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<articleinfo>
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<title>Shorewall and Multiple Internet Connections</title>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>Tom</firstname>
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<surname>Eastep</surname>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<pubdate><?dbtimestamp format="Y/m/d"?></pubdate>
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<copyright>
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<year>2005</year>
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<year>2006</year>
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<year>2007</year>
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<holder>Thomas M. Eastep</holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version
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1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with
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no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover, and with no Back-Cover
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Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
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<quote><ulink url="GnuCopyright.htm">GNU Free Documentation
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License</ulink></quote>.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</articleinfo>
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<warning>
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<para>Make sure you are<emphasis role="bold"> running a current,
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vendor-supported distribution</emphasis>, before attempting to perform
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this setup, older distributions do not meet the minimum requirements,and
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you will need to recompile iptables, kernel and other software on your
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system. If you don't follow this advice,<emphasis role="bold">we will
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<emphasis role="bold">not</emphasis> be able to help
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you</emphasis>.</para>
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</warning>
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<warning>
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<para>Reading just Shorewall documentation is probably not going to give
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you enough background to use this material. Shorewall may make iptables
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easy but the Shorewall team doesn't have the resources to be able to
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spoon-feed Linux policy routing to you (please remember that the user's
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manual for a tractor doesn't teach you to grow corn either). You will
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likely need to refer to the following additional information:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>The LARTC HOWTO: <ulink
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url="http://www.lartc.org">http://www.lartc.org</ulink></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Output of <command>man ip</command></para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Output of <command>ip route help</command> and <command>ip rule
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help</command></para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</warning>
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<section>
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<title>Multiple Internet Connection Support</title>
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<para>Beginning with Shorewall 2.3.2, limited support is included for
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multiple internet connections. Limitations of this support are as
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follows:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>It utilizes static routing configuration. As such, there is no
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provision for reacting to the failure of either of the uplinks.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>The routing changes are made and the route cache is purged when
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Shorewall is started <emphasis role="bold">and when Shorewall is
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restarted</emphasis> (unless you specify the "-n" option to
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<command>shorewall restart</command>). Ideally, restarting the packet
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filter should have no effect on routing.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Prior to Shorewall 3.4.0, the routes and route rules added by
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this support were not completely removed during <command>shorewall
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stop</command>, <command>shorewall clear</command> or
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<command>shorewall restart</command>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<section>
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<title>Overview</title>
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<para>Let's assume that a firewall is connected via two separate
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ethernet interfaces to two different ISPs as in the following
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diagram.</para>
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<graphic align="center" fileref="images/TwoISPs.png" valign="middle" />
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>eth0 connects to ISP1. The IP address of eth0 is
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206.124.146.176 and the ISP's gateway router has IP address
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206.124.146.254.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>eth1 connects to ISP 2. The IP address of eth1 is
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130.252.99.27 and the ISP's gateway router has IP address
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130.252.99.254.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>eth2 connects to the local LAN. Its IP configuration is not
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relevant to this discussion.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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<para>Each of these <firstterm>providers</firstterm> is described in an
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entry in the file <filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename>.</para>
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<para>Entries in <filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> can
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specify that outgoing connections are to be load-balanced between the
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two ISPs. Entries in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> can be
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used to direct particular outgoing connections to one ISP or the other.
