My situation is as follows: <= /DIV>

Workstation

= =20 |

= ;=20 Server

|&nb= sp; =20 |

ppp0 &= nbsp;=20 ppp1

As you see, i have 2 internet connec= tions. One of=20 them (ppp1) is dedicated to some gameservers I am running. To ma= ke sure all=20 incoming trafic on this interface also leaves via this interface, I a= dded the=20 following rules:

from all to = 145.y.y.y=20 lookup ppp1
from 145.y.y.y lookup ppp1

And table ppp1 contains the followin= g=20 entries:

145.y.y.y dev ppp= 1 scope=20 link
default via 145.y.y.0 dev ppp1

It is clear that when I connect= from my=20 Workstation to a gameserver running on ppp1, I will never receive any= packets,=20 that's why I have also added the following rules:

from 145.y.y.y to= 192.168.0.0/16=20 lookup main
from 192.168.0.0/16 to 145.y.y.y lo= okup=20 main

So this is all working well, but her= e comes the=20 problem. The gameservers are communicating with some master serv= ers to=20 authenticate my cdkey. The client (my workstation) sends a message to= the master=20 which checks my cdkey and stores the result of that with my ip. When = I connect=20 to a gameserver, the server connects also to that master and asks if = the player=20 has a valid cdkey by sending the players IP address. And there is the= problem.=20 Because I am connecting from a LAN behind my server, the gameservers = which runs=20 on my server see me with a 192.168.x.x address, but the master server= is seeing=20 my public IP address (ppp0). As you understand, because of this it is= impossible=20 for me to logon on my gameservers :(

What I have tried to do, is to route= traffic coming=20 =66rom my Workstation with destination ppp1 over ppp0 to the gateway.= Then the=20 gateway would send the traffic back to ppp1 and both the master and m= y=20 gameservers see my public IP address. This is what I have done:

The rule

"from 192.168.0.0= /16 to=20 145.y.y.y lookup main"

changed in

"from 192.168.0.0= /16 to=20 145.y.y.y lookup ppp0"

and I deleted the rule

"from 145.y.y.y t= o=20 192.168.0.0/16 lookup main"

table ppp0 looks like this:

145.x.x.x dev ppp= 0 scope=20 link
145.y.y.y via 145.x.x.0 dev=20 ppp0

Unfortunately this aint working, but= what am I=20 doing wrong? Is it just impossible for a server to route traffic= , with=20 destination a interface on the server itself, to a gateway? If so, do= you maybe=20 have another idea on how I could solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,

Pim

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