Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I'm just starting to experiment with multi-isp configuration and at the
> part of the doc (http://www.shorewall.net/MultiISP.html) that specifies:
> 
>         Regardless of whether you have masqueraded hosts or not, YOU
>         MUST ADD THESE TWO ENTRIES TO /etc/shorewall/masq:
>         
>         #INTERFACE       SUBNET            ADDRESS
>         eth0             130.252.99.27     206.124.146.176
>         eth1             206.124.146.176   130.252.99.27
> 
> If this is a MUST requirement for all multi-isp set ups, then can
> shorewall not figure this out for itself and install it without the user
> having to specify it?

Not really.

a) Shorewall couldn't determine where to put them in the masq file and the
file is order-sensitive.

b) Shorewall could redundantly add them, not realizing that the same traffic
 is adequately covered by other masq rules such as:

        eth0    0.0.0.0/0       206.124.146.177 #The different ADDRESS is
                                                #intentional

-Tom
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