Firestarter Firewall Switch

If you use Firestarter you know the huge bummer that is restarting your settings upon a change of the working interface. Here’s a little script I’ve made to automatically change the running network interfaces on the firewall. Enjoy ;)

Note: My interfaces are eth0 and wlan0, make the correct modifications to comply with your requirements.

#!/bin/sh

while true; do
INTERFACE=0

ifconfig eth0 |grep -q "inet addr"
if [ $? = 0 ];
then
sed -i 's/wlan0/\eth0/' /etc/firestarter/configuration
else
sed -i 's/eth0/\wlan0/' /etc/firestarter/configuration
INTERFACE=1
fi

iptables -L |grep -q DROP
if [ $? != 0 ];
then firestarter -s > /dev/null
if [ $INTERFACE = 0 ];
then
echo "$(date) -- firestarter running on eth0" >> /var/log/messages
else
echo "$(date) -- firestarter running on wlan0" >> /var/log/messages
fi
fi

sleep 5

done