On 11/29/2015 10:00 AM, Jeff Sim wrote:
> Tom (and all),
>
> I can’t believe the answer was staring me right in the face this whole time.
>
> After you had pointed out the conntrack issue, I thought about it more and 
> decided to poke around /var/log/messages and see if conntrack is being 
> loaded. One curious entry I saw was:
>
> Nov 27 09:35:51 belle kernel: [    5.251644] Disabling conntracks and NAT for 
> ve0
>
> That got me thinking about what OpenVZ might’ve done to the system (as my 
> other working server isn’t running OpenVZ, but KVM). So I looked at 
> /etc/modprobe.d/ and noticed a openvz.conf with the following line in it:
>
> options nf_conntrack ip_conntrack_disable_ve0=1
>
>>From what I understand about OpenVZ, ve0 (or CT0) is the host node itself. So 
>>that line is basically disabling NAT and conntrack for the host node. I’m not 
>>sure what the logic is behind that, but after commenting out that line and 
>>rebooting the system, conntrack works again and Shorewall acts normally again.
>
> Hope this helps anyone else who might run into this issue in future.
>

Glad you got it sorted.

-Tom
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