Eric Hidle on 6 Dec 2004 09:47:02 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] routing question....


Yes, read the lartc howto - you can set up separate routing tables for
different classes of traffic. Look specifically at the chapter on
multi-homing. If you don't set up a separate routing table, all outgoing
traffic from the box will go out the default route.
E


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Doug Crompton" <doug@crompton.com>
To: "Phila Linux Users Group" <PLUG@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 1:24 AM
Subject: [PLUG] routing question....


> Is there a way to route traffic back out the same port in came in from on
> a multi-port system?
>
> I am switching from PPP to Ethernet (DSL) and in the transition phase it
> would be nice. It seems that different paths - EG. in on PPP out on DSL or
> in on DSL out on PPP does not work. The data flows but the connection
> never establishes. Can't you have different RX/TX data paths? I suspect it
> is because it uses the (ppp0) assigned IP address in response to port
> requests on both ports thus confusing the originating client.
>
> So instead of that, in a system with ppp0 and eth0 can you have the data
> go out the same path in came in on with the same IP- in esscense two route
> defaults. All data that came in on ppp0 goes out on ppp0 and data in on
> eth0 goes out on eth0.
>
> My ppp0 is assigned one IP and eth0 another.
>
> Doug
>
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