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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [LARTC] adv. routing features not working?
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 10:30:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-100893068911411@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-100888503304877@msgid-missing>

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 04:23:54PM -0800, Ross Simpson wrote:

> Your suggestions work great (with one minor change).. thank you!
> But... I don't understand why.
> 
> > ip rule add from 10.4.44.11 table speed
> > ip rule add from 10.4.44.12 table lucent
> 
> What context is the 'from' in?  It seems to me that the linux box would
> never see packets from either of those two addresses (.11 and .12).  Maybe
> to them, but not from them.

This is *outgoing* routing! So in this case, 'from' looks at the source
address.

> > ip route add default via 10.4.44.1 dev eth0 table speed
> > ip route add default via 10.4.44.1 dev eth0 table lucent
> 
> I changed the gw on the speed entry to 10.4.44.2, which is correct for that
> router.

I was just testing to see if you were paying attention :-)

> Thanks again for all the help..

Np.

Regards,

bert

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-21 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-20 21:50 [LARTC] adv. routing features not working? Ross Simpson
2001-12-20 21:56 ` bert hubert
2001-12-20 22:18 ` Ross Simpson
2001-12-20 22:22 ` bert hubert
2001-12-20 23:24 ` Ross Simpson
2001-12-21 10:30 ` bert hubert [this message]

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