On Jan 9, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Nick wrote: > > Originally I had shorewall set to detect the gateway. This setup was > crashing randomly when pppoe restarted the connection with this kind of > error: > ERROR: Command "ip -4 route replace default scope global table 254 > nexthop via 203.33.255.161 dev eth1 weight 1 nexthop via 203.33.255.161 > dev eth2 weight 1" Failed
Did you see the word 'detect' in my post? > > I can reproduce the error by setting the gateways to the same address. Which is a configuration that will never work. Neither Shorewall nor the Linux IP stack will handle that. > > I don’t have the ability to control the gateway assigned to me on the PPPOE > session and occasionally my ISP will assign me the same gateway via DHCP over > the PPPOE connection > > Since this setup is reasonably difficult to reproduce I have demonstrated an > easy method to reproduce the issue by editing the providers file. > > I am simply doing this to assist in improving shorewall as I do have a work > around. :) > Considerable time and effort has gone into researching this issue with > nothing found on the internet to suggest that Shorewall is incapable of > operating two ISP if they happen to use the same gateway. I repeat: Place the single character '-' in the GATEWAY column for PPOE providers. I am convinced that you will not see any problems with the modems in bridging mode. -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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