On 06/21/2017 08:15 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
> On 06/20/2017 11:21 PM, Norman Henderson wrote:
>> Thank you for this Tom. The "persistent" option is a good help, although
>> it has the side effect that on reload etc. Shorewall will try to
>> re-enable the provider, which is not desirable if it is flaky e.g. can
>> be enabled but won't pass traffic.
> 
> That isn't intentional. I'll take a look.
> 

I'm not seeing that behavior:

root@gateway:~# shorewall disable eth0
   Provider IPv6Beta (1) stopped
root@gateway:~# shorewall reload
Reloading Shorewall....
Initializing...
Setting up ARP filtering...
Setting up Route Filtering...
Setting up Martian Logging...
Setting up Accept Source Routing...
Setting up log backend
Setting up Proxy ARP...
Adding Providers...
Null Routing the RFC 1918 subnets
   WARNING: Interface eth0 is not usable -- Provider IPv6Beta (1) not
Started
   WARNING: No Default route added (all 'balance' providers are down)
Preparing iptables-restore input...
Running /sbin/iptables-restore ...
IPv4 Forwarding Enabled
Processing /etc/shorewall/started ...
done.
root@gateway:~# shorewall enable eth0
Provider IPv6Beta (1) Started
root@gateway:~#

-Tom

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