On 10/03/2018 07:03 AM, Vieri Di Paola via Shorewall-users wrote:
>  On Tuesday, October 2, 2018, 4:46:34 PM GMT+2, Tom Eastep 
> <teas...@shorewall.net> wrote: 
>>
>> As I pointed out in my response to your later post, those rules won't
>> make any difference even if correct code was generated. What I suspect
>> is that you are running into a PMTU problem that will be corrected if
>> you set CLAMPMSS=Yes in shorewall.conf. You have switched from using
>> Ethernet interfaces to your ISPs to PPPoE interfaces which have an MTU
>> of 1492 versus 1500 for Ethernet.
> 
> I thought it could be due to PMTU, so I followed your suggestion and set 
> CLAMPMSS=Yes.
> 
> After restarting shorewall the following command would get only 1 packet 
> reply (the first one). Everything else would be left unanswered.
> ping -n -I $IF_ISP1 8.8.8.8
> (run on the shorewall gateway)
> 
> So I also tried to set CLAMPMSS=4012 or whichever value I had in the ppp 
> links.
> I would still get the same ping results.
> 
> Also, if I did a "shorewall clear" the same ping tests would succeed.
> 
> I did a shorewall dump during these tests. Unfortunately, I got cut off later 
> so I can't access the dump file just yet. I'll send it asap.
> 
> I finally tried to revert to my eth-only setup, moved back to CLAMPMSS=No. 
> However, I'd still get the same erroneous ping results even after rebooting 
> the shorewall gateway. I still have to find out how to undo what CLAMPMSS=Yes 
> did.
> 

CLAMPMSS=Yes simply adds a rule in the mangle FORWARD chain, so
reloading with a configuration that doesn't specify CLAMPMSS will remove
everything it did.

-Tom
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