(Forwarded to the list because I can't properly operate a MUA--maybe they'll take away my license to read email someday.) Tomas, Perhaps you want a summary of how the kernel makes a routing decision? See my description of the route selection process: http://plorf.net/linux-ip/html/routing-selection.htm I'm not sure you need policy routing though... If network B is reachable from network A, and the router for network B is directly connected to network A but is not the default gateway, you'll have something sort of like this: network-C via router-B network-B via router-B network-A dev ethX default via default-gw Is this your configuration? If so, then you need no policy routing. -Martin On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, Tomas Bonnedahl wrote: : hello, a simple question; on a router, if I want network A to be routed : to network C that goes through network B, using policy routing, do i : need to specify a route to network B also, or could i just have routes : to A and C in the routing table? : : the reason that im asking is because i dont know how the ip utility : uses the main table together with antoher table. if i didnt use policy : routing, just "regular", this would not work, but perhaps if not : finding a route to network B, it checks the main table? : : : please enlighten me. : : regards, : : tomas bonnedahl : _______________________________________________ : LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl : http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ : -- Martin A. Brown --- SecurePipe, Inc. --- mabrown@securepipe.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
