From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 09:11:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA22235 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:11:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA22229 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA23608 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:11:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 09:11:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: routing trickery Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Here's a challenge for ya... We have a 2.2.6 FreeBSD box serving as a small router. The machine is connected to two providers and a handful of local networks. The default route is set up to route all the traffic to one of the two providers, the other being a backup. Being the gracious people we are, we're taking some bandwidth over from another company. We'd like to plug those links into this router and send that data out to the second provider. In essence, chop the router in half. The question: Can you do this, and how? The obvious way is to upgrade to -CURRENT and use ipfw's 'fwd' rule to forward all packets from the company's interface to the second provider. However, that means upgrading a critical piece of equipment to -CURRENT, and we'd like to avoid that. Another possibility is to use some of the wierd routing features of ipfilter, but I"m not sure how to set that up or even if ipfilter works under that version of the OS. I'd be interested in hearing of any other solutions peopole have used. Thanks for any help... Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message