Re: [Shorewall-devel] Shorewall and IPV6

[Simon M. <sim...@ch...>]

> On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 14:45 -0200, Eduardo Ferreira wrote:
>>
>> Tom wrote on 06/01/2005 14:31:06:
>>
>> > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 07:58 -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> > > On Thu, 2005-01-06 at 19:11 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> >
>> > I shouldn't try to do design before my first morning coffee. Using
>> "/"
>> > is awkward because it appears in CIDR notation. But another
>> separator,
>> > such as ";" would work.
>> >
>> > -Tom
>> Could I humbly suggest using "=3D" as the separator? I think a rule
>> like
>>
>> ACCEPT        loc=3D192.168.0.1 net tcp 3133
>>
>> is better to read then
>>
>> ACCEPT        loc;192.168.0.1 net tcp 3133
>>
>> is it not?
>
> Actually, I prefer ";". In Shorewall, "=3D" has its usual Shell meaning
> (assignment).

I'm afraid I don't like the ";" here because it's usually a separator for
a list of things. What about "@"? Like

ACCEPT        loc@192.168.0.1 net tcp 3133

I'd prefer it.

Simon