Zones (for IPFire 3.x)

A zone is a bridged networking interface and can have one or more ports assigned.
Allowed names for zones are greenN, orangeN, redN and greyN (whereas N stands for an integer number). There are typical features and behaviours for the different zones.

Things to know:

• Spanning Tree Protocol (for IPFire 3.x) is enabled by default on every zone.

Supported types of zones:

• Bridges
• PPPoE
• Modems (=UMTS/3G)

Usage

Create a new zone

network zone create <name> <hook>

Delete a zone

network zone delete <name>

Configure a zone

network zone <name> ...