On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 21:43 +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
> Yeah that's what I was aiming for now (external script running on
> NetworkManager dispatch event).
> I was just checking if I didn't miss any features already there.
> 
> 
> For now, I think it's easiest to just have a few config directories.
> I let the script setup a 'current' symlink and restart shorewall with
> that.

Shorewall also supports multiple configuration directories; see
http://www.shorewall.net/configuration_file_basics.htm#Levels
> 
> 
> This might quickly grow out of control, and the amount of duplication
> in the configs is quite a lot, but most of the time, firewall rules
> are something I setup once, and don't change a lot anymore, until a
> revision some 5 years later.
> If it bothers me, I might look into params / conditional blocks.

You can also put files that are the same in multiple configs in a
separate directory and use CONFIG_PATH.

-Tom
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