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Minor tweak to scalability doc

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@ -1959,6 +1959,19 @@ iptables: Invalid argument
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="faq78">
<title>(FAQ 78) After restart and bootup of my Debian firewall, all
traffic is blocked for hosts behind the firewall trying to connect out
onto the net or through the vpn (although i can reach the internal
firewall interface and obtain dumps etc). Once I issue 'shorewall clear'
followed by 'shorewall restart' it then works, despite the config not
changing</title>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Set IP_FORWARDING=On in
<filename><ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink></filename>.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="MultiISP">
@ -1998,19 +2011,6 @@ iptables: Invalid argument
will have mark = 1 and will be sent via ISP1. That will work whether
<emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis> is specified or not!</para>
</section>
<section id="faq78">
<title>(FAQ 78) After restart and bootup of my Debian firewall, all
traffic is blocked for hosts behind the firewall trying to connect out
onto the net or through the vpn (although i can reach the internal
firewall interface and obtain dumps etc). Once I issue 'shorewall clear'
followed by 'shorewall restart' it then works, despite the config not
changing</title>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Answer:</emphasis> Set IP_FORWARDING=On in
<filename><ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink></filename>.</para>
</section>
</section>
<section id="TC">

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docs/ScalabilityAndPerformance.xml
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@ -109,11 +109,11 @@
<section id="Shorewall">
<title>Scaling within the Shorewall Code</title>
<para>Shorewall is written entirely in Bourne Shell. While this allows
Shorewall to run on a wide range of distributions (included embedded
ones), the shell programming environment is not ideal for writing the
compiler portion of Shorewall. As a consequence, the code must repeatedly
perform sequential searches of lists. If a list has <emphasis
<para>Shorewall-shell is written entirely in Bourne Shell. While this
allows Shorewall to run on a wide range of distributions (included
embedded ones), the shell programming environment is not ideal for writing
the compiler portion of Shorewall. As a consequence, the code must
repeatedly perform sequential searches of lists. If a list has <emphasis
role="bold">N</emphasis> elements and a sequential search is made for each
of those elements, then the number of comparisons is 1 + 2 + 3 + .... +
<emphasis role="bold">N</emphasis> = <emphasis role="bold">N</emphasis> *
@ -157,8 +157,8 @@
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Use NONE policies wherever appropriate. This helps especially
in the rules activation phase of both script compilation and
<para>Use NONE policies wherever appropriate. This helps especially in
the rules activation phase of both script compilation and
execution.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
@ -209,4 +209,4 @@ ACCEPT $HOSTS </programlisting>
# PORT PORT(S) DEST LIMIT GROUP
AcceptHosts net $FW tcp 22 </programlisting>
</section>
</article>
</article>