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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:11:11 +0200
From:      "tonix (Antonio Nati)" <tonix@interazioni.it>
To:        Tom Judge <tom@tomjudge.com>
Cc:        freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Advanced routing option
Message-ID:  <471F1A3F.5070100@interazioni.it>
In-Reply-To: <471F14E1.8050900@tomjudge.com>
References:  <471F0422.5080800@interazioni.it> <471F14E1.8050900@tomjudge.com>

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Tom Judge ha scritto:
> 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.
>
I feel it is more a routing feature than a fw feature. I don't see 
extending routing tables (and relative routing checking) so complicated.

Tonino

> Tom
>
>
>


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