Shorewall users - Mar 2002 - opening port

I have added a port number to params file
FW_TCP_OUT_PORTS=3D5xx2
FW_UDP_OUT_PORTS=3D5xx2
and restart shorewall. But when I "netstat -nap --tcp" or
"nmap" I don''t see the newly added port. Can anyone tell what
going on?

thanks
Patrick

Opening ports in Shorewall has absolutely nothing to do with what shows up
in netstat. Netstat reports on open sockets -- if an application hasn''t
bound a socket to a given port then you won''t see an entry for the port
in
netstat.

-Tom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Patrick Munis" <pmunis@wwre.org>
To: "Tom Eastep" <teastep@shorewall.net>
Cc: <shorewall-users@shorewall.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: opening port


I have added a port number to params file
FW_TCP_OUT_PORTS=5xx2
FW_UDP_OUT_PORTS=5xx2
and restart shorewall. But when I "netstat -nap --tcp" or
"nmap" I don''t see
the newly added port. Can anyone tell what going on?

thanks
Patrick