Re: [Shorewall-users] Shorewall, TC, ephemeral devices

[Tom E. <te...@sh...>]

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy wrote:
> On 5/22/06, Tom Eastep <te...@sh...> wrote:
> 
>> The patch you sent is empty. Plus, I'll want to think about whether I
> 
> Sorry, I've reattached it with this mail.
> 
>> want to take this approach or not; in 3.2, it's a very non-trivial
>> change given that the traffic-shaping parser has to handle both
>> 'shorewall compile' (which may be done on a computer other than where
>> the script is to run) and 'shorewall refresh' (which always runs on the
>> computer where Shorewall is being refreshed).
> 
> The compiled version is a script right? So it should be pretty much
> the same approach, extra code is generated to ensure that the device
> is there before the 'tc' scripts are run, if I'm not much mistaken. On
> the refresh, if the device exists, it does the same function as
> before, if it doesn't it is skipped again.

I'll expect a patch.

-Tom
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