On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Joel Kleppinger wrote: > Ramin, you are my hero. Not to rain on Ramin's parade, but there *have* been posts on this very subject on this very mailinglist for which the archives can actually be found at http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/ and in which archives the relevant posts are http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2000q4/000091.html http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2000q4/000092.html http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2000q4/000153.html http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2000q4/000156.html > I've spent the last 6+ months off and on trying to figure this little > problem out and then within an hour of posting the question to this mailing > list, you respond with what I needed. Isn't the internet great? Now to find someone to fix the light-metering system in my old Canonet 28... :) > I compiled iproute2 > then did the two ip lines described in that little HOWTO: > ip ru add from my.DSL.ip.x lookup 4 > ip ro add 0.0.0.0/0 via my.DSL.ISP.gateway table 4 > And it worked. Too sweet. Ah, yes, that would be the minimal code to make these things work. The posts from the archive mentioned above are somewhat more complete... :) > Now to figure out exactly what that did, how to manipulate it for different > situations, and see what security implications that might have opened up > (since the box is supposed to be theoretically considered a "firewall"). In other words: time to read the manual. Which, admittedly, is not easy. Good luck, and may the routing gods be with you. Doei, Arthur. -- /\ / | arthurvl@xxxxxxxxxx | Work like you don't need the money /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching