Date: 07 Nov 2003 09:02:07 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Routing With Two ISPs? Message-ID: <44vfpwgtuo.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <00d701c3a3c3$3ee06770$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> References: <00d701c3a3c3$3ee06770$6e2a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>
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"Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net> writes: > I have a 4.8 box serving as a gateway with two connections to the > Internet. Is there some way to set the box up so that packets are > routed out through the same interface from which they arrived? For > example, if a connection is initiated on port 80 from a packet arriving > on one interface, is there a way to make the outgoing packets from my > web server use that same interface as a gateway instead of the default > interface? Strictly speaking, this wouldn't be IP. There are a number of ways to hack something like this, but bear in mind that they all really are hacks. The "non-hack" way to do it would be to run real routing protocols, but that requires cooperation from the ISPs...
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