At 01:13 26/02/01 +0100, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
>IP Stacks will remeber the IP Address of a incoming request and use it as
>the outgoing source for TCP Conections. Therefore you can have a policy (aka
>source) based routing to decide which outgoing NIC to use. In that case you
>have two default routes and the decision which one is used is done by source
>ip.
Once again, this doesn't work:)
At the time the OS needs to send a reply, it needs to know to which gateway to
send the packet. The only available info is the client's IP address, and
it's not sufficient.
If the NIC was saved, that may help, but it is not.
cheers,
mouss
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