On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 11:49:45 -0500, you wrote:
On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:33 am, Michael W Cocke wrote:
Interesting - I've been using Suse on my firewall since 9.1 and I never encountered this problem before, nor did I have it with Redhat before that. Not saying you're not right, but that's a hell of a chain of cooincidences!
Anyway, for the record, I figured out what I was missing and it works now. I did it differently.
Mike-
Thanks for not sharing your solution. The PERSISTENT_NAME solution is the one recommended by SUSE. What did you end up doing?
Stan
It's a bit long and since it's not the one SuSE recommends, I didn't post it so I could get flamed for a long post.... Go win.
From my wiki ----
For the archives, here's the finished workaround for using shorewall with SuSE 9.3 Put the following in /etc/rc.d/S07shorewall, right after start) and before exec /sbin/shorewall -f start (Mind the word wrap - there are blank lines between each command) echo "Stabilizing eth interface names" >/var/log/ifaceinit echo -n "Stabilizing eth interface names" echo "Before------------------------------" >>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig >>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig eth0 down >>/var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig eth1 down >>/var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit '# remember to insert YOUR MAC ADDRESSES - these are mine! /sbin/nameif foo0 00:40:05:7A:E0:84 >> /var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/nameif foo1 00:09:5B:BD:A5:98 >> /var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/nameif eth0 00:40:05:7A:E0:84 >> /var/log/ifaceinit 2>> /var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/nameif eth1 00:09:5B:BD:A5:98 >> /var/log/ifaceinit 2>> /var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up >>/var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up >>/var/log/ifaceinit 2>>/var/log/ifaceinit echo "After----------------------------" >>/var/log/ifaceinit /sbin/ifconfig>>/var/log/ifaceinit '# assumes eth0 is your external interface - if it isn't, change this line! route add default eth0 '# put this here just to make me happy echo " - OK" sleep 10 ------------------------------------------------ Mike- -- Mornings: Evolution in action. Only the grumpy will survive. -- Please note - Due to the intense volume of spam, we have installed site-wide spam filters at catherders.com. If email from you bounces, try non-HTML, non-encoded, non-attachments.