Re: [FW1] Aliases for Interfaces

[Matthias Leu <mleu@FW1-NOSPAMaerasec.de>]

Hi,
if you go to the GUI after having the objects.C changed, you will have to reload the
rulebase - even if you will see the correct rulebase in the editor. So if you
install again without reloading it, your changes in objects.C will be overwritten.

If you have changed some entries in objects.C you will have to read the objects.C
again - by opening the same rulebase again (file, open, yourrulebase)
There will be no changes in the rules, it looks the same. But by opening it the file
$FWDIR/conf/objects.C will be read and after installing this rulebase, your changes
will take effect.
Hope it helps
Best regards
Matthias



Thomas Poole wrote:

> There is a "feature" in fw-1. If you make modifications to the objects.c
> file, your modifications will be dumped unless you delete the backup files.
>
> I think they are called objects.c.bak (there may be another)
>
> Thomas Poole
>
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> From: LO GUIDICE, Yannick [mailto:Yannick.LOGUIDICE@MANE.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 8:26 AM
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> Subject: [FW1] Aliases for Interfaces
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> Hi all,
>
> I wanted to change the names of the interfaces of my Firewall, for it
> will be easier to read the logs and export and analyse them. I've FW1
> 4.1 SP2 on Winnt 4.0.
>
> So I went in the description of the interfaces and changed it.
>
> At first, it didn't work. I've managed to have the official-name of
> the interfaces changed, but not their description. I stopped the FW,
> changed the descriptions of the interfaces in the conf\objects.C file
> and restarted the FW. I checked and the description of the interfaces
> changed. Yahoo!!!
>
> But, the description of the interfaces in the log viewer didn't
> change. I found that the description of the interfaces was still bad
> in the database\objects.C file. I stopped the FW for the second time,
> modified this file, restarted the FW... I was very surprised to see
> that my modifications were scratched ; there are still the old
> descriptions of the interfaces in this file.
>
> So where the hell is FW1 looking for the descriptions of these
> interfaces ? What can I do ?
>
> Thanks.
>
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