Re: Shorewall maintenance

Vieri Di Paola <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:25:19 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.shorewall
Message-ID <CABLYT9g7MzZYhcGwbrzvgeS57ZVWFxY27vkCwr_gNrVr+Xg8Cg@mail.gmail.com>
As already stated by others I'm also deeply grateful for what
Shorewall has done for me.
It sure makes iptables look easy... but I think it's great that it
also takes care of tc, route tables, route rules, etc.
So it's much more than a "firewall".

Incidentally, I'm seeing these errors more often lately:

Running /sbin/arptables-restore...
*** Flush not complete bailing out after 10 rounds
   ERROR: Command "ip -4 neigh flush nud stale nud reachable" Failed

I wonder if I need to increase the number of rounds because I have
quite a complex system.
Actually I have 2 complex shorewall boxes, and I'm procrastinating the
migration to another system because I know I won't have a tool as
complete as Shorewall.

Anyway, thanks again to the whole team.
Enjoy life, Tom.

Thanks,

Vieri