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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:07:58 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
To:        Albert Chin-A-Young <china@thewrittenword.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Routing help
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007261522020.34597-100000@rapidnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000726160630.A6599@postal.thewrittenword.com>

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2000 at 02:43:30PM -0600, Nick Rogness wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Albert Chin-A-Young wrote:
> > > I have a FreeBSD/x86 3.4 box configured with two NICs, both connected
> > > to separate networks. I have one default route. How would I do the
> > > following:
> > >   1. Respond to all packets coming from NIC #1 through NIC #1 and
> > >      respond to all packages coming from NIC #2 through NIC #2.
> > >      Because I have a default route, all packages return through
> > >      only one NIC.
> > 
> > 	Return from where?  Are the hosts on the networks connected
> > 	pointed at the FreeBSD as the default gateway? 
> > 
> > 	I'm not quite clear on what you mean but I would recommend some
> > 	type of Interior routing protocol, like RIP or OSPF to handle
> > 	your routing needs.  Static routes can be a pain to manage after a
> > 	while.
> 
> Say the FreeBSD box is a web server and gets a connection from host
> foo on the 'net. This connection comes in over NIC #1. When the
> BSD box wishes to communicate back with this host, I want the traffic
> to go back through NIC #1, regardless of what the default route says.

	You need to run a routing protocol then ;-)  depending on how your
	network is designed and how your host connects to the
	network, you can tweek this quite a bit.  Still, this would be
	very tricky to implement in certain situations and would never be
	exact.

	Here's a question for ya, Are all networks (routeable) reachable
	through both ethernet cards?

	What are you trying to accomplish?

> Yet as it's being worked on?

	I don't know.


Nick Rogness
- Drive defensively.  Buy a tank.





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