ll.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Variables. > > Ahhh. &<ifname>? Note that those first three variables in my list > above are interface names not their addresses. The .ipaddr ones are > addresses. Can I assume these runtime variables will work for > shorewall-lite installations?
Yes. > >> Shorewall will detect the gateway addresses for you and store them in >> shell variables in the generated script, but so far I haven't >> implemented gateway Runtime Address Variables, though. Not hard to do, >> though... > > Is this answering my question about application in shorewall-lite > configurations perhaps? Yes. > > I guess ultimately it would be nice to generalize my above ssh-and-eval > for an arbitrary list of <variable>=<the-result-of-some-command-on-gateway> > but with optimizing the remote executions into a single round-trip. > > The above trick does work though it not entirely straightforward for > the average user to figure out. You could run a script on the remote system that simply returned a list of assignment statements separated by semicolons or newlines that you could then just source locally. -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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