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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] Acessing multiply servers with same IP's
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 03:57:04 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B07E90.5020908@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200607090535.10566.acetyloholina@go2.pl>

Mike wrote:
> Good day,
> 
> My name is Mike and without further ado forgive me that I'll go straight to 
> the point.
> 
> rtlsrc-2.4.29-2.diff this patch is obsoleted, but it would come in handy when 
> trying to solve the IP collisions in networks. I have situation around here 
> becouse I intend to connect through my wifi card to many gateways with same 
> IP adresses - 192.168.0.1 with /24 mask - then I'd like to use them all as 
> Alternative routes, as far as I know it can be done for two of that kind 
> gates, thanks to danieldg:
> <danieldg> right
> <danieldg> one hack, if you only wanted two: add a bridge interface to the 
> wireless
> <danieldg> then you have wlan0 and br0, both the same
> <danieldg> then you could use ebtables to change the MACs of the bridge access
> <danieldg> and leave the direct wlan0 access alone (so it would use the "real" 
> MAC)
> <I_v0> mhm, and when having two different MAC's I can have two different IP's
> <I_v0> but I can't make more than one bridge, can I ?
> <danieldg> no, not on one interface
> 
> The last two lines speak of themselves, only one bridge, only one additional 
> MAC, so possibility to use only two gateways. I know that's real simple when 
> having each subnet connected to different iface it's just I'll run out of 
> interfaces real fast if I'll connect these so.
> 
> Can you propose anything in such situation?
> 
> Best wishes,
> Mike

Use more IPs.  Use a combination of IPTables / EBTables to make your system believe that each different gateway has a different IP address.  If you do this you can easily tell the system routing stack that it has multiple gateways to work with.



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