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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:05:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Dave Cornejo <cornejo@epatl.genmagic.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: routing to multiple internet connections
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980112220327.22079P-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199801091750.JAA17832@epatl.genmagic.com>

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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Dave Cornejo wrote:

> I have two connections to the Internet - one frame relay and one cable
> modem connected to two separate ethernet segments.  I have one FreeBSD
> box sitting on both segments.  My main network is the ethernet
> connected to the frame relay, and I need most things to happen through
> that network.  For http & ftp however, I want to put a
> proxy/cache/whatever on the FreeBSD system and have it route it's
> traffic specifically to the cable modem segment.
> 
> It's easy enough to get the packets to the interface, but the problem
> is that essentially I have two 'default' gateways, one for each
> interface.  Getting real routing info from the routers is problematic,
> as both claim to offer default routing and I only have access to the
> one on the frame relay network.
> 
> So, am I screwed and just need to pick one net or the other as my
> default?  Or does anybody have any suggestions?

You need to pick one.  Routing can't route based on port addresses, as far
as I know.  You can hold one of them as a backup, however, so if your
primary link goes down you can (manually) reroute to the other link.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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