From: "Tom Eastep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> > It used to work with no problems with Shorewall 3.0 and also with earlier
> > 3.2 releases
> 
> I need to know which earlier 3.2 release(s).

I am not sure to be able to track this down, because the two firewalls are
managed by other people (I only did the initial setup); I only know when
they reported the problems. The first firewall failed apparently after the
update to 3.2.3-1.fc4, the first days of September; the second one today,
after the update to 3.2.4-1.fc4. I don't know the reason of this difference.

> If you wish to report problems with startup, you must send a trace. Taking
> a command out of context and saying "look, this didn't work" will get you
> sympathy but no help.

I apologize; I didn't read the Troubleshooting Guide before writing... otherwise
I would have already sent the "shorewall debug start 2> /tmp/trace" output.

> > (masquerading for all machines in loc except for the two with static NAT).
> 
> Which is totally unnecessary -- static nat is applied before masquerade.

This is good news; probably I did not understand well the documentation.
Or maybe it was necessary in some (very old) version?

> I found a bug that may explain this problem. But it is a "day-1" 3.2 bug so I
> don't know if the attached patch to /usr/share/shorewall/compiler will correct
> your problem or not.

It does!

> At any rate, what you were doing (exclusing the static nat addresses from
> masquerade) is unnecessary.

Noted, thanks. Now I have a simpler config...

> That should have been "*excluding* the static...".

I did'nt even notice the typo ;)

> Also, I just noticed that the patch in my previous message contained changes
> to the release notes as well as to the compiler. Here's a proper patch.

I already applied only the modifications to the code.

Tom, thanks a lot for your outstanding support. I would like to take this 
occasion
to thank you for your excellent work, and to thank also the other developers and
volunteers of the community. Shorewall is a very valuable project.

Elio


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