Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:56:06 +0100 From: Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com> To: "tonix (Antonio Nati)" <tonix@interazioni.it> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced routing option Message-ID: <471F24C6.8020808@tomjudge.com> In-Reply-To: <471F1A3F.5070100@interazioni.it> References: <471F0422.5080800@interazioni.it> <471F14E1.8050900@tomjudge.com> <471F1A3F.5070100@interazioni.it>
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tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: > Tom Judge ha scritto: >> tonix (Antonio Nati) wrote: >>> I'm using FreeBSD and Monowall in the most of my servers. >>> >>> One limit I'm facing on both is the lack of an advanced routing feature. >>> >>> Would be too complicated to modify "route" sources (and probably >>> kernel tables) implementing a FROM parameter in ADD command? >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> A FROM option would improve a lot routing capabilities and handling >>> of multiple WAN connections. >>> >>> Any comment? >>> >>> Tonino >>> >> >> If you wish to do this type of policy routing you need to use one of >> the firewalls as it can't be done in the routing table. PF can do >> this easily with its route-to option. >> > I feel it is more a routing feature than a fw feature. I don't see > extending routing tables (and relative routing checking) so complicated. > > Tonino It is not that it is not complicated. It is that it is _NOT_ _POSSIBLE_ to do this with the FreeBSD routing sub system. You _MUST_ do this with a firewall on FreeBSD. Tom
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