On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 21:58:01 +0100 KP Kirchdoerfer <kap...@bering-uclibc.de> wrote:
> > 1) The dsl are disconnected once a day so the remote gateway for ppp0 > and ppp1 changes after a unkown time (24hrs+x). This causes a > sluggish connection from the loc zone to the internet. I do believe > this is cause the route cache is not really refreshed after shorewall > restart. A network restart with /etc/init.d/networking restart cures > that symptoms though. You can see what the compiled script does -- after 'shorewall restart', the script is in /var/lib/shorewall/.restart. > > Will it help to run shorewall stop; ip route flush cache; shorewall > start instead of of just restart shorewall? Any other ideas? I think you will find that Shorewall is already executing 'ip route flush cache'. > > 2) Due to the change if the pppx interfaces the origin ip-address of > the smtp server changes as well, this may end up in false reverse > lookups for the MX I'm afraid. > I've read about route_rules to route smtp through a given provider. > I'd like to route through a specific gateway adress, which isn't > bound to a provider since the providers are both dynamic dsl/ppp > lines.... Trying to run an SMTP server on a host with a dynamic IP address sounds dicey at best. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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