From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 10:56:26 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5421416A46B for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:56:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from s200aog14.obsmtp.com (s200aog14.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.128]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2741B13C4A6 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:56:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@tomjudge.com) Received: from source ([217.206.187.80]) by eu1sys200aob014.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:56:08 UTC Received: from [10.0.0.89] (bill.mintel.co.uk [10.0.0.89]) by rodney.mintel.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766A918141B; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:56:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <471F24C6.8020808@tomjudge.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:56:06 +0100 From: Tom Judge User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (X11/20070824) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "tonix (Antonio Nati)" References: <471F0422.5080800@interazioni.it> <471F14E1.8050900@tomjudge.com> <471F1A3F.5070100@interazioni.it> In-Reply-To: <471F1A3F.5070100@interazioni.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advanced routing option X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:56:26 -0000 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