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Hi I''m trying to monitor my multi ISP shorewall with swping, the script works fine, i can see in log when an ISP is down, the script restart shorewall and /etc/shorewall/isusable is called, however in the swping log after the shorewall restart i see again a route by ISP (even the ISP down), is it normal ? should i not see one route less? shorewall vers...

...e multiple links to the same ISP where both links use an ethernet interface (as opposed to PPP0E) and have the same default gateway. As part of this change, the generated firewall script now automatically maintains the /var/lib/shorewall[6][-lite]/interface.status files used by SWPING and by LSM. See http://www.shorewall.net/MultiISP.html#load for additional information. Example that sends 1/3 of the connections to the ComcastC provider and the rest to ComcastB: /etc/shorewall/shorewall.conf MARK_IN_FORWARD_CHAIN=No ... USE_DEFAULT_RT=Yes...

Hello, it seems I am hit by http://shorewall.net/MultiISP.html#Local : "Experience has shown that in some cases, problems occur with applications running on the firewall itself. This is especially true when you have specified routefilter on your external interfaces in /etc/shorewall/interfaces (see above). When this happens, it is suggested that you have the application use specific local IP