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Use of <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> is not required for
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> to work, but you must
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select a unique MARK value for each provider so Shorewall can set up the
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correct marking rules for you.</para>
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<para>When you use the <emphasis role="bold">track</emphasis> option in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename>, connections from the
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internet are automatically routed back out of the correct interface and
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through the correct ISP gateway. This works whether the connection is
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handled by the firewall itself or if it is routed or port-forwarded to a
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system behind the firewall.</para>
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<para>Shorewall will set up the routing and will update the
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<filename>/etc/iproute2/rt_tables</filename> to include the table names
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and numbers of the tables that it adds.</para>
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<caution>
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<para>This feature uses <ulink url="traffic_shaping.htm">packet
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marking</ulink> to control the routing. As a consequence, there are
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some restrictions concerning entries in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Packet marking for traffic control purposes may not be done
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in the PREROUTING table for connections involving providers with
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'track' specified (see below).</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>You may not use the SAVE or RESTORE options.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>You may not use connection marking.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</caution>
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<para>The <filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> file can also be
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used in other routing scenarios. See the <ulink
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url="Shorewall_Squid_Usage.html">Squid documentation</ulink> for an
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example.</para>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>/etc/shorewall/providers File</title>
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<para>Entries in this file have the following columns. As in all
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Shorewall configuration files, enter "-" in a column if you don't want
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to enter any value.</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>NAME</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The provider name. Must begin with a letter and consist of
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letters and digits. The provider name becomes the name of the
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generated routing table for this provider.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>NUMBER</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A number between 1 and 252. This becomes the routing table
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number for the generated table for this provider.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>MARK</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A mark value used in your /etc/shorewall/tcrules file to
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direct packets to this provider. Shorewall will also mark
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connections that have seen input from this provider with this
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value and will restore the packet mark in the PREROUTING CHAIN.
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Mark values must be in the range 1-255.</para>
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<para>Beginning with Shorewall version 3.2.0 Beta 6, you may use
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may set HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</filename>. This allows
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you to:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Use connection marks for traffic shaping, provided that
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you assign those marks in the FORWARD chain.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Use mark values > 255 for provider marks in this
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column. These mark values must be a multiple of 256 in the
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range 256-65280 (hex equivalent 0x100 - 0xFF00 with the
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low-order 8 bits being zero).</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>DUPLICATE</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Gives the name or number of a routing table to duplicate.
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May be 'main' or the name or number of a previously declared
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provider. For most applications, you want to specify 'main'
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here.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>INTERFACE</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The name of the interface to the provider.</para>
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<caution>
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<para>The Shorewall implementation of Multi-ISP support assumes
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that each provider has its own interface.</para>
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</caution>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>GATEWAY</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The IP address of the provider's Gateway router.</para>
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<para>You can enter <emphasis role="bold">detect</emphasis> here
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and Shorewall will attempt to automatically determine the gateway
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IP address.</para>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Hint:</emphasis> <emphasis
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role="bold">"detect"</emphasis> is appropriate for use in cases
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where the interface named in the INTERFACE column is dynamically
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configured via DHCP etc.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>OPTIONS</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>A comma-separated list from the following:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>track</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>If specified, connections FROM this interface are to
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be tracked so that responses may be routed back out this
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same interface.</para>
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<para>You want to specify 'track' if internet hosts will be
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connecting to local servers through this provider. Any time
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that you specify 'track', you will also want to specify
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'balance' (see below).</para>
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<para>Use of this feature requires that your kernel and
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iptables support CONNMARK target and connmark match support.
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It does not require the ROUTE target extension.</para>
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<warning>
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<para>iptables 1.3.1 is broken with respect to CONNMARK
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and iptables-save/iptables-restore. This means that if you
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configure multiple ISPs, <command>shorewall
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restore</command> may fail. If it does, you may patch your
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iptables using the patch at <ulink
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url="http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/iptables/CONNMARK.diff">http://shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/contrib/iptables/CONNMARK.diff</ulink>.</para>
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</warning>
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<important>
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<para>If you are using
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> because you
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have multiple internet connections, we recommend that you
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specify 'track' even if you don't need it. It helps
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maintain long-term connections in which there are
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significant periods with no traffic.</para>
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</important>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>balance</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>The providers that have 'balance' specified will get
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outbound traffic load-balanced among them. Balancing will
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not be perfect, as it is route based, and routes are cached.
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This means that routes to often-used sites will always be
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over the same provider.</para>
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<para>By default, each provider is given the same weight (1)
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. You can change the weight of a given provider by following
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<emphasis>balance</emphasis> with "=" and the desired weight
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(e.g., balance=2). The weights reflect the relative
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bandwidth of the providers connections and should be small
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numbers since the kernel actually creates additional default
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routes for each weight increment.</para>
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<important>
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<para>If you are using
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> because you
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have multiple internet connections, we recommend that you
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specify 'balance' even if you don't need it. You can still
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use entries in <filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>
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to force all traffic to one provider or another.<note>
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<para>If you don't heed this advice then be prepared
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to read <ulink url="FAQ.htm#faq57">FAQ 57</ulink> and
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<ulink url="FAQ.htm#faq58">FAQ 58</ulink>.</para>
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</note></para>
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</important>
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<important>
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<para>If you specify 'balance' and still find that all
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traffic is going out through only one provider, you may
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need to install a kernel built with
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CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED=n. Several users have
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reported that this change has corrected similar
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problems.</para>
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<para>The SuSE 10.0 kernel is subject to this problem, and
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<ulink
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url="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=190908">
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a kernel oops may result in this circumstance.</ulink>
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SUSE 10.1 and SLES 10 have
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CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED=n set by default. The
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source of the problem seems to be <ulink
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url="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c00da01c5b35a%24b12b9860%241b00a8c0%40cruncher%3e">an
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incompatibility between the LARTC patches and
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CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED.</ulink></para>
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</important>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>loose</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Do not include routing rules that force traffic whose
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source IP is an address of the INTERFACE to be routed to
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this provider. Useful for defining providers that are to be
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used only when the appropriate packet mark is applied.
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Should not be specified together with <emphasis
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role="bold">balance</emphasis>.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>optional (added in Shorewall 3.2.2)</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Shorewall will determine of this interface is up and
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has a configured IPv4 address. If it is not, a warning is
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issued and this provider is not configured.</para>
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<note>
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<para>'optional' is designed to detect interface states
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that will cause <command>shorewall start</command> or
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<command>shorewall restart</command> to fail; just because
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an interface is in a state that Shorewall can [re]start
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without error doesn't mean that traffic can actually be
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sent through the interface.</para>
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</note>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>For those of you who are termnally confused between<emphasis
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role="bold"> track</emphasis> and <emphasis
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role="bold">balance</emphasis>:</para>
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">track</emphasis> governs incoming
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connections.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis> governs
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outgoing connections.</para>
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</listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>COPY</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>When you specify an existing table in the DUPLICATE column,
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Shorewall copies all routes through the interface specified in the
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INTERFACE column plus the interfaces listed in this column. At a
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minumum, you should list all interfaces on your firewall in this
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column except those internet interfaces specified in the INTERFACE
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column of entries in this file.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</section>
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<section>
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<title>What an entry in the Providers File Does</title>
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<para>Adding another entry in the providers file simply creates an
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alternate routing table for you. In addition:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Unless <emphasis role="bold">loose</emphasis> is specified, an
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ip rule is generated for each IP address on the INTERFACE that
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routes traffic from that address through the associated routing
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table.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you specify <emphasis role="bold">track</emphasis>, then
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connections which have had at least one packet arrive on the
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interface listed in the INTERFACE column have their connection mark
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set to the value in the MARK column. In the PREROUTING chain,
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packets with a connection mark have their packet mark set to the
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value of the associated connection mark; packets marked in this way
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bypass any prerouting rules that you create in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename>. This ensures that
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packets associated with connections from outside are always routed
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out of the correct interface.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>If you specify <emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis>, then
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Shorewall will replace the 'default' route with weight 100 in the
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'main' routing table with a load-balancing route among those
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gateways where <emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis> was
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specified. So if you configure default routes, be sure that their
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weight is less than 100 or the route added by Shorewall will not be
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used.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>That's <emphasis role="bold">all</emphasis> that these entries do.
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You still have to follow the principle stated in the <ulink
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url="Shorewall_and_Routing.html">Shorewall Routing
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documentation</ulink>:</para>
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<orderedlist>
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<listitem>
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<para>Routing determines where packets are to be sent.</para>
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</listitem>
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<listitem>
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<para>Once routing determines where the packet is to go, the
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firewall (Shorewall) determines if the packet is allowed to go
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there.</para>
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</listitem>
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</orderedlist>
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<para>The bottom line is that if you want traffic to go out through a
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particular provider then you <emphasis>must </emphasis>mark that traffic
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with the provider's MARK value in
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<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> and you must do that marking
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|
in the PREROUTING chain; or, you must provide the appropriate rules in
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|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/route_rules</filename>.</para>
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|
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<warning id="Undo">
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|
<para>If you are running a Shorewall version prior to 3.4.0, entries
|
|
in <filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> permanently alter
|
|
your firewall/gateway's routing; that is, the effect of these changes
|
|
is not reversed by <command>shorewall stop</command> or
|
|
<command>shorewall clear</command>. To restore routing to its original
|
|
state, you may have to restart your network. This can usually be done
|
|
by <command>/etc/init.d/network restart</command> or
|
|
<command>/etc/init.d/networking restart</command>. Check your
|
|
distribution's networking documentation.</para>
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|
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<para>Here are some additional things to consider:</para>
|
|
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|
<itemizedlist>
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|
<listitem>
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|
<para>You can mitigate the effect of the Shorewall-generated
|
|
changes to your routing table by specifying a
|
|
<emphasis>metric</emphasis> for each default route that you
|
|
configure. Shorewall will generate a load-balancing default route
|
|
(assuming that <emphasis role="bold">balance</emphasis> has been
|
|
specified for some of the providers) that does not include a
|
|
metric and that will therefore not replace any existing route that
|
|
has a non-zero metric.</para>
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|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
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|
<para>The <command>-n</command> option to <command>shorewall
|
|
restart</command> and <command>shorewall restore</command> can be
|
|
used to prevent the command from changing your routing.</para>
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|
</listitem>
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|
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<listitem>
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<para>The <filename>/etc/shorewall/stopped</filename> file can
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|
also be used to restore routing when you stop Shorewall. With your
|
|
firewall in its normal (single-table) routing configuration, you
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|
can capture the contents as follows:</para>
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|
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<programlisting>ip route ls > routes</programlisting>
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|
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<para>Here's what the <filename>routes</filename> file looked like
|
|
after I did that on my firewall:</para>
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<programlisting>192.168.1.1 dev eth3 scope link
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206.124.146.177 dev eth1 scope link
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192.168.2.2 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.1
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192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.2.2 dev tun0
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192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254
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206.124.146.0/24 dev eth3 proto kernel scope link src 206.124.146.176
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169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link
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127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
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|
default via 206.124.146.254 dev eth3</programlisting>
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|
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<para>Now edit the file as shown below:</para>
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|
<programlisting><command>ip route flush table main
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|
ip route add</command> 192.168.1.1 dev eth3 scope link
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<command>ip route add </command>206.124.146.177 dev eth1 scope link
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<command>ip route add </command>192.168.2.2 dev tun0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.2.1
