Kostas Flokos wrote:
Hi all,
I have managed to setup a Fedora 7 box with 3 ethernet cards and two
ADSL modem/routers from different suppliers as LARTC recommends. I am
able to direct traffic for specific internal IPs either to one or the
other ADSL line. However, I am faced with two problems I am struggling
for the solution:
1. I have opened a few ports on the ADSL router/firewalls to talk to
internal hosts; say when someone hits http://myADSL1_IP I would redirect
him to 192.168.0.10 <http://192.168.0.10>; while if someone hits
http://myADSL2_IP I would redirect him to 192.168.0.20
<http://192.168.0.20>.
This is your ADSL router(s) config.
If I have rules such as the following all works well:
ip rule add from 192.168.0.10 <http://192.168.0.10> table ADSL1_rules
ip rule add from 192.168.0.20 <http://192.168.0.20> table ADSL2_rules
These are rules on your linux machine to send traffic back on the same
link they came from.
Unfortunately, if I want to do the reverse it does not work. I can't
have a host prefer one ADSL line, but still receive traffic from the
other ADSL line.
This can be done by switching the rule table above. Obviously NAT is
being used. However, this will break. You cannot initiate a connection
to one IP and match the reply or ack for that connection from another
IP. TCP/IP basics. Assymetric routing works when no address translations
take place.
It may sound weird, but I only want to have one host
reply to any of the two IPs, either from ISP1 or ISP2. With the current
configuration I can't. It works ok the default ISP of the host, but
can't make it to work for the other.
One way of doing this would be:
1. Set the routers to bridge mode.
2. Assign the ISP IPs to the NICs.
3. Source NAT rules use ISP1_IP and routing rule redirects it to link
connected to ISP2. Flip similarly for ISP1.
Let us hope your ISP2 does not filter out traffic having source outside
his subnet when it arrives from within.
Mohan
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