From owner-freebsd-net Wed Jul 26 15: 8:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B936D37BFFA for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:08:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rapidnet.com) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA18118; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:07:58 -0600 (MDT) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:07:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Albert Chin-A-Young Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Routing help In-Reply-To: <20000726160630.A6599@postal.thewrittenword.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message