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<command>ip route add </command>192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.2.2 dev tun0
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<command>ip route add </command>192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.254
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<command>ip route add </command>206.124.146.0/24 dev eth3 proto kernel scope link src 206.124.146.176
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<command>ip route add </command>169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link
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<command>ip route add </command>127.0.0.0/8 dev lo scope link
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<command>ip route add </command>default via 206.124.146.254 dev eth3
|
|
<command>ip route flush cache</command></programlisting>
|
|
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|
<para>Now paste the contents of that file into
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/stopped</filename>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>You might also want to consider adding the following to the
|
|
file:</para>
|
|
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|
<programlisting><command>ip rule ls</command> | while read priority rule; do
|
|
case ${priority%:} in
|
|
0|3276[67])
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|
;;
|
|
*)
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|
ip rule del $rule
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;;
|
|
esac
|
|
done</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>That code will delete all but the default routing
|
|
rules.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
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|
<title>What an entry in the Providers File Does NOT Do</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Given that Shorewall is simply a tool to configure Netfilter and
|
|
does not run continuously in your system, entries in the providers file
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">do not provide any automatic failover in the event
|
|
of failure of one of your Internet connections</emphasis>.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="Martians">
|
|
<title>Martians</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>One problem that often arises with Multi-ISP configuration is
|
|
'Martians'. If your internet interfaces are configured with the
|
|
<emphasis role="bold">routefilter</emphasis> option in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename> (remember that if you set
|
|
that option, you should also select <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">logmartians</emphasis>), then things may not work correctly
|
|
and you will see messages like this:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>Feb 9 17:23:45 gw.ilinx kernel: martian source 206.124.146.176 from 64.86.88.116, on dev eth1
|
|
Feb 9 17:23:45 gw.ilinx kernel: ll header: 00:a0:24:2a:1f:72:00:13:5f:07:97:05:08:00</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>The above message is somewhat awkwardly phrased. The source IP in
|
|
this incoming packet was 64.86.88.116 and the destination IP address is
|
|
206.124.146.176. Another gotcha is that the incoming packet has already
|
|
had the destination IP address changed for DNAT or because the original
|
|
outgoing connection was altered by an entry in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename> (SNAT or Masquerade). So the
|
|
destination IP address (206.124.146.176) may not have been the
|
|
destination IP address in the packet as it was initially
|
|
received.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>There a couple of common causes for these problems:</para>
|
|
|
|
<orderedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>You have connected both of your external interfaces to the
|
|
same hub/switch. Connecting multiple firewall interfaces to a common
|
|
hub or switch is always a bad idea that will result in
|
|
hard-to-diagnose problems.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>You are specifying both the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">loose</emphasis> and <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">balance</emphasis> options on your provider(s). This
|
|
causes individual connections to ping-pong back and forth between
|
|
the interfaces which is guaranteed to cause problems.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>You are redirecting traffic from the local system out of one
|
|
interface or the other using packet marking in your
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> file. A better approach
|
|
is to configure the application to use the appropriate local IP
|
|
address (the IP address of the interface that you want the
|
|
application to use). See <link linkend="Local">below</link>.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</orderedlist>
|
|
|
|
<para>If all else fails, remove the <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">routefilter</emphasis> option from your external interfaces.
|
|
If you do this, you may wish to add rules to log and drop packets from
|
|
the Internet that have source addresses in your local networks. For
|
|
example, if the local LAN in the above diagram is 192.168.1.0/24, then
|
|
you would add this rule:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ACTION SOURCE DEST
|
|
DROP:info net:192.168.1.0/24 all</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Be sure the above rule is added before any other rules with
|
|
<emphasis>net</emphasis> in the SOURCE column.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Example</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The configuration in the figure at the top of this section would
|
|
be specified in <filename>/etc/shorewall/providers</filename> as
|
|
follows.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#NAME NUMBER MARK DUPLICATE INTERFACE GATEWAY OPTIONS COPY
|
|
ISP1 1 1 main eth0 206.124.146.254 track,balance eth2
|
|
ISP2 2 2 main eth1 130.252.99.254 track,balance eth2</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Other configuration files go something like this:</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/interfaces</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#ZONE INTERFACE BROADCAST OPTIONS
|
