From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 4:29:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f130.law11.hotmail.com [64.4.17.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3562837B719 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:29:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce_piper@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 04:29:27 -0800 Received: from 203.164.3.170 by lw11fd.law11.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Fri, 09 Mar 2001 12:29:27 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.164.3.170] From: "Bruce Piper" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Routing question Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 23:29:27 +1100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 Mar 2001 12:29:27.0419 (UTC) FILETIME=[94F69CB0:01C0A894] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi there I have just added a second router to my network. The existing router (slow) has a fixed (public) IP address and all the addresses on my LAN are public static addresses. The new router is much faster but uses NAT to map a single IP address from my ISP onto my internal network. On my FreeBSD boxes, if I change the 'default router' to the address of the new router internal access from these boxes to the internet is much faster. However mail and web access from outside into my network (which come via the fixed IP address of the slow router) don't get through, I presume because when the FreeBSD boxes reply they send their reply to the default router which is the new one which is not the one that the requests have come through on (if you follow me...). My question is, is there any way to have a number of routers on my network, each of which has access to the internet, and ensure that people accessing the network externally via the fixed IP address and associated domain names get their requests served properly, but by default from those same servers they use the fast link except where absolutely necessary. Or am I completely confused? Many thanks for any assistance Bruce Piper _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message