[Shorewall-devel] Docs - QSG & Samples Issues

Tom Eastep
2002-06-06T13:35:38Z

Thanks, Ron

On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Ron Shannon wrote:

> Attached is file "QSG-issues-1.0.txt" containing a numbered and
> commented list of issues collected from contributors and recent lists
> activity. It might be cool to have these issues in some spiffy issue
> tracking system like RT or something, but for a low tech start
it''ll
> probably suffice.
>

I resist the notion that the default MASQ file should have any entry in
it. While most people that use the QSG will be doing masquerading, many
fireall/gateway applications don''t need (or want) masquerading at all.
So
in my view, it is completely proper to include masq entries in the samples
but I don''t think the same applies for the default file.

One other point that needs expanding on. As Ron mentioned, when the RPM is
installed, it sets up the firewall to start automatically at cold load.
But so does the install script (and it tells you if it was unable to make
that happen).

So the only case where the firewall doesn''t automatically start and no
indication is given is if the user decided to truely install Shorewall
"manually". In that case, no amount of documentation is going to help
because it''s 99% certain that the guy isn''t reading what we
write anyway.

-Tom
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