-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I'm finding that just a simple matter of my ppp session going down and
> then back up again is messing up the delicate balance (no pun intended)
> of route rules and tables that shorewall sets up to achieve
> track/balance/policy routing.  If I simply do a "shorewall[-lite]
> restore" things return to normal.
> 
> I'm not quite sure what's happening yet but it's probably got to do with
> having both a DHCP Internet connection and PPPoE connection and having
> them stomping on each other's default routes (even though I have set
> removed the replacedefaultroute option from the ppp configuration), but
> it makes me wonder if it wouldn't be useful to separate out the code
> from shorewall[-lite] that restores the routing configuration so that
> one can call that without having to reload the whole firewall
> configuration.

I've always believed that Linux needs a good routing configuration
package. I put the routing/multi-ISP in Shorewall because I have neither
the time nor the energy to support two totally different packages. But I
think that there is an opportunity there to make a significant contribution.

- -Tom
- --
Tom Eastep    \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool
Shoreline,     \ http://shorewall.net
Washington USA  \ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP Public Key   \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org

iD8DBQFGJ6ujO/MAbZfjDLIRAoG9AKCo7JCaHHcxo/HG1smExfyJo5X4gQCfSdCN
RcdMIg0zcZCpNatsk90jSW8=
=dZj7
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express
Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take
control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now.
http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/
_______________________________________________
Shorewall-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users

Reply via email to