[Shorewall-users] $FW vs fw

2014-04-29 Thread Michael Kress
Hi, just curious about a little thing ... sometimes I saw $FW in rules files, sometimes fw. When using $FW - does it have to be declared in params as FW=fw ? What is the preferred way? fw or $FW? TIA Michael -- Accelerate

Re: [Shorewall-users] $FW vs fw

2014-04-29 Thread matt darfeuille
As far as I know fw or $FW are equivalent. Fw is simply the zone-name of the firewall as explained in the zone file! So I would say that both can be used interchangeably. -Matt On 29 Apr 2014 at 10:29, Michael Kress wrote: Hi, just curious about a little thing ... sometimes I saw $FW in

Re: [Shorewall-users] $FW vs fw

2014-04-29 Thread Tom Eastep
On 4/29/2014 2:16 AM, matt darfeuille wrote: As far as I know fw or $FW are equivalent. Fw is simply the zone-name of the firewall as explained in the zone file! So I would say that both can be used interchangeably. Matt is correct -- see Shorewall FAQ 95. -Tom -- Tom Eastep\

[Shorewall-users] Conntrack table high

2014-04-29 Thread Hristo Benev
Hi, It might be a bit offtopic... My conntrack table is filling from time to time. Any suggestions how to find what is the cause? Thanks Hristo -- Accelerate Dev Cycles with Automated Cross-Browser Testing - For FREE

[Shorewall-users] Multi-Isp and VPN

2014-04-29 Thread Marcello Giordano
Hi, Thanks for this great piece of software! I'm trying to setup my network as follows: $FW machine is running shorewall and has two NICs, one (wlan1) connected to the internet through a router; the second (eth0) masquerading a subnet. I recently bought a VPN access (I use OpenVPN on interface