Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 01:47:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Nielsen" <nielsen@memberwebs.com> To: "Matt Impett" <M.Impett@flarion.com>, "freebsd questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: source address based routing Message-ID: <20020627084746.8313237B400@hub.freebsd.org> References: <8C92E23A3E87FB479988285F9E22BE46FDE777@ftmail.lab.flarion.com>
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Use ipf with the fastroute action. This lets you short circuit a packet to an interface rather than an IP. Sounds closer to what you want to do. HTH Nate Nielsen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Impett" <M.Impett@flarion.com> To: "'Lars Eggert'" <larse@ISI.EDU>; "Matt Impett" <M.Impett@flarion.com> Cc: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 18:13 Subject: RE: source address based routing > I have looked at the firewall rather exetensively, but I don't know that it > can do what I want. > > >From what I can tell, the firewall fwd functionality allows you to redirect > a packet to a different next hop based on any of the firewall matching rules > (one of which is source address). > > What I want to do, however, is redirect the packet to a tunnel (gif device) > that has no next-hop associated with it. Is there any way to do this?? > > thanks, > matt > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lars Eggert [mailto:larse@ISI.EDU] > > Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 4:41 PM > > To: Matt Impett > > Cc: 'freebsd-net@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > > Subject: Re: source address based routing > > > > > > Matt Impett wrote: > > > I was wondering if it is possible to do pure source address > > based routing > > > under FreeBSD. What I really want to do is route packets > > from particular > > > source addresses to tunnels (gif devices) regardless of > > what the packet's > > > destination address is. > > > > Firewall forwarding will do that, see ipfw (8), esp. the fwd action. > > > > Lars > > -- > > Lars Eggert <larse@isi.edu> USC Information > > Sciences Institute > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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