On 7/21/10 4:11 PM, Stephen Brown wrote:
> Well my requirements have changed. Due to multiple attempts to get
> things working and the limitation of not being able to use a dhcp
> assigned address as a fallback provider, and not to mention an angry
> wife for the internet being up and down (I've GOT to keep her happy at
> all costs.... lol), I've come up with the following scenario instead:
>  
> - keep the DSL on eth0 as it is now
> - assign eth2 to the NAT'ed side of a wireless router so that way there
> when I'm playing my wife will still have access to the internet without
> remorse (via wireless)
> - my theory is that I will be able to then use eth2 as a fallback in the
> event the DSL fails for any reason, as well as assign particular traffic
> to route over this link

Yep.

>  
> So with that being said, does Shorewall care if the fallback interface
> is a non-routable address (such as 192.x.x.x, 172.x.x.x, 10.x.x.x)? My
> first guess would be no, because it's simply just going to route it to
> the gateway you provide (which will be that of the wireless router in
> this scenario)

Not in the least. In fact, I did something similar while I was getting
Comcast Business Class set up. Wife was only moderately happy, however,
since we run our own mail server which was behind the Shorewall box :-)

-Tom
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Shoreline,         \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like
Washington, USA     \ all of the passengers in his car
http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________

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