Re: balance traffic between virtual interfaces on the same network

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Thanks SNAT is what I was looking for!

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Pascal Hambourg
<pascal.mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Tommaso Calosi a écrit :
>> That's why i wrote "virtual interfaces".
>
> eth0:* are not virtual interfaces, not interfaces at all. They are just
> IPv4 aliases. Virtual interfaces are a different thing : they are "real"
> interfaces (from the network stack point of view) which are just not
> related to real hardware.
>
>> If t's not possibile, then
>> it'd have the same effect to masquerade outgoing connection with a nat
>> pool made by 192.168.1.10, 192.168.1.20 and 192.168.1.30 but since
>> they're originating from the firewall itself, again I don't know how.
>
> You can use SNAT. It does not matter that the traffic originates from
> the box. However your addresses are not contiguous and the support for
> multiple --to-source options was removed long ago, so you'll have to do
> the balance by other means, for example with the statistic match.
>
> Note that it won't balance the source address on a packet basis but on a
> connection basis. So if you have one very active connection and one
> mostly inactive connection, most of the packets will have the same
> source address.
>
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