On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 05:42 +0000, Chaitanya Shastri wrote:

>   We have been using Shoreline Firewall for many years now for our
> firm. The older version of shorewall does not support multiple ISP
> providers at the same time. For that reason, I am trying to configure
> Shorewall version 4.4.22 in our environment.
> We have two providers: A and B. I have three interfaces on my test
> machine: eth0: that is for LAN, eth1: for provider A and eth2: for
> provider B. 
> I have given seperate names to both the providers: inet1 to provider A
> and inet2 to provider B. And lnet is my local LAN.
> Provider A is somewhat untrustable. Sometimes, the connection gets
> lost. We have some RDP users who work on remote client side. They face
> connection problems.
> What I want to do is, route all the traffic of those RDP users via
> provider B and normal LAN users should use provider A for all there
> work.
> In short, I want some users to route through provider B and rest of
> others through provider A.
>  
> Now I have read the shorewall docs i.e. MultiISP configuration:
> http://shorewall.net/MultiISP.html.
> I have created a single rules file for that purpose. I have written
> appropriate rules for the above purpose.
> But when I test both the providers at same time, problem starts.
> Initially, provider B works, i.e. RDP users can connect to remote
> using provider B. and local users are unable to browse the internet.
> When I restart eth1 interface, then provider A works. But now RDP
> users are unable to connect.
> Are the interfaces overriding each other? Or am I missing something?
> I have RDP rule in the rules file as follows:
>  
>  ACCEPT lnet:192.168.5.4 inet2:xx.xx.xx.xx tcp 9690

Please forward the output of 'shorewall dump' collected as described at
http://www.shorewall.net/support.htm#Guidelines. It is impossible to
analyze Multi-ISP problems with only a brief description of the failure.

-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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