Re: same interface Route Cache

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:28:25 -0600 (CST), Nick Rogness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>       Packet 1 comes in through ISP #2 network.  It comes into your
>       internal network to machine 1.  Machine 1 replies to the
>       packet...but where does it go?  It will exit through interface 
>       to ISP #1 because of the default gateway.  It came in ISP #2 and
>       left out ISP #1.  There is your problem.

That's the way Internet routing is supposed to work.  If your routing
table says a packet supposed to go one way, and it really needs to go
another way, that's *user error* -- if you misconfigure your routing,
FreeBSD will do what you ask it to; it can't read your mind!

-GAWollman


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