From owner-freebsd-net Sat Mar 17 21: 0:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 570BD37B719 for ; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 21:00:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=e2ac17607717542762bb10950cc925a6) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14eVJZ-0007XD-00; Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:01:13 -0700 Message-ID: <3AB44119.3666D825@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:01:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Rogness Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai Subject: Re: same interface Route Cache References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Rogness wrote: > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Nick Rogness wrote: > > More clarification. > > > > > > I completely fail to see that you have actually stated a problem yet. > > > > > > What exactly is the problem you think you're trying to solve here? > > > > > > > Consider the following. I have to restate this every damn couple > > of weeks to get it through. Here is the problem: > > > > > > ISP#1 ISP#2 > > | | > > | | > > --- xl0 FreeBSD xl1 ----- > > xl2 > > | > > | > > Internal network > > | > > | > > Machine 1 > > > > > > Packet 1 comes in through ISP #2 network. It comes into your > > internal network to machine 1. Machine 1 replies to the > > packet...but where does it go? It will exit through interface > > to ISP #1 because of the default gateway. It came in ISP #2 and > > left out ISP #1. There is your problem. > > There is no way to tell your packet to go back out to ISP #2. That is the > point I'm trying to get across. Unless your running a routing > daemon. But is that really practical with cable modems, dsl, etc?...I > don't think so. Why would the physical media have anything to do with routing protocols? > > What if you are running nat in this case....your hosed. > > natd on each interface is what I'm stating here...just to clarify. natd doesn't correctly translate RIP packets? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message