Re: [Shorewall-users] time-of-day routing

2016-02-03 Thread James Andrewartha
On 03/02/16 02:33, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > I have two providers, one is fast (with a bigger usage cap), one is > slow (with a smaller usage cap) so I generally default route through > the fast one as the dedicated primary route with the slow sitting back > as secondary (i.e. for just when the

Re: [Shorewall-users] time-of-day routing

2016-02-03 Thread Brian J. Murrell
On Wed, 2016-02-03 at 16:02 +0800, James Andrewartha wrote: >  > You could have time-based rules in the mangle file to select the > default > provider. Oh.  Now that is an interesting solution.  I had not considered that one.  I was focused on raw routing, not policy routing with marks. I will

Re: [Shorewall-users] time-of-day routing

2016-02-02 Thread Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
You could easily maintain a separate shorewall configuration to apply during your window, and copy them into the shorewall (using a cron task) at the appointed hour and restart shorewall, then a second one to restore your original rules at 7:59AM. I don't know of a better way to do this. -

[Shorewall-users] time-of-day routing

2016-02-02 Thread Brian J. Murrell
I have two providers, one is fast (with a bigger usage cap), one is slow (with a smaller usage cap) so I generally default route through the fast one as the dedicated primary route with the slow sitting back as secondary (i.e. for just when the first one goes down, not round- robin). But the slow