On 05/11/2012 11:52 AM, John McMonagle wrote:
> On Thursday, May 10, 2012 02:36:56 pm Tom Eastep wrote:
>> On 05/10/2012 12:09 PM, John McMonagle wrote:
>>> I upgraded our 2 sites with 2 isps to shorewall 4.5.2.4.
>>>
>>> I'm  going to try lsm.
>>>
>>> If the isp is static do I still need to set as optional in the interfaces
>>> file?
>>
>> Sure -- just because it has a static IP address doesn't mean that it's
>> going to be usable 100% of the time.
>>
>>> If rules are set to force traffic to a specific provider and that
>>> provider is down, will that traffic go to another provider?
>>
>> Existing connections out of the down provider will usually die. New
>> connections will be sent through the remaining provider.
>>
>> -Tom
> Thanks Tom
>
> I had short time yesterday to test.
> Attached is tar of /etc/shorewall and /etc/lsm
>
> Showed some signs of life :-)
>
> I expected issues so put the new stuff in /etc/shorewall/lsm
> started as shorewall /etc/shorewall/lsm
>
> I pulled ethernet  to cable modem  TImeWarner eth2 provider ISP2.
> Ran
> watch ip route show table balance
> and
> watch  cat  /var/lib/shorewall/eth2.status
> in windows
>
> On pulling:
> balance table changed  and other ISP2 routes went away.
> eth2.status did not change.
> Got down email from lsm.
>
> On  plugging back in:
> routing tables did not change.
> eth2.status did not change.
> Got up email from lsm.
>
> Obviously missed something :-(
>
> Do you see anything or have suggestions on how to debug?
>

- Set STARTUP_LOG=/var/log/shorewall-init.log
- Set LOG_VERBOSITY=1

Look at the log while testing to see what is going on.

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
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