Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:15:47 -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: <20000726171547.A10709@postal.thewrittenword.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261522020.34597-100000@rapidnet.com>; from nick@rapidnet.com on Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:07:58PM -0600 References: <20000726160630.A6599@postal.thewrittenword.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261522020.34597-100000@rapidnet.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 04:07:58PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote: > > > 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. > > You need to run a routing protocol then ;-) depending on how your > network is designed and how your host connects to the > network, you can tweek this quite a bit. Still, this would be > very tricky to implement in certain situations and would never be > exact. > > Here's a question for ya, Are all networks (routeable) reachable > through both ethernet cards? Yes. > What are you trying to accomplish? We have two different ISPs providing our internet connection, with the web and ftp server multihomed (second NIC not alive yet). I want to survive the case where one ISP goes dead. -- albert chin (china@thewrittenword.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20000726171547.A10709>