Re: A smart router for more than one default routes

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On 27.02.2015 06:58, Han Changzhe wrote:
> Thanks Dave! Please see below.
> 
> Changzhe
> 
> On 2015-02-26 15:30, Dave Taht wrote:
>> This is not really the best place for a routing question. If you raise
>> your question on the quagga list, you might be better off.
>>
> 
> I couldn't find a better place for the question and thought guys in LARTC
> should be professional enough to help. And thanks for your suggestion on
> the quagga list! I'll try it.
> 
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:39 PM, Han Changzhe <hcz@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hello experts,
>>>
>>> I'm setting up a routing server on Linux with following links
>>>
>>> 1. An Ethernet link (eth0) to the 1st internet link (fast, but can't
>>>     access some sites);
>>> 2. A VPN link (tun0) to provide services to local users;
>>> 3. A VPN link (tun1) to a proxy server as the 2nd internet link (slow,
>>>     free).
>>>
>>> My target is:
>>>    * for common internet access, routing the packets through eth0;
>>>    * for the sites can't be accessed through eth0, routing them
>>> through tun1.
>> Well, one of the things we have been working on in the homenet working
>> group is
>> source specific routing, which could possibly help here, but it is
>> non-deterministic.
> 
> As for the project you mentioned, are there any public materials for me
> to follow up?
> 
> 
>>> By now, I set the routing table manually for serveral sites and it works
>>> fine. Because there are thousands of them and the sites change with
>>> time, so
>>> I want a better solution.
>>>
>>> My idea is like this: setting up more than one default routes for
>>> internet
>>> access, then dynamically change the route table (or route table
>>> cache) with
>>> some software according to the internet access results.
>>>
>>> For example, if we get a timeout from https://www.google.com through
>>> eth0,
>>> the software should try it through tun1 link and, when succeed,
>>> adding the
>>> later route to current route table.
>> Well you are conflating several layers of the protocol here.
>>
>> It is hard to recognise a timeout, for example, without sniffing for
>> syns/syn_acks
>> on the gateway. That sniffer could simultaneously try a syn out one of
>> the vpn interfaces and if a syn/ack is not received from the main
>> interface, and one IS received from the vpn, insert a route for it.
> Yes, a sniffer like that should work. Is it possible to allow the kernel
> to raise an exception when TCP connection time-out happens so users can
> handle the exception with the hock to try the vpn interface and manipulate
> the route table?

You could potentially use the -E option of the conntrack-tools to listen
to these kinds of events:
http://conntrack-tools.netfilter.org/conntrack.html

Regards,
  Dennis

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