On Mon, 2013-04-15 at 11:04 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 04/15/2013 10:47 AM, Louis Lagendijk wrote:
> > On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 07:05 -0700, Tom Eastep wrote:
> >> On 4/12/13 2:22 PM, "Louis Lagendijk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> hello Tom,
> >>> After playing with shorewall-init a bit more, I have some more issues:
> >>>
> >>> 1) shorewall6: accept_ra does not get restored when the network is
> >>> restarted. A shorewall restart fixes that. I would have expected
> >>> ifup-local to perform the same settings as a shorewall restart does. Am
> >>> I missing something?
> >>> I hve traced the problem to interface_is_usable() in the firewall script:
> >>> it uses find_first_interface_address_if_any() that returns no address
> >>> assigned yet as it needs a router advertisement to do so. All
> >>> interfaces on my machine have that problem as I am using the wide
> >>> dhcpv6 client to retrieve a prefix delegation from the modem on the
> >>> interface that has accept_ra set. Would it be possible to remove
> >>> the test for the interface address?
> >>
> >> That same code gets executed during start/restart. Look at the function
> >> detect_configuration() in the generated firewall script; that gets called
> >> for start/restart and for enable. So I don't believe that is the root
> >> cause of your problem.
> > 
> > Thanks for the pointer Tom. What happens at a shorewall start (for
> > firewall start) is that define_firewall gets called that sets the
> > forwarding and accept_ra unconditionally. Function define_firewall() get
> > called at an "up" event ONLY when the firewall was not started before
> > (from updown() ).  In case of an "up" event when the firewall is
> > started, we then check for a non-link local address being defined (which
> > is not the case) and we skip the setting of the forward and accept_ra
> > proc/sys variables.... I am not sure what to suggest, but there is some
> > inconsistency here that does cause forwarding and accept_ra not to be
> > set in case of an "up" event (if the firewall is not started before) and
> > just (re)starting the firewall.
> 
> Are you using entries in /etc/shorewall6/providers or are you just
> defining these interfaces to be 'optional' in /etc/shorewall6/interfaces?
> 
I am using /etc/shorewall/interfaces, as I have only one provider: my
ISP via my VDSL modem that does prefix delegation and route
advertizements.
What I have is a faily simple setup

Thanks for your (as usally) amzaingly fast response. 
Kind regards, Louis


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