Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      07 Nov 2003 09:02:07 -0500
From:      Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org>
To:        "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Routing With Two ISPs?
Message-ID:  <44vfpwgtuo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
In-Reply-To: <00d701c3a3c3$3ee06770$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
References:  <00d701c3a3c3$3ee06770$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
"Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes:

> I have a 4.8 box serving as a gateway with two connections to the
> Internet.  Is there some way to set the box up so that packets are
> routed out through the same interface from which they arrived?  For
> example, if a connection is initiated on port 80 from a packet arriving
> on one interface, is there a way to make the outgoing packets from my
> web server use that same interface as a gateway instead of the default
> interface?

Strictly speaking, this wouldn't be IP.  There are a number of ways to
hack something like this, but bear in mind that they all really are
hacks.  The "non-hack" way to do it would be to run real routing
protocols, but that requires cooperation from the ISPs...



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44vfpwgtuo.fsf>