On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 around 10:04:23 -0500, Christopher Friesen wrote:
> Jeremy Domingue wrote:
> May I ask why you want to send it via the router when the box has a
> direct path to each subnet? Since the box knows that it is connected to
> both networks, it will try and send out over the shortest path to the
> destination. In this case, the default rule would be to send it out
> over the NIC already on that network and bypass the router completely.
[To drop in]
Oh, I have a nice example of that, we have a few machines on the LAN
which must be rate-limited on some services. The cisco router does a
nice job for that. However a customer is connected through a switch
and we would very much like to force him through the router also...
Same net, but please use the router :)
Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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