On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 06:42:59AM -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> Laurent and I have been exchanging emails regarding this problem for 
> several days. While the root cause of the issue is not fully understood, 
> I have been able to create a simple Shorewall patch that works around 
> the issue. The patch unconditionally restores the connection mark to the 
> packet mark early in the mangle PREROUTING and OUTPUT chains. 
> Previously, the connection mark was restored only if it was non-zero.
> 
> Laurent is running a 3.5.0 kernel; it is unknown whether the issue 
> exists when running earlier kernels but I suspect not.
> 
> The patch will be included in all future Shorewall releases.

I'd like to thank you Tom for his great help while debugging this
strange issue I've been facing.

Laurent


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