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<section id="LinkMonitor">
<title>Gateway Monitoring and Failover</title>
<para>There are a couple of options available for monitoring the status
of provider links and taking action when a failure occurs. Both of these
options assume that each provider has a unique nexthop gateway; if two
or more providers use the same gateway router then neither option is
suitable.</para>
<para>There is an option (LSM) available for monitoring the status of
provider links and taking action when a failure occurs. LSM assumes that
each provider has a unique nexthop gateway.</para>
<para>You specify the <option>optional</option> option in
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
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net eth0 detect <emphasis role="bold">optional</emphasis>
net eth1 detect <emphasis role="bold">optional</emphasis></programlisting>
<section id="swping">
<title>SWPING</title>
<para>Shorewall includes a sample monitoring script
<filename>swping</filename>. The <filename>swping</filename> file is
available in the main directory contained in the Shorewall-common
tarball and is included in the Shorewall-common documentation
directory in the Shorewall-common RPM. The script is inspired by
Angsuman Chakraborty's <ulink
url="http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/how-to-load-balancing-failover-with-dual-multi-wan-adsl-cable-connections-on-linux/">gwping</ulink>
script.</para>
<important>
<para>These samples are offered <emphasis>as is</emphasis> — they
work for me but I don't make any claim that they will work for
anyone else. But if you have a need for automated link monitoring,
they offer you a place to start.</para>
</important>
<important>
<para>If you have installed Shorewall-init, you should disable its
ifup/ifdown/NetworkManager integration (set IFUPDOWN=0 in the <ulink
url="Manpages/shorewall-init.html">Shorewall-init configuration
file</ulink>).</para>
</important>
<para>The script should be copied to a directory on root's PATH such
as <filename>/usr/local/sbin/</filename>.</para>
<para>The script works by sending pings to <emphasis>target</emphasis>
IP addresses through each external interface. These targets must not
depend on any routes other than those that are present in the main
routing table. That ensures that a route is available to the target
even when the target's interface is not working and Shorewall has
omitted it from the routing configuration. An interface is assumed to
be <firstterm>up</firstterm> when a specified number (UP_COUNT) of
consecutive ping operations succeed. Similarly, an interface is
assumed to be <firstterm>down</firstterm> when a specified number
(DOWN_COUNT) of consecutive ping operations fail. You can specify the
interval between pings (PING_INTERVAL).</para>
<para>The script monitors two interfaces but it is a trivial exercise
to extend it to more than two. At the top are a number of variables to
set:</para>
<programlisting>#
# IP family -- 4 or 6
#
FAMILY=4
#
# The commands to run when the status of a line changes. Multiple commands may be specified
# when separated by semicolons (";")
#
COMMAND=
...
#
# Interfaces to monitor -- you may use shell variables from your params file
#
IF1=eth0
IF2=eth1
#
# Sites to Ping. Must depend only on routes in the 'main' routing table. If not specified,
# the interface is assumed to be managed by dhcpcd and the script uses the gateway address
# from /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-${IFx}.info
#
TARGET1=
TARGET2=
#
# How often to ping
#
PING_INTERVAL=5
#
# Value for ping's -W option
#
PING_TIMEOUT=2
#
# This many successive pings must succeed for the interface to be marked up when it is down
#
UP_COUNT=5
#
# This many successive pings must fail for the interface to be marked down when it is up
#
DOWN_COUNT=2</programlisting>
<para>If you leave COMMAND empty, the script sets its value
automatically depending on whether Shorewall-lite is installed.</para>
<para>When the status of an interface changes:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>For each interface, a file is placed in ${VARDIR} (normally
/var/lib/shorewall) to record the status of the interface: either
0 (UP) or 1 (DOWN). The name of the file is
<filename><replaceable>interface</replaceable>.status</filename>
where <replaceable>interface</replaceable> is the interface (e.g.,
<filename>eth0.status</filename>).</para>
<important>
<para>Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.0, the generated script
automatically maintains this .status file.</para>
</important>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>A <command>shorewall -f restart</command> command is
executed (<command>shorewall-lite restart</command>, if
Shorewall-lite is installed).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>The contents of the main routing table are displayed.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>The .status files are intended to be used with the following
<filename>/etc/shorewall/isusable</filename> script.<programlisting>local status=0
[ -f ${VARDIR}/${1}.status ] &amp;&amp; status=$(cat ${VARDIR}/${1}.status)
return $status</programlisting></para>
<para>The above script is installed in <filename
class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename> in Shorewall releases
4.3.11 - 4.5.0. Beginning with Shorewall 4.5.1, it is no longer
installed in <filename class="directory">/etc/shorewall</filename>,
but may be copied there from <filename
class="directory">/usr/share/shorewall/configfiles</filename>.</para>
<para>Also included is a sample init script
(<filename>swping.init</filename>) to start the monitoring daemon.
Copy it to<filename> /etc/init.d/swping</filename> and use your
distribution's SysV init tools to cause it to be run at boot. It works
on <trademark>OpenSuSE</trademark> 11.0 -- YMMV. Modify the PROG and
STATEDIR variables as needed.</para>
<para>As an alternative to using the init script, you can add the
following to <filename>/etc/shorewall/started</filename>:</para>
<programlisting>if [ "$COMMAND" = start ]; then
killall -9 swping 2&gt; /dev/null #be sure that there are none left running
/usr/local/sbin/swping &amp;
fi</programlisting>
<para>and add this to
<filename>/etc/shorewall/stopped</filename>.</para>
<para><programlisting>if [ "$COMMAND" = stop -o "$COMMAND" = clear ]; then
killall -9 swping 2&gt; /dev/null
fi</programlisting></para>
<para>This simple script has a number of limitations:</para>
<orderedlist>
<listitem>
<para>It only works on IPv4 or IPv6 but not both at once. So if
you want to monitor both IPv4 and IPv6, you need to clone the
script are run two copies; one for IPv4 and one for IPv6.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>It can only detect the gateway for interfaces managed by
dhcpcd.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>It's method of determining whether an interface is up or
down is crude. You will normally specify the default gateway for
each provider as the sites to ping and being able to ping the
default gateway is not a surefire indication that the provider is
usable. The method of determining whether a site is up or down is
also crude.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Because of the crudeness of the algorithm, hysteresis may
occur.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>It is tricky to configure a system such that the system
works correctly when one of its providers is down unless you
largely don't care which interface is used.</para>
</listitem>
</orderedlist>
</section>
<section id="lsm">
<title>Link Status Monitor (LSM)</title>
<para><ulink url="http://lsm.foobar.fi/">Link Status Monitor</ulink>
was written by Mika Ilmaranta &lt;ilmis at nullnet.fi&gt; and performs
more sophisticated monitoring than the simple swping script described
in the preceding section.</para>
more sophisticated monitoring than the simple SWPING script that
preceded it.</para>
<important>
<para>If you have installed Shorewall-init, you should disable its