Shorewall users - Sep 2007 - Warning: Support for the 'detectnets' interface option to be removed from Shorewall-perl

The ''detectnets'' interface option has always been a rather
silly feature.
For incoming packets, it duplicates the function of the
''routefilter''
option. It provides no value on output since it enforces the same thing that
the routing table does. In other words, if you set
''routefilter'' and
''log_martians'' you get the same effect.

I''ve decided to remove the ''detectnet'' option from
future versions of
Shorewall-perl. Shorewall-perl 4.0.4 will issue a warning message that the
option is going away; Shorewall-perl will issue a warning message that
support for the option has been dropped.

-Tom
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Tom Eastep wrote:
> 
> I''ve decided to remove the ''detectnet'' option
from future versions of
> Shorewall-perl. Shorewall-perl 4.0.4 will issue a warning message that the
> option is going away; Shorewall-perl will issue a warning message that
> support for the option has been dropped.
> 
Shorewall-perl _4.0.5_ will issue the warning that support for the
option has been dropped.


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