|
net eth0 detect …
|
|
net eth1 detect …</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/policy</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#SOURCE DESTINATION POLICY LIMIT:BURST
|
|
net net DROP</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Regardless of whether you have masqueraded hosts or not, the
|
|
following entries are required in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename> if you plan to redirect
|
|
connections from the firewall using entries in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> or if you specify <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">balance</emphasis> on your providers.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS
|
|
eth0 130.252.99.27 206.124.146.176
|
|
eth1 206.124.146.176 130.252.99.27</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>Those entries ensure that traffic originating on the firewall and
|
|
redirected via packet marks always has the source IP address
|
|
corresponding to the interface that it is routed out of.</para>
|
|
|
|
<note>
|
|
<para>If you have a Dynamic IP address on either of the interfaces,
|
|
you can use shell variables to construct the above rules. For example,
|
|
if <filename class="devicefile">eth0</filename> had a dynamic IP
|
|
address, then:</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><filename>/etc/shorewall/params</filename>:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>ETH0_IP=$(find_first_interface_address eth0)</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>/etc/shorewall/masq:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS
|
|
eth0 130.252.99.27 $ETH0_IP
|
|
eth1 $ETH0_IP 130.252.99.27</programlisting>
|
|
</note>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you have masqueraded hosts, be sure to update
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename> to masquerade to both ISPs. For
|
|
example, if you masquerade all hosts connected to <filename
|
|
class="devicefile">eth2</filename> then:</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#INTERFACE SUBNET ADDRESS
|
|
eth0 eth2 206.124.146.176
|
|
eth1 eth2 130.252.99.27</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>Entries in <filename>/etc/shorewall/masq</filename> have no
|
|
effect on which ISP a particular connection will be sent through. That
|
|
is rather the purpose of entries in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/tcrules</filename> or
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/route_rules</filename>.</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
|
|
<para>Now suppose that you want to route all outgoing SMTP traffic from
|
|
your local network through ISP 2. You would make this entry in <ulink
|
|
url="traffic_shaping.htm">/etc/shorewall/tcrules</ulink> (and if you are
|
|
running a version of Shorewall earlier than 3.0.0, you would set
|
|
TC_ENABLED=Yes in <ulink
|
|
url="???">/etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf</ulink>).</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#MARK SOURCE DEST PROTO PORT(S) CLIENT USER TEST
|
|
# PORT(S)
|
|
2:P <local network> 0.0.0.0/0 tcp 25</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section id="Local">
|
|
<title>Applications running on the Firewall</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Experience has shown that in some cases, problems occur with
|
|
applications running on the firewall itself. This is especially true
|
|
when you have specified <emphasis role="bold">routefilter</emphasis> on
|
|
your external interfaces in /etc/shorewall/interfaces (see <link
|
|
linkend="Martians">above</link>). When this happens, it is suggested
|
|
that you have the application use specific local IP addresses rather
|
|
than 0.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Examples:</para>
|
|
|
|
<itemizedlist>
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>Squid: In <filename>squid.conf</filename>, set <emphasis
|
|
role="bold">tcp_outgoing_address</emphasis> to the IP address of the
|
|
interface that you want Squid to use.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>In OpenVPN, set <emphasis role="bold">local
|
|
</emphasis>(<emphasis role="bold">--local</emphasis> on the command
|
|
line) to the IP address that you want the server to receive
|
|
connections on.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</itemizedlist>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>/etc/shorewall/route_rules</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>The <filename>/etc/shorewall/route_rules</filename> file was added
|
|
in Shorewall version 3.2.0. The <filename>route_rules</filename> file
|
|
allows assigning certain traffic to a particular provider just as
|
|
entries in the <filename>tcrules</filename> file. The difference between
|
|
the two files is that entries in <filename>route_rules</filename> are
|
|
independent of Netfilter.</para>
|
|
|
|
<warning>
|
|
<para>Prior to Shorewall version 3.4.0, entries in
|
|
<filename>/etc/shorewall/route_rules</filename> permanently alter your
|
|
firewall/gateway's routing; that is, the effect of these changes is
|
|
not reversed by <command>shorewall stop</command> or
|
|
<command>shorewall clear</command>. To restore routing to its original
|
|
state, you may have to restart your network. This can usually be done
|
|
by <command>/etc/init.d/network restart</command> or
|
|
<command>/etc/init.d/networking restart</command>. Check your
|
|
distribution's networking documentation.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Please also see the <link linkend="Undo">warning in the section
|
|
above entitled <emphasis>What an Entry in the Providers File
|
|
Does</emphasis></link>.</para>
|
|
</warning>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Routing Rules</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Routing rules are maintained by the Linux kernel and can be
|
|
displayed using the <command>ip rule ls</command> command. When
|
|
routing a packet, the rules are processed in turn until the packet is
|
|
successfully routed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>gateway:~ # <command>ip rule ls</command>
|
|
0: from all lookup local <=== Local (to the firewall) IP addresses
|
|
10001: from all fwmark 0x1 lookup Blarg <=== This and the next rule are generated by the
|
|
10002: from all fwmark 0x2 lookup Comcast 'MARK' values in /etc/shorewall/providers.
