On Friday 02 April 2004 10:36 pm, John A. Sullivan III wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-02 at 15:57, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> >
> > All I want to do is send packets out the interface which matches the
> > source IP, and I don't think there's any reasonable way to get there
> > without patches or BSD.
>
> Hmmm . . . I admit to not having tried this and only giving it five
> minute's thought but I'm not sure I see the problem. Well, I see why
> one can't be guaranteed to send the packet out the same interface but
> I'm not sure why that is a problem.
Some ISPs block packets with source addresses not matching their own network
range, as a contribution to blocking spoofed packets.
> In the case of an interface or ISP failure, I assume you would disable
> the interface which would eliminate the route.
That's not necessarily a difficult task (bringing it back up again afterwards
is not entirely trivial, however), but if the problem can be solved without
sending all outbound traffic across a single connection, and leaving the
other one largely idle, it would be a better solution.
Regards,
Antony.
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