Re: [Shorewall-users] Obscure error from bogus masq entry

[Andrew S. <asu...@su...>]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 12:27:01PM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Today I discovered that if you aren't paying attention, and use a zone
> > name in the SOURCE column in the masq file, shorewall attempts to
> > interpret it as an interface name and complains about being unable to
> > determine the routes, which is somewhat mystifying (at least until you
> > read the firewall script and see what it's doing).
> > 
> > It would be far clearer if it checked to see whether an interface of
> > the given name exists at all, and complained about that
> > instead.
> 
> Using Shorewall Perl:
> 
> gateway:~ # shorewall check
> Checking...
>    ERROR: Unknown Interface (foo) : /etc/shorewall/masq ( line 21 )
> gateway:~ #

Heh, guess you're one step ahead of me.