On 02/10/2018 08:52 AM, Matt Darfeuille wrote: > > It's always interesting to learn how Shorewall works! > Given your explanation it clearly makes no sense to nitpick about this. > The reason why I was asking is that my interface is configure by dhcp. > My understanding is that shorewall should be reloaded when a new lease > is acquired?
It depends. If you use the interface's address variable, then you must
reload the ruleset. Othewise, it should only be required when the
interface first comes up.
> Based on that asumption I have a script in
> /etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d that will reload shorewall when the
> 'reason' is 'BOUND' and I was simply looking for a way to only reload
> shorewall when it is already started.
You can:
shorewall status > /dev/null 2>&1 && shorewall reload
-Tom
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