On 08/02/2017 06:02 AM, Vieri Di Paola via Shorewall-users wrote:
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> From: Vieri Di Paola via Shorewall-users 
> <[email protected]>
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>> # tcpdump -nni enp6s0 icmp
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> 
> I think I just found a solution, but I still need to understand why.
> 
> I had to add proxyarp=1 to the wan interface in "interfaces". Pings to wan 
> hosts started working.
> 
> Funny thing is that if I set proxyarp=0 and restart shorewall the pings still 
> work. They stop working only if I reboot the kernel (waiting doesn't seem to 
> make the pings fail either - there doesn't seem to be a timeout or similar). 
> Resetting proxyarp=1 and restarting shorewall works as expected.
> 
> I still have to understand why this interface requires proxyarp, and the 
> other interfaces don't.
> 

A current dump of fw1 might shed some light on that...

-Tom
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