From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 4 19:08:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C941337B401 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:08:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from m249b.studby.ntnu.no (m249b.studby.ntnu.no [129.241.129.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C850143FBD for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 19:08:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from notsane@sveitt.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m249b.studby.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3F06CC; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Received: from m249b.studby.ntnu.no ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (m249b.studby.ntnu.no [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 72458-09; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:08:07 +0200 (CEST) Received: from sveitt.org (m085b.studby.ntnu.no [129.241.129.85]) by m249b.studby.ntnu.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD606CA; Tue, 5 Aug 2003 04:08:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F2F1178.8060106@sveitt.org> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 04:07:52 +0200 From: "Asbjorn L. Johansen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030716 Debian/1.4-2.he-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olivier Nicole References: <1060008117.a01537208ba27@mail.worldinternet.org> <200308050106.IAA01216@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200308050106.IAA01216@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at m249b.studby.ntnu.no X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ipfw - natd - squid - 3 Nic's - 1 FBSD 5.1 server and routing question X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2003 02:08:11 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: >>The problem is that I don't know how to get the outgoing >>requests from squid to use the nic that is connected to the cable company. > > > I think that at least would need quite some twisting of the set-up. > > Is the outgoing bandwidth a problem (usually that is the incoming > bandwidth that is saturated and the outgoing is pretty empty). Not only outgoing traffic for squid will be traversing that link, but also the answers to those requests sent out. So even thought your not really interested in the outgoing traffic as such, you have to send it out on that link to get responses back on the same link. -- Asbjørn L. Johansen notsane@sveitt.org