missed something here?

You can't route between the same subnet.... that would be bridging.
In the example 192.168.x.y/24 the "x" is the subnet root for this network,
so "x" would have to be different numbers on a /24 network to allow
routing between the two interfaces.
-- 
~Lynn Avants
Linux Embedded Firewall Project developer
http://leaf.sourceforge.net


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