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Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Hey, that works very well here -- thanks! |
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> > Been wanting that solution for some time now. |
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> > :) |
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> My apologies! It took some time between reading your message and |
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> replying to it - by which time I had forgotten the finer points. |
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> Whether you set NIC priority in the /etc/conf.d/net file or in a post |
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> up script, the result is the same. One NIC will have a higher |
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> priority than another for ALL connections. This is because NICs do |
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> not do NATing. They will send all packets out to the gateway |
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> (192.168.1.1) and the router at the gateway will determine which |
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> packet is forwarded to the Internet and which to the LAN. So, if you |
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> do not want to prioritise one NIC over another, it may be better to |
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> use iptables to route LAN packets via a particular NIC instead. |
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Great to see this helps someone else as well :) |
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@Mick: I am not sure if I fully understand what you mean. Following the routing |
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table the most specific route will be used, which is not the default route, but |
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the route to the local lan. In this case the metric is important as there are |
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multiple interfaces with the same network. |
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And what do you mean by setting NIC priority (using the metric_eth0 config |
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option?) using /etc/conf.d/net or in a post script? Both have different outcomes |
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it looks to me. |
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Greetings |
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