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Update Multi-ISP documentation

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Signed-off-by: Tom Eastep <teastep@shorewall.net>
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Tom Eastep 2012-05-01 10:28:12 -07:00
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Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-providers.xml
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being zero). Otherwise, the value must be between 1 and 255. Each
provider must be assigned a unique mark value. This column may be
omitted if you don't use packet marking to direct connections to a
particular provider and you don't specify <option>track</option> in
the OPTIONS column.</para>
particular provider.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

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Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-providers.xml
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of the value being zero). Otherwise, the value must be between 1 and
255. Each provider must be assigned a unique mark value. This column
may be omitted if you don't use packet marking to direct connections
to a particular provider and you don't specify
<option>track</option> in the OPTIONS column.</para>
to a particular provider.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@ -321,10 +320,9 @@
<para>shorewall6(8), shorewall6-accounting(5), shorewall6-actions(5),
shorewall6-blacklist(5), shorewall6-hosts(5), shorewall6-interfaces(5),
shorewall6-maclist(5), shoewall6-netmap(5),shorewall6-params(5),
shorewall6-policy(5), shorewall6-rtrules(5),
shorewall6-routestopped(5), shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5),
shorewall6-secmarks(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5),
shorewall6-tcrules(5), shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5),
shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
shorewall6-policy(5), shorewall6-rtrules(5), shorewall6-routestopped(5),
shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5), shorewall6-secmarks(5),
shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5), shorewall6-tcrules(5),
shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5), shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>

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docs/MultiISP.xml
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<warning>
<para>This document describes the Multi-ISP facility in <emphasis
role="bold">Shorewall 4.5.0 and later</emphasis>. If you are running an
role="bold">Shorewall 4.4.26 and later</emphasis>. If you are running an
earlier release, please see the documentation for that release.</para>
</warning>
@ -251,25 +251,25 @@
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>These mark values must be a multiple of 256 in the
range 256-65280 (hex equivalent 0x100 - 0xFF00 with the
<para>With HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=Yes (PROVIDER_OFFSET=8), these
mark values must be a multiple of 256 in the range
256-65280 (hex equivalent 0x100 - 0xFF00 with the
low-order 8 bits being zero); or</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Set WIDE_TC_MARKS=Yes in <ulink
url="manpages/shorewall.conf.html">shorewall.conf
</ulink>(5) and use mark values in the range 0x10000 -
0xFF0000 with the low-order 16 bits being zero.</para>
</ulink>(5) (PROVIDER_OFFSET=16), and use mark values in
the range 0x10000 - 0xFF0000 with the low-order 16 bits
being zero.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This column may be omitted if you don´t use packet marking
to direct connections to a particular provider and you don´t
specify <emphasis role="bold">track</emphasis> in the OPTIONS
column.</para>
to direct connections to a particular provider.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
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url="FAQ.htm#faq58">FAQ 58</ulink>.</para>
</note></para>
</important>
<important>
<para>If you specify <emphasis
role="bold">balance</emphasis> and still find that all
traffic is going out through only one provider, you may
need to install a kernel built with
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED=n. Several users have
reported that this change has corrected similar
problems.</para>
<para>The SuSE 10.0 kernel is subject to this problem, and
<ulink
url="https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=190908">
a kernel oops may result in this circumstance.</ulink>
SUSE 10.1 and SLES 10 have
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED=n set by default. The
source of the problem seems to be <ulink
url="http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3c00da01c5b35a%24b12b9860%241b00a8c0%40cruncher%3e">an
incompatibility between the LARTC patches and
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED.</ulink></para>
</important>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>