# SLES11 SuSEfirewall2 issue

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/sles11-susefirewall2-issue/23360>\
**Category:** SLES Configure-Administer\
**Created:** [November 29, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles11-susefirewall2-issue/23360 "2012-11-29T16:42:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![netzpks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/67e7ee/32.png) [@netzpks](https://forums.suse.com/u/netzpks)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 4:42pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles11-susefirewall2-issue/23360/1 "2012-11-29T16:42:36Z")

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the length of  
FW\_SERVICE\_ACCEPT\_EXT="…"  
in file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 is limited to 2048.

About this limit the variable is cutted off and the firewall does not work.

Is there a possibility to increase the limit of 2048?

maybe this helps (LINE\_MAX)  
[http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/getconf.htm](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/getconf.htm)

Thanks for your helps

Kernel: Linux version 2.6.32.46-0.3-default  
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86\_64)  
VERSION = 11  
PATCHLEVEL = 1

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**Author:** ![malcolmlewis](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forums.suse.com/malcolmlewis/32/11375_2.png) [@malcolmlewis](https://forums.suse.com/u/malcolmlewis)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2012, 5:14pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/sles11-susefirewall2-issue/23360/2 "2012-11-29T17:14:32Z")

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> [@](#):
>
> On Thu 29 Nov 2012 02:44:02 PM CST, netzpks wrote:
> 
> the length of  
> FW\_SERVICE\_ACCEPT\_EXT=“…”  
> in file /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2 is limited to 2048.
> 
> About this limit the variable is cutted off and the firewall does not  
> work.
> 
> Is there a possibility to increase the limit of 2048?
> 
> maybe this helps (LINE\_MAX)  
> [http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/getconf.htm](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.aix.cmds/doc/aixcmds2/getconf.htm)
> 
> Thanks for your helps
> 
> Kernel: Linux version 2.6.32.46-0.3-default  
> SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (x86\_64)  
> VERSION = 11  
> PATCHLEVEL = 1

Hi  
Look in /etc/sysconfig/SuSEfirewall2.d/services directory at the  
TEMPLATE file and copy the TEMPLATE to a new rules file in there.

–  
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)  
openSUSE 12.2 (x86\_64) Kernel 3.4.11-2.16-desktop  
up 1 day 23:52, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.05  
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU