A paraphrase of the message I got (now lost in the mists of time) seemed to be asking me to make some choices about things that made little sense to me, so I chose the 'do nothing' button, on the theory that eventually I'd figure out what it was all about and could then go into configure computer>software>media (rpm) and do what ought to have been done in the first place. Above these choice buttons were three windows. Here's the first glob in the top window:
# Shorewall 2.0 -- Interfaces File
#
# /etc/shorewall/interfaces
#
# You must add an entry in this file for each network interface on your
# firewall system.
#
# Columns are:
#
# ZONE Zone for this interface. Must match the short name
# of a zone defined in /etc/shorewall/zones.
#
# If the interface serves multiple zones that will be
# defined in the /etc/shorewall/hosts file, you should
# place "-" in this column.
#
# INTERFACE Name of interface. Each interface may be listed only
# once in this file. You may NOT specify the name of
# an alias (e.g., eth0:0) here; see
#
http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq18
#
# You may specify wildcards here. For example, if you
# want to make an entry that applies to all PPP
# interfaces, use 'ppp+'.
#
# There is no need to define the loopback interface (lo)
# in this file.
And it goes on for about 8 pp.
Here's the first glob in the next window:
#
# Shorewall 2.0 -- Interfaces File
#
# /etc/shorewall/interfaces
#
# You must add an entry in this file for each network interface on your
# firewall system.
#
# Columns are:
#
# ZONE Zone for this interface. Must match the short name
# of a zone defined in /etc/shorewall/zones.
#
# If the interface serves multiple zones that will be
# defined in the /etc/shorewall/hosts file, you should
# place "-" in this column.
#
# INTERFACE Name of interface. Each interface may be listed only
# once in this file. You may NOT specify the name of
# an alias (e.g., eth0:0) here; see
#
http://www.shorewall.net/FAQ.htm#faq18
#
# You may specify wildcards here. For example, if you
# want to make an entry that applies to all PPP
# interfaces, use 'ppp+'.
#
# There is no need to define the loopback interface (lo)
# in this file.
And it goes on for about 3pp.
Here's the third in entirety:
--- /etc/shorewall/interfaces 2005-06-28 12:12:23.000000000 -0400
+++ /etc/shorewall/interfaces.rpmnew 2005-07-20 14:53:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
#
# BROADCAST The broadcast address for the subnetwork to which the
# interface belongs. For P-T-P interfaces, this
-# column is left black.If the interface has multiple
+# column is left blank.If the interface has multiple
# addresses on multiple subnets then list the broadcast
# addresses as a comma-separated list.
#
@@ -191,6 +191,4 @@
##############################################################################
#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
#
-net ppp+ detect
-loc eth0 detect
#LAST LINE -- ADD YOUR ENTRIES BEFORE THIS ONE -- DO NOT REMOVE
To me, this might as well be written in Ancient Sumarian for all that I understand.
Any info greatly appreciated. And greatly relieved that I wasn't transgressing. I've offended 7 people this morning already. Sigh.
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