[Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Lachanas
Hi all, I Wish to route all fw traffic to ISP1 But the rule gets ignored In my tcrules file I have only one rule. 0x100 $FW - with high route marks . Then after executing a ping from fw->net I found out that successive pings get routed interchanged to both isp providers. my provi

[Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-10 Thread Harry Lachanas
OK I've just included a shorewall dump in the mail The update on this is that ... Indeed the ping gets routed to ISP1 I also can see the reply comming in ( tcpdump ) however ping or fping lies there dead Mean while #ip route get IP_ADDRESS shows the particular address I was pinging as it w

Re: [Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-10 Thread Shorewall Geek
Harry Lachanas wrote: > however when I add a rule from Loc->net and mark packets to go through a > particular provider it also looked like both ISPs where used. > > Then I replaced the balance option with loose and it the fw->net traffic > got routed through the ISP1 but I am not sure that this

Re: [Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-10 Thread Shorewall Geek
Harry Lachanas wrote: > Indeed the ping gets routed to ISP1 > I also can see the reply comming in ( tcpdump ) > however ping or fping lies there dead Probably being dropped as martians -- but you'll never know it since you haven't enabled martian logging. > > I Wish to route all fw traffic

Re: [Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-11 Thread Harry Lachanas
> > The only thing that 'loose' does is that it causes one routing rule per > external interface to be omitted (the rule that allows applications to > bind to a particular interface's address to force the application use > that interface). Specifying 'loose' is an alternative to the technique > of

Re: [Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-11 Thread Shorewall Geek
Harry Lachanas wrote: >> The only thing that 'loose' does is that it causes one routing rule per >> external interface to be omitted (the rule that allows applications to >> bind to a particular interface's address to force the application use >> that interface). Specifying 'loose' is an alternativ

Re: [Shorewall-users] MARK ROUTES in FW

2008-12-11 Thread Prasanna Krishnamoorthy
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:47 AM, Harry Lachanas wrote: > > If say openvpn is running on firewall should by started with > a) --locall 0 > or > b) --local xx.xx.xx.xx > ??? > And if you're running with multiple interfaces, you better be running OpenVPN 2.1RC with --multihome. Otherwise things ge