Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:06:30 -0500 From: Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com> To: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing help Message-ID: <20000726160630.A6599@postal.thewrittenword.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261426190.34597-100000@rapidnet.com>; from nick@rapidnet.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:43:30PM -0600 References: <20000726013652.B8690@postal.thewrittenword.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261426190.34597-100000@rapidnet.com>
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On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:43:30PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD/x86 3.4 box configured with two NICs, both connected > > to separate networks. I have one default route. How would I do the > > following: > > 1. Respond to all packets coming from NIC #1 through NIC #1 and > > respond to all packages coming from NIC #2 through NIC #2. > > Because I have a default route, all packages return through > > only one NIC. > > Return from where? Are the hosts on the networks connected > pointed at the FreeBSD as the default gateway? > > I'm not quite clear on what you mean but I would recommend some > type of Interior routing protocol, like RIP or OSPF to handle > your routing needs. Static routes can be a pain to manage after a > while. Say the FreeBSD box is a web server and gets a connection from host foo on the 'net. This connection comes in over NIC #1. When the BSD box wishes to communicate back with this host, I want the traffic to go back through NIC #1, regardless of what the default route says. > > 2. If NIC #1 goes down and the default route is set to NIC #1, > > no packets can go through on NIC #2 (only for that subnet). > > Is it possible to add a second default route so when the > > network on NIC #1 goes down packets are sent through > > NIC #2 (this disturbs connections already on NIC #1 but > > that's OK). > > > > This discussion has come up before. You can't > (yet) add the same route to a netblock that is already in the > routing table. Yet as it's being worked on? Thanks. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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