Brian J. Murrell wrote:

> 
> It seems it's a bit of a perversion of providers, but would it be much
> of perversion?  Would it be as simple as pointing to the other gateway's
> internal address as the 2nd provider, as if it were the IP of the other
> provider?
>

Yes. You would also need to set the 'routeback' option on both routers'
internal interface.

Regardless of whether you use Shorewall providers, you probably want to
monitor the conntrack table usage. That is because your routing will be
asymmetric; both routers will be trying to track connections redirected from
one to the other. Note that only the destination router will have complete
conntrack entries since the redirecting router will only handle traffic in
the outbound direction.

You will also want to set
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_be_liberal and
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_tcp_loose to avoid tcp packets
being dropped as invalid by Netfilter connection tracking.

-Tom
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