[Fwbuilder-discussion] "verify interfaces before loading policy" option?

[Steve L. <ste...@sc...>]

Hi all

First post to this mail list, but I am a happy long time fwbuilder user 
(ever since Redhat changed the default from IPChains to IPTables).

I am currently still running v1.1.2-1 due to a feature that appears to have 
been lost in v2.0+, and that is the option to:

    "verify interfaces before loading policy"

Has this option been "Lost" or am I just going blind? I have been without 
broadband for over a year now (moved house, sadly to the backend of UKs 
broadband rollout), and have been getting frustrated on dialup ever since. 
When I installed and tried v2.0+, if ppp0 didnt exist when booting, then the 
script failed, and I didnt want to have to edit that part of the script 
everytime I edit the policy, so I reverted back to v1.1.2-1 and disabled the 
interface checks.

Also, in the off chance that I do finally get broadband here in the near-ish 
future, what do you guys use for QoS/Bandwidth Management on Linux boxes?

Many thanks for your help, sorry if these are FAQs, (I did search the mail 
list archives!)

Steve