Again, thank you! On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 3:09 AM, Tom Eastep <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 12/16/2015 10:22 PM, Norman Henderson wrote: > > Hello friends, > > > > The multi-provider structure seems to work fine when it's really being > > used for links to multiple ISP's of relatively stable quality. It's > > problematic when the ISP's are unstable (I am in Africa) mostly because > > failures aren't directly detectable: usually there is a break, or a > > major slowdown somewhere upstream in the ISP's network. > > > > It has become very complicated because we also have several sites > > connected by links that aren't always reliable (OpenVPN tunnels over > > said unreliable ISP's; even our WiFi links go down sometimes). > > > > The cleanest solution seems to be to manually disable / enable providers > > as needed (or use a monitoring tool to do so). However the question: > > > > Is there a clean way to mark a provider so that it will NOT be enabled > > upon shorewall (re)start? I guess I could do it in an extension script > > but that is a bit of a hack. > > > > Input welcome! > > Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.3.1: > > - The 'disable' command stores a 1 in the interface's .status file. > - The .status file is ignored on 'enable' but not on 'start', > 'restart', 'restore' and 'refresh'. > > This means that a disabled interface can only be re-enabled using > the 'enable' command. > > -Tom > > > -- > Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who > Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like > Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car > http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Shorewall-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/shorewall-users >
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