Eric Hidle on 6 Dec 2004 09:47:02 -0000 |
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 > > > **************************** > * Doug Crompton * > * Richboro, PA 18954 * > * 215-431-6307 * > * * > * doug@crompton.com * > * wa3dsp@wa3dsp.ampr.org * > * http://www.crompton.com * > **************************** > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
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