Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 11:54:45AM -0800, Tom Eastep wrote:
>> Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>>
>>> I think I already posted a tcpdump in this thread that showed the actual
>>> packets that were being considered martians and at tcpdump time, there
>>> were being addressed to the correct address.  In this message:
>>>
>>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.shorewall/15379
>> I see. So it would seem that martian filtering is occurring *after* the
>> destination address is getting rewritten. That seems bogus.
> 
> It runs as part of the routing decision, wherever that fits into the
> process.

That's consistent with what we're seeing.

The best way to work around this is to configure applications on the
firewall so that they use the local IP address that corresponds to the
interface that you want them to use. That approach is mentioned on the
Multi-ISP page in the section entitles "Applications running on the
Firewall"

-Tom
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