On 08/01/2014 11:02 AM, Tom Eastep wrote: > On 8/1/2014 7:02 AM, Mike Coan wrote: >> List members >> >> Currently using Shorewall 4.5.11 on opensuse 12.3 >> >> Building a new firewall using opensuse 13.1. After installing opensuse >> 13.1 I notice that the two NICs are named >> >> enp0s9 and enp0s18 as opposed to >> eth0 and eth1 >> >> I can manually rename them to eth0 and eth1 and proceed. In fact, I may >> have done that with 12.3 but I don't remember. >> >> Two questions. >> >> 1) In my Shorewall config files can I replace eth0 with enp0s9 and eth1 >> with enp0s18 and have things work > > Yes. > >> >> 2) Is there any benefit to using the new naming scheme? >> > > You may as well -- all of the distros are going to new naming schemes. > >> I guess there is a third question. My firewall is pretty simple. >> Should I define the interfaces in the params file (e.g. $INT_IF and >> $EXT_IF) to make it easier to handle changes like this in the future? >> > > For what it is worth, that is what I do. You can also use logical > interface names -- see shorewall-interfaces(5) for details. > > -Tom > Tom,
Thank you very much for the quick reply and the reference to shorewall-interfaces (5) Mike -- Michael A. Coan Woodlawn Foundation, Inc. 56 Harrison Street, Suite 401 New Rochelle, NY 10801-6560 Tel: 914-632-3778 Fax: 914-632-5502 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
