From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 26 16:03:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA28813 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA28806 for ; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 16:03:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA12103; Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:56:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd012101; Sun Oct 26 23:56:28 1997 Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 15:54:51 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Steven Harris cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Routing Question In-Reply-To: <199710271011500956.185651DF@192.168.60.1> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I don't know if it will help, butmaybe you should investigate the 'mpd' port. (multi-link ppp daemon) Us this in conjunction with natd to get a general purpose version of what you are doing.... On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Steven Harris wrote: > Hi there, > > I have been reading about NATD and have a question to ask: > > We currently have a FreeBSD server on our internal LAN, where we use internal IP addresses (192.168.xxx.xxx). We all connect via a proxy running on the server to the internet which has TWO dial up PPP connections (ppp0 and ppp1). > > At the moment, routing is performed every second and is basically switched from ppp0<-->ppp1 to spread out traffic evenly. (Ie. the default route is changed). This works well for WWW traffic. > > Is there any way to 'wrap' packets in a header and give them the IP address of the interface that they are currently being sent out of - does natd do this? I dont want to route all the LAN traffic through the server, just the server traffic itself, so i dont know if natd is the answer, but I have a suspicion it lies in there somewhere with IP masquerading or IP firewalling or IP divert..? > > Any help would be *greatly* appreciated.. > > Steve Harris > Syetems Admin. >