On 03/23/2013 05:54 PM, Mr Dash Four wrote:

>>> What does ${VARDIR}/firewall <up|down> <iface> do exactly? I am 
>>> particularly interested to know whether any of the rules or 
>>> traffic-shaping rules are (re-)defined or reset?
>>>     
>>
>> It depends; see the tables in http://www.shorewall.net/Shorewall-init.html.
>>   
> That doesn't really tell me much. If my interface goes down, then the 
> routes disappear and I also assume the traffic shaping policies 
> associated with that interface do the same. I am not 100% certain about 
> the rules though. So, when shorewall-init executes filrewall up <iface> 
> is this redefined to the state it was before the firewall started?

As shown in the table, an 'enable' operation is performed on the interface.

From shorewall(8):

enable

        ... The command sets /proc entries for the interface, adds any
        route specified in shorewall-routes(5) and installs the
        interface's traffic shaping configuration, if any.

For each provider, the compiler generates a 'start' function. That
function is called during 'shorewall start' and during 'shorewall enable'.

-Tom
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