On Jul 26, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Das wrote:
> Sorry what? ---> Unbelievable -- Shorewall dump output embedded in an
> HTML/RTF email message.
>
> You told me in the last email to post the entire dump, I assumed that meant
> to just paste it into the email?
That is covered in my response to Peter Easthope's post.
>
> a) The tunnel was established before Shorewall started.
>
> I put Shorewall into a slackware package that has /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall and
> rc.shorewall so shorewall starts up when my system boots and is always
> running from the beginning.
Yep -- and I suspect that someone at Slackware finally came to their senses and
invoke that script *before* starting OpenVPN.
>
> b) Something is *really* wrong with Netfilter on this system.
>
> Like any distro, if someone hasn't touched anything, then what could be wrong
> and how could there be something wrong? I thought netfilter on all distros
> works out the box…
All distros are not the same.
>
> As I mentioned before, this works also on Arch the same way...
>
> I have Slack on a backup image, it only takes me 5mins to install it and
> everything back up and running, so it's not a problem and I'm more then
> willing to install any distro of your choice that you know out the box is
> going to work and not have any problems with netfilter so that we can rule
> that out, because I don't believe it's this...
… Miles of quoted stuff deleted….
It is not my responsibility to police the order in which all distributions
(including Arch and Slackware) start services at boot. If you have a problem
with that order, I can't change it -- only the distro can.
-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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