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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:48:17 +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:  <471F14E1.8050900@tomjudge.com>
In-Reply-To: <471F0422.5080800@interazioni.it>
References:  <471F0422.5080800@interazioni.it>

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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.

Tom





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