Shorewall users - Nov 2002 - Shorewall Processing time

Hello,

=09I am using shorewall in a situation that the rules change often.  I update=20
the rules with scripts, then restart shorewall.

On the machine that I am using, it takes about 30 seconds to do a shorewall=20
restart.  So I am looking for ways to speed this up, and cause less=20
intruptions during an update.  I am wondering what the "refresh"
option does. =20
I can''t seem to find in the doc or on the webpages what this does and
when it=20
should be used?

Can you point me to a place that explains the different options?

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Regards

Joseph Watson

--On Saturday, November 16, 2002 03:32:57 PM -0500 Joseph Watson 
<jtwatson@datakota.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 	I am using shorewall in a situation that the rules change often.  I
> update  the rules with scripts, then restart shorewall.
>
> On the machine that I am using, it takes about 30 seconds to do a
> shorewall  restart.  So I am looking for ways to speed this up, and cause
> less  intruptions during an update.  I am wondering what the
"refresh"
> option does.   I can''t seem to find in the doc or on the webpages
what
> this does and when it  should be used?
>
> Can you point me to a place that explains the different options?
>
Did it occur to you to type "refresh" in the Quick Search form on the 
Shorewall home page? The third item returned is 
"http://www.shorewall.net/starting_and_stopping_shorewall.htm which 
describes all of the "/sbin/shorewall" commands.

-Tom
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On Sunday 17 November 2002 07:27 pm, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Did it occur to you to type "refresh" in the Quick Search form on
the
> Shorewall home page?=20
I guess not.  Sorry!

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Regards

Joseph Watson