Re: [LARTC] routing for split multiple uplinks/providers with port forwarding

2003-11-13 Thread Martin A. Brown
Ian, : It doesn't work as given for connections that are port forwarded from : the Linux router to machines inside the local network (e.g. to a web : server). True, the multiple uplinks is for exactly that, uplinks! Or, in other words, outbound connectivity, only. : With port forwarding in

Re: [LARTC] routing for split multiple uplinks/providers with port forwarding

2003-11-12 Thread Damion de Soto
Ian! D. Allen wrote: I suspect the fix is somehow to mark the port forwarded packets with a flag indicating on which interface they arrived at the Linux router, and then preserve this flag into the answer packets on the web server. On the Linux router I can then make sure that appropriately flagged

[LARTC] routing for split multiple uplinks/providers with port forwarding

2003-11-12 Thread Ian! D. Allen
The fine document: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html works nicely to make sure that answers to packets incoming to the Linux router from a particular provider go back out again over the same provider. It doesn't work as given for connections that are port forwarded from the

[LARTC] routing for split multiple uplinks/providers with port forwarding

2003-11-01 Thread Ian! D. Allen
The fine document: http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html works nicely to make sure that answers to packets incoming to the Linux router from a particular provider go back out again over the same provider. It doesn't work as given for connections that are port forwarded from the