|
|
20000: from 206.124.146.176 lookup Blarg <=== This and the next rule are generated unless
|
|
20256: from 24.12.22.33 lookup Comcast 'loose' is specified; based in the output of 'ip addr ls'
|
|
32766: from all lookup main <=== This is the routing table shown by 'iproute -n'
|
|
32767: from all lookup default <=== This table is usually empty
|
|
gateway:~ #</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>In the above example, there are two providers: Blarg and Comcast
|
|
with MARK 1 going to Blarg and mark 2 going to Comcast.</para>
|
|
</section>
|
|
|
|
<section>
|
|
<title>Columns in the route_rules file</title>
|
|
|
|
<para>Columns in the file are:</para>
|
|
|
|
<variablelist>
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>SOURCE (Optional)</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>An ip address (network or host) that matches the source IP
|
|
address in a packet. May also be specified as an interface name
|
|
optionally followed by ":" and an address. If the device 'lo' is
|
|
specified, the packet must originate from the firewall
|
|
itself.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>DEST (Optional)</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>An ip address (network or host) that matches the
|
|
destination IP address in a packet.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>If you choose to omit either SOURCE or DEST, place "-" in
|
|
that column. Note that you may not omit both SOURCE and
|
|
DEST.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>PROVIDER</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The provider to route the traffic through. May be
|
|
expressed either as the provider name or the provider
|
|
number.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
|
|
<varlistentry>
|
|
<term>PRIORITY</term>
|
|
|
|
<listitem>
|
|
<para>The rule's priority which determines the order in which
|
|
the rules are processed.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>1000-1999 Before Shorewall-generated 'MARK' rules</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>11000- 11999 After 'MARK' rules but before
|
|
Shorewall-generated rules for ISP interfaces.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>26000-26999 After ISP interface rules but before 'default'
|
|
rule.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Rules with equal priority are applied in the order in
|
|
which they appear in the file.</para>
|
|
</listitem>
|
|
</varlistentry>
|
|
</variablelist>
|
|
|
|
<para>Example 1: You want all traffic entering the firewall on eth1 to
|
|
be routed through Comcast.</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY
|
|
eth1 - Comcast 1000</programlisting>
|
|
|
|
<para>With this entry, the output of <command>ip rule ls</command>
|
|
would be as follows.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para><programlisting>gateway:~ # <command>ip rule ls</command>
|
|
0: from all lookup local
|
|
1000: from all iif eth1 lookup Comcast
|
|
10001: from all fwmark 0x1 lookup Blarg
|
|
10002: from all fwmark 0x2 lookup Comcast
|
|
20000: from 206.124.146.176 lookup Blarg
|
|
20256: from 24.12.22.33 lookup Comcast
|
|
32766: from all lookup main
|
|
32767: from all lookup default
|
|
gateway:~ #</programlisting>Note that because we used a priority of 1000, the
|
|
test for <filename class="devicefile">eth1</filename> is inserted
|
|
before the fwmark tests.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>Example 2: You use OpenVPN (routed setup w/tunX) in combination
|
|
with multiple providers. In this case you have to set up a rule to
|
|
ensure that the OpenVPN traffic is routed back through the tunX
|
|
interface(s) rather than through any of the providers. 10.8.0.0/24 is
|
|
the subnet choosen in your OpenVPN configuration (server 10.8.0.0
|
|
255.255.255.0).</para>
|
|
|
|
<programlisting>#SOURCE DEST PROVIDER PRIORITY
|
|
- 10.8.0.0/24 main 1000</programlisting>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</section>
|
|
</article>
|