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Hi,

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:36:50AM +0200, tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote:
> I'm using FreeBSD and Monowall in the most of my servers.
>=20
> One limit I'm facing on both is the lack of an advanced routing feature.
>=20
> Would be too complicated to modify "route" sources (and probably kernel=
=20
> tables) implementing a FROM parameter in ADD command?
>=20
> route add 0.0.0.0/0   210.10.10.1
> route add FROM 200.1.1.0/24      0.0.0.0/0     210.10.10.10
> route add FROM 200.1.2.0/24      0.0.0.0/0     210.10.11.11
>=20
> A FROM option would improve a lot routing capabilities and handling of=20
> multiple WAN connections.
>=20
> Any comment?

It's quite easy and very flexible to use for example pf for that. This=20
is actually a lot more flexible than doing that in routing tables. I see=20
no reason to blow up the efficient and well working routing framework=20
for an edge case which can be handled easily by existing tools.

- Oliver

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