On 12 Jun. 2000 at 09:48 Gerhard Sittig wrote:
SuSEfirewall complaints about "no such command", obviously when executing FW_DEV_WORLD_eth1:0="62.153.66.51 255.255.255.248".
Try asking your shell's manpage. I guess colons aren't supposed to appear in variable's names.
I escaped the colon - all the same. But that's not the point: I expect the people at SuSE to take the posting as a kind of "bug report" and change the behaviour of the script.
Issue this command at an interactive prompt and you will get the same result (BTW: You snipped the full error message above not saying _which_ command cannot be found. This could have given some clue, maybe.).
There it is: | /sbin/SuSEfirewall: FW_DEV_WORLD_eth1:0=X.X.X.X Y.Y.Y.Y: command not found
But using an aliased interface as the outside device is questionable, anyway.
Background: Some IRC-Servers reject the connection, if it comes from a nameserver. As the primary nameserver for my domain runs on the firewall, I had to put up another IP-Adress for DNS. Another NIC is not an option because "outside" is a cisco router. Both interfaces (eth1 and eth1:0) are therefore used for connections to the wilderness. The cisco is part of my ADSL-setup and I have no access to this routers management software (Thanks to DTAG :-( ).
If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you.
Nice. ;-) Regards/Gruss - Winni -