On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 03:20 PM, Don Bowman wrote:
You can't have more than one default route, but you certainly can have several static or dynamic routes to select the appropriate router to send responses back. You could also look into policy-based routing or multihoming the connections, but I guess that depends on what you're doing.What's happening is I have >1 router feeding me sessions which I'm transparently proxying (e.g. squid). Obviously I can't have a default route back to each of them.So I have something like: [Router1]---\ \ [Router2]--------[BSD] / [Router3]---/ This is done with a layer-2 mac rewrite, ie the router takes the packet, doesn't modify the IP header, but changes the destination MAC to be that of the BSD machine.
> I can't make the route be one of those routers,
> and the routing tables are too complicated to install (since there
> may be BGP on the left of them, etc, etc). Its important for
> me the response packets go back through the same path (to avoid
> reordering etc).
What happens if incoming traffic comes via more than one router at a time-- how should your system decide which path to send replies back? Based on the source IP?
-Chuck
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