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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@riverviewtech.net>
To: Mail List - Netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Route packets by source IP
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:19:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E1836C.7050707@riverviewtech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43cba8b55bae94158c0580f06e368ea4@localhost>

On 03/19/08 13:21, Franck JONCOURT wrote:
> This is perhaps not a good way to do, but I was thinking about using 
> the __ip route__ command.
> 
> ip route add 192.168.2.0/24 via 192.168.0.2
> 
> where 192.168.2.0/24 would be the B1 network and 192.168.0.2 would be 
> the B2 ip address.
> 
> Is that wrong ?

"ip route" routes traffic based on destination IP address not 
necessarily the network that it would pass through to get there.  So if 
you have traffic headed to my web server, you can not use "ip route" to 
get it there with out specifying my servers IP address / subnet in the 
ip route command.



Grant. . . .

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-19 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-18 12:01 Route packets by source IP Steffen Heil
2008-03-18 14:18 ` Grant Taylor
2008-03-19 18:21   ` Franck JONCOURT
2008-03-19 21:19     ` Grant Taylor [this message]
2008-03-19 22:03       ` Steffen Heil
2008-03-20  0:02         ` Grant Taylor
2008-03-20  0:30           ` Steffen Heil
2008-03-20 14:42             ` Grant Taylor

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