On 11/15/2010 11:16 AM, Tom Eastep wrote:
>
>> That was the fix, thank you.  I had turned off USE_DEFAULT_RT so that 
>> systems on
>> the PROC (industrial) side of the network would have no knowledge of the 
>> routes
>> on the CORP (business) side.
> How would they get this knowledge? If your firewall rules prohibit such
> traffic, why does the existence of these routes matter?

They would get this knowledge by hitting the "main" table before the CORP or 
PROC tables if the routing was in "main".

As for why... Efficiency?  Because some of these IPs are accessible when routed 
via the Internet and they are not allowed via the corporate side?

That's why I asked...

Is there any harm or advantage in using route_rules to accomplish the same
thing?  ie, instead of having the corporate routes in route-eth1.2 so that they
end up in the main table?

Is there an additional processing cost for the router?

Perhaps I am not understanding the flow.  Does it work like...

0: from all lookup 255
999: from all lookup main
1000: from all iif eth1.2 lookup CORP
1000: from all iif eth1.3 lookup CORP

1000: from all iif eth1.4 lookup WRLS

^ The packet arrived via eth1.4 destined for 198.162.160.xxx and Table WRLS: 
says

204.244.116.190 dev eth0 scope link src 204.244.116.180
default via 204.244.116.190 dev eth0 src 204.244.116.180

^ so send it out via the default

1000: from all iif eth1.5 lookup WRLS
1001: from all to 198.162.160.0/19 lookup CORP

^ Never getting here

Which would mean adding any additional routing beyond the default is redundant. 
 
(If the defaults cover it)  Am I getting it?

Thanks for your patience.

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