Bug in Multi-ISP Support
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An iptables based firewall for systems running the Linux 2.4 or later kernel. Very flexible configuration allows the firewall to be used in a wide variety of firewall/gateway/router and VPN environments.   A bug that was supposedly fixed in Shorewall 3.4.4 was not fixed. Furthermore, the bug is present as far back as 3.2.6.  If HIGH_ROUTE_MARKS=No, then PREROUTING and OUTPUT marking rules are behaving as if TC_EXPERT=Yes was specified in shorewall.conf. In other words, these rules are being applied even if the connection has been marked as being associated with a particular ISP.  The symptoms in this user's case were that requests through ISP1 that were port-forwarded to an SMTP server were being replied through ISP2. The reason was that there was a tcrule which selected ISP2 for all connections from the SMTP server.  Errata patches as follows:  http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/3.2/shorewall-3.2.10/errata/patches/Shorewall/patch-3.2.10-2.diff http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/3.4/shorewall-3.4.6/errata/patches/Shorewall/patch-3.4.6-1.diff http://www1.shorewall.net/pub/shorewall/4.0/shorewall-4.0.2/errata/patches/Shorewall-shell/patch-shell-4.0.2-2.diff  The 3.2.10 patch applies to all 3.2 releases from at least 3.2.6 onward and to 3.4 releases 3.4.0-3.4.3 (with offset). The 3.4.6 patch will also work on 3.4.4 and 3.4.5 (again, with possible offset).  It is also possible to work around the problem by adding these two rules at the beginning of your tcrules file:  CONTINUE:P      0.0.0.0/0       0.0.0.0/0       -       -       -       - !0 CONTINUE        $FW             0.0.0.0/0       -       -       -       - !0
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