Hi! I have many problems getting this thing to work. There's a host with two network interfaces, where there are two routers to Internet in two separated networks. The host uses multihop routing for deciding to which router send the packets... but the routing decision is wrong made. Some packets with source address of one NIC, go to other network. I have a host with three NICs in it: eth0 - LAN, 192.168.0.0/20 eth1 192.168.16.1 - subnetwork 192.168.16.0/28, with a router (192.168.16.2) to internet eth2 192.168.17.1 - subnetwork 192.168.17.0/28, with another router (192.168.17.2) to internet The routing rules are: 0: from all lookup local 50: from all lookup main 201: from 192.168.17.0/28 iif eth2 lookup 201 202: from 192.168.16.0/28 iif eth1 lookup 202 222: from all lookup 222 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default The table 'main': 192.168.17.0/28 dev eth2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.17.1 192.168.16.0/28 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.16.1 192.168.0.0/20 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.2 The table '201': default via 192.168.17.2 dev eth2 proto static src 192.168.17.1 prohibit default proto static metric 1 The table '202': default via 192.168.16.2 dev eth1 proto static src 192.168.16.1 prohibit default proto static metric 1 The table '222', where there is the multihop gateway specification: default equalize nexthop via 192.168.16.2 dev eth1 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.17.2 dev eth2 weight 1 I've added the following packet LOG lines into 'mangle' table, for knowing when the "WRONG INTERFACE" decision is being made: Chain POSTROUTING (policy ACCEPT 329K packets, 93M bytes) pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination 2 80 LOG all -- any eth1 192.168.17.1 anywhere LOG level warning ip-options prefix `WRONG IFACE: ' 0 0 LOG all -- any eth2 192.168.16.1 anywhere LOG level warning ip-options prefix `WRONG IFACE: ' (Don't look at counters; right now, for getting good internet access, I'm not using multihop) So, often appears in the kernel log, specially with 'ftp' and 'ssh' connections (and rarely with www connections): Jul 4 15:50:14 thecrow WRONG IFACE: IN= OUT=eth2 SRC=192.168.16.1 DST=216.165.191.52 LE N=72 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=9582 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=56528 DPT=6667 WINDOW=18824 RES= 0x00 ACK PSH URGP=0 Jul 4 16:01:29 thecrow WRONG IFACE: IN= OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.17.1 DST=130.206.1.5 LEN=40 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=66 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=33820 DPT=21 WINDOW=0 RES=0x00 RST URGP=0 Even though, when I use 'tcpdump' for catching the wrong packets (that is: tcpdump -i eth1 host 192.168.17.1 _or_ tcpdump -i eth2 host 192.168.16.1 ) results that _A LOT MORE PACKETS_ are BADLY ROUTED, than sent to the LOG target. My conclusion: iptables 'matching' doesn't work; also does the route decision part. I absolutely don't know what more to do... I'm running iptables v1.2.11, and kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r11. Exactly same happened with kernel 2.4.28-gentoo. :( For example, here is a test. I want to ftp to "ftp.rediris.es". I look which would be the route: # ip route get 130.206.1.5 130.206.1.5 via 192.168.17.2 dev eth2 src 192.168.17.1 cache mtu 1500 advmss 1460 metric10 64 I try the ftp: # ftp ftp.rediris.es And in the kernel log appears: Jul 4 16:19:25 thecrow WRONG IFACE: IN= OUT=eth1 SRC=192.168.17.1 DST=130.206.1.5 LEN=60 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=43245 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=49828 DPT=21 WINDOW=5840 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0 Please, help... I'm desperate.