You could do what I did to get satellite working using an aliases address for outgoing stuff
say it's eth0 and eth0:0 so route del default route add default gw 172.24.1.1 dev eth0:0 would do the trick. (well it works on ppp links, I can not see how it wouldn't work on ethernet) On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: > I have a client who has taken up an ADSL connection with Flow Comms and I > am having the devil getting it working correctly. > > ASCII piccy > > Private network 192.168.1.0/24 > | > |-- 192.168.1.20 (234.234.234.235) > eth0| (alias) > ------------------------- > | 192.168.1.1 | > | (234.234.234.234) | > Linux Box | (alias) | > | | > | | > | 172.24.1.2 | > ------------------------- > eth1| > | > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ADSL Service Provider 172.24.1.1 > ? > ? > The world out there > > > The problem is how do I get masquerading to use the 234.234.234.234 > address as if it on the outside interface rather than the 172.24.1.2 > address which is the true interface address. Even if I re-alias the eth1 > interface as 234.234.234.234 instead, it still don't work. > > If I ping from the Linux box to the outside world then nothing happens > because it tries to use the 172.24.1.2 address as the source address and > that doesn't work with the ADSL service provider, but if I force the ping > to use the 234.234.234.234 address as its interface address (with the -I > option) then success. I guess the 172.24.x.y address are only there just > so that the modem and the DSLAM have an address each. > > Basically I need the 172.24.1.1 address to be the default gateway, but I > always want the Linux Box to say that its interface address to that > default gateway is 234.234.234.234 for the purposes of pinging and > masquerading. > > Any ideas? > > -- > Howard. > LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people > Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug