On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:18:53AM +0100, Darshaka Pathirana wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I also had the same problem yesterday.
> 
> After the reboot I had to issue
> 
> % shorewall clear
> % shorewall restart
> 
> So I created a "shorewall dump" directly after rebooting and one
> directly after clearing and restarting. The main difference I found was:
> 
> - /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward = 0
> + /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward = 1
> 
The best thing would be if you could send a compressed shorewall dump
from each of the following times:

 - just after reboot
 - after shorewall clear
 - after shorewall restart

If you are not comfortable sending it to the bug, then send to my email
directly.

> Ok, now it all makes sense. After researching the shorewall-doc I
> found this:
> 
> [1] http://www.shorewall.net/two-interface.htm#SNAT
> 
> and
> 
> /usr/share/doc/shorewall/README.Debian.gz
> 
> which states to set "IP_FORWARD=On" in the shorewall.conf.
> 
> So the problem seemed to be RTFM!
> 
> BUT..
> 
> As I just copied the files from
> "/usr/share/doc/shorewall/examples/two-interfaces" I think there
> should be some kind of "README.Debian" too where this issue should
> be mentioned!
> 
> HTH && HAND
>  - Darsha

I will certainly look into this.

Regards,

-Roberto
-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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