I know that Tom has expressed before his reluctance for Shorewall to get deeper into the routing management game, but the reality is that complex routing (i.e. shaping, etc.) and firewalling go hand-in-hand, hence the routing control that is already in Shorewall.
I wonder how well the possibility of Shorewall supplying a HA routing monitor would be received. I don't know of any other packages out there supplying such a thing and it's almost too small a task to support a whole project for. For the record by routing monitor I mean the basic "ping the other end of the link and adjust routing when it's not there" type of thing that helps keep dead connections out of the (default) routing decisions puts the connections back when it comes back. It's not a terribly difficult thing to do, an a small script can do it, indeed, but it would just be so much nicer to have such a thing packaged as a part of a project rather than having everyone cobble up their own, and Shorewall already has the MultiISP (i.e. providers) plumbing to support a generic dead-gateway-detection monitor. Thots? b.
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