-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I'm finding that just a simple matter of my ppp session going down and > then back up again is messing up the delicate balance (no pun intended) > of route rules and tables that shorewall sets up to achieve > track/balance/policy routing. If I simply do a "shorewall[-lite] > restore" things return to normal. > > I'm not quite sure what's happening yet but it's probably got to do with > having both a DHCP Internet connection and PPPoE connection and having > them stomping on each other's default routes (even though I have set > removed the replacedefaultroute option from the ppp configuration), but > it makes me wonder if it wouldn't be useful to separate out the code > from shorewall[-lite] that restores the routing configuration so that > one can call that without having to reload the whole firewall > configuration.
I've always believed that Linux needs a good routing configuration package. I put the routing/multi-ISP in Shorewall because I have neither the time nor the energy to support two totally different packages. But I think that there is an opportunity there to make a significant contribution. - -Tom - -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJ6ujO/MAbZfjDLIRAoG9AKCo7JCaHHcxo/HG1smExfyJo5X4gQCfSdCN RcdMIg0zcZCpNatsk90jSW8= =dZj7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Shorewall-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users
