On 11/15/10 9:13 AM, Alan Madill wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/12/2010 11:29 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
>>
>> One key piece of information that was omitted is that your Shorewall
>> configuration uses policy routing (providers).
>>
>> - Therefore, the firewall apparently ignores the packet even though
>>    there is a perm ARP table entry for 10.1.19.248.
>>
>>      ? (10.1.19.248) at * PERM PUP on eth1.4
>>
>> When you have VPN connections that come and go, it is recommended that
>> you set USE_DEFAULT_RT=Yes which causes all packets to be first routed
>> via the main table and only if they don't match an entry in the main
>> table do they get sent to a provider table. In this configuration, there
>> is no default route in the main table. This allows dynamic changes in
>> the main table to be visible to all packets.
>>
> 
> That was the fix, thank you.  I had turned off USE_DEFAULT_RT so that systems 
> on 
> the PROC (industrial) side of the network would have no knowledge of the 
> routes 
> on the CORP (business) side.

How would they get this knowledge? If your firewall rules prohibit such
traffic, why does the existence of these routes matter?

> 
> One other question.  How do I force the firewall itself to use eth0 and its 
> default route for outgoing connections?  As it is I have a 50/50 chance of 
> hitting the corporate ISA server for outgoing connections for yum updates and 
> ssh sessions.  It is just those two protocols that I am concerned about.  
> Would 
> it fit in tcrules?

Yes -- with $FW as the source. Note that you may have to resort to the
routing rule that is given in "Applications running on the Firewall
-making them use a particular provider" section of the Shorewall
Multi-ISP doc.

-Tom
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