Re: IP stack question (how to force pkts to not route locally, but go out interfaces regardless of destination)

["James R. Leu" <jleu@mindspring.com>]

Hello,

How about changing the preference of the 'local' table (kernel change required)
and inserting a new table (via iptables) that had rules like 
"if src is local, and dest = 192.168.1.1 then send out eth0"

Jim

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 11:25:58PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> jamal wrote:
> > Ben Wrote:
> >>I would actually like to be able to force a machine to not do local
> >>routing as well, and force packets out over an interface even if
> >>the destination is a local IP,  using source-based-routing,
> >>or something similar.  There is no way to do this currently?
> >>
> > 
> > 
> > Try that SO_DONTROUTE and see if solves your problem; you probably have to
> > bind the socket to a specific device as well;
> > For all that trouble, i would suggest you may just as well write a sock
> > packet based  app.
> 
> I am back to trying to figure out how to make this work.  I'm tried source
> based routing, and it does not work (it routes internally).
> 
> I read the help on SO_DONTROUTE, but it seems to make the kernel not able
> to send to a router.  I would like to be able to route, ie port a -> router -> port b
> 
> I already bind to a particular port and IP, and use policy based routing
> (source based routing) to make sure the packet is sent out the correct
> local interface.
> 
> I just need to find the routing logic that notices the destination IP is local
> and tell it to quit looking (probably for a particular socket, as I can
> see how this could break applications who didn't expect it)
> 
> I dug through the code once before looking for this, and didn't find
> what I needed.  Can anyone suggest the right files and/or methods to
> look in?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> > 
> > cheers,
> > jamal
> > 
> 
> 
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