On 2/16/2015 2:45 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Da: Tom Eastep [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Inviato: lunedì 16 febbraio 2015 19:00
>>
>> On 2/15/2015 3:27 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>> Hallo,
>>>
>>> I'm updating some shorewall firewalls from CentOS6 to CentOS7. They
>>> have multiple internet providers.
>>> With CentOS6 kernel, routes were cached, and the same target was
>>> always reached via the same internet provider and the same IP. In
>>> linux-3.6, routing cache was removed, and I'm facing problems in
>>> CentOS7 accessing services which track where a client is coming from.
>>> The routing cache solution was sub-optimal, since all the sources were
>>> going to use the same provider to access the same host, but it did
>>> work. I worked around the problem by statically defining which
>>> provider to use to access the problematic services, changing the
>>> provider when needed (see LSM 0.178 and 0.179). But again this solution
> is
>> not optimal.
>>> So, is it possible in Shorewall to make sure that the same triplet
>>> (source ip, dest ip, dest port) will always go with the same provider?
>>>
>>
>> Have you looked at the SAME action in the mangle/tcrules file?
> 
> Unfortunately no; I'll do it now.
> But I fear 300 seconds timeout can be too low. Take for example an
> application like a webmail: one can easily return to it after an hour or so,
> and it could be annoying if it requires a new authentication almost every
> time. I think it should not be much difficult to add an argument to SAME
> representing the timeout, if I find it is really needed.
> 
> Anyway, it could be nice to have the ability to assign addresses/ports to
> ipsets in mangle, like we do to mark packets (low priority, kind feature
> request).

Both features will be in 4.6.7 Beta 1.

-Tom
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