On Nov 21, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Thibault Hild wrote:

> Thank you Tom for the hint.
> I will try the 'routefilter' option this evening.
> 
> By the way, why is this option not needed in revision 4.4.15 ?

To avoid connection tracking attacks from IP spoofing, Shorewall now prevents 
hairpinning (routing a packet out of the same interface it entered on) when 
neither 'routeback' nor 'routefilter' is specified.

-Tom 

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