Josh,

Unfortunately, since you do not really provide relevant details about
your setup, my suggestions below are only guesses.

On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 02:13:01AM -0700, JoSH Lehan wrote:
> 
> 1) If the router is rebooted while either the cable or the DSL is down,
> Shorewall won't come up  It requires *both* interfaces to be fully 
> active before Shorewall will start.  If either is down, my firewall is 
> DOA, requiring manual intervention.
> 
> I was hoping to set up a dual WAN setup for redundancy and safety, and 
> unfortunately instead, this makes it *more* brittle.
> 
Have you tried specifying the interfaces as optional?  That should fix
all the problems you have described having.
> 
> I'm running Shorewall 4.2.10 on Debian.  Is it worth upgrading to 4.4?
> 
I think that it is.  I have a Lenny repository that has those packages:

http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/debian/

> What Shorewall output should I provide here, that might assist in asking
> for help?
> 
The output of 'shorewall dump' at various stages (e.g., started with
both providers and interfaces up and available, after one or the other
interface has gone down, etc.).

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com

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