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Date:      Sat, 05 Sep 1998 13:24:52 -0600
From:      Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
To:        Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to add route
Message-ID:  <35F19004.88A643C0@softweyr.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980904023448.1910J-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>

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Vincent Poy wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> 
> > Vincent Poy wrote:
> >
> > > each T1 is on a separate interface.  What I meant to say was is there a
> > > way around the route add default to be pointing to only one interface or
> > > IP like making all packets from 208.164.68.0/24 go out of eth0 and
> > > 209.84.252.0/24 go out of eth1.  Each interface does have it's own IP.
> >
> > have you read http://www.netaxs.com/~freedman/multi.html?
> > (that and other links at http://www.mindspring.com/~jlindsay/bgp.html)
> 
>         Just read it... My concerns is not incoming packets not coming in
> correctly since each CIDR/24 block comes in on the correct circuit as the
> IPs belong to each provider.  What I want to know is how to set routes so
> that depending on which CIDR/24 block a packet from my LAN is coming from,
> which circuit it will use to get the packet out since right now, all
> packets going out would be using only one circuit.

One simple way to do this is to use two routers, one for each external
interface.  
You can then select which circuit is used by pointing the default route
on the 
client machines at the appropriate router.  When using old PC hardware
and 
FreeBSD, routers become pretty cheap.  ;^)

The other solution would be to NOT define a default route on the router,
but
rather to configure gated with both interfaces in Silent or Active mode,
and
let the learned routes take care of the problem for you.  These would
still
be routed by destination, not by source, but the overall effect should
be to
balance the load according to the "costs" of the routes.

This conversation is much more appropriate for the freebsd-net mailing
list,
so I've cc'ed it over there.  Please rejoin the thread there, if
necessary.

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