Subject: Re: ipf fastroute next-hop?
To: None <tech-net@netbsd.org>
From: Greg A. Woods <woods@weird.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 04/22/2002 13:37:00
[ On Monday, April 22, 2002 at 11:46:43 (+1000), Darren Reed wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ipf fastroute next-hop?
>
> In some email I received from der Mouse, sie wrote:
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > When using ipf's "fastroute" option to redirect a packet out an
> > interface, what controls the next-hop address used?
> >
> > For example, if I do
> >
> > pass out quick fastroute le1 on le0 from 10.0.0.0/8 to any
> >
> > to redirect all traffic that would normally go out le0, but which comes
> > from 10/8, out le1 instead, how do I control the next-hop gateway
> > address used when sending the packet out le1? (For example, if the arp
> > table for le1 is empty, what controls what address will be arped for?)
>
> pass out quick on le0 to le1:ne.xt.h.op from 10.0.0.0/8 to any
hmmmm.... thanks for the hint! I had thought that only worked for
"dup-to" (and that's the only place it's semi-documented :-)
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