Tom Eastep wrote:
> Not true! The loopback interface is used for ANY packet sent from the
> host to itself.
That's a fair comment. However, in my case one address is "local", the 
other one is remove - that will never reach its destination and should 
have never been routed through the loopback, or am I missing something?

Here is one example of what I get (all "o.*" properties are for the 
original connection for which the icmp message was issued; "<eth0>" is 
my external-facing IP on eth0, "<remote_IP_eth1_subnet>" is remote 
internal IP which has the same subnet as eth1, "<external_IP>" is a 
remote host):

timestamp=2013/10/09-00:04:57,raw.pktlen=576,raw.pktcount=1,oob.prefix=Shorewall:fw2local:DROP:,oob.time.sec=1381273497,oob.time.usec=72127,oob.mark=0,oob.ifindex_out=1,oob.hook=3,oob.family=2,oob.protocol=0,raw.label=0,ip.saddr=<eth0>,ip.daddr=<remote_IP_eth1_subnet>,ip.protocol=1,ip.tos=192,ip.ttl=64,ip.totlen=576,ip.ihl=5,ip.csum=31876,ip.id=53893,ip.fragoff=0,icmp.type=3,icmp.code=1,icmp.csum=30221,oob.protocol=0,o.ip.saddr=<remote_IP_eth1_subnet>,o.ip.daddr=<external_IP>,o.ip.protocol=6,o.ip.tos=0,o.ip.ttl=63,o.ip.totlen=638,o.ip.ihl=5,o.ip.csum=15844,o.ip.id=42550,o.ip.fragoff=16384,o.tcp.sport=38327,o.tcp.dport=443,o.tcp.seq=3400886979,o.tcp.ackseq=4068520201,o.tcp.window=166,o.tcp.offset=0,o.tcp.reserved=0,o.tcp.urg=0,o.tcp.ack=1,o.tcp.psh=1,o.tcp.rst=0,o.tcp.syn=0,o.tcp.fin=0,o.tcp.res1=0,o.tcp.res2=0,o.tcp.csum=26701,oob.in=,oob.out=lo,ip.saddr.str=<eth0>,ip.daddr.str=<remote_IP_eth1_subnet>,oob.protocol=0

You will notice that the output interface is the loopback and the zone 
is fw2local, even though the destination address has nothing whatsoever 
to do with the "local" zone or 127.0.0.0/8.



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