[LARTC] Multi default gateway and 2.4.30

[Alexander Samad]

On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 08:04:18AM +1000, Alexander Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have just moved my firewall from a 2.6 debian machine to a 2.4.30
> openwrt (linksys wrt54gs) box.
> 
> I orginially had this working with 2 isp, 1 cable 1 adsl and dyndns.
> 
> Now when i have moved to 2.4.30 I am having problems.  Everything else
> is working fine except when I DNAT packets from the firewall to an
> internal address, ie my web browser is inside so I DNAT from the
> external IP  to the internal web server.
> 
> now I am getting time outs, upon investigation what is happening is that
> packets are coming in, getting DNAT'ed, the web server is returning
> them, they get un DNAT, but a new call to the routing table is made and
> it seems to bypass the ip rules rules I have, all traffic that
> terminates on the external IP is okay and doesn't suffer from the
> problem.
> 
> I remember reading about patches for the iproute and the kernel but I
> haven't kept up to date with those since I started using 2.6
> 
> Am i missing a patch ??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 

Had anothe look through the archives, via google and found a thread
about 2.4.29 and the fact that the default routes shouldn't be in the
main table.

I have removed the default routes and placed them in the default table
and things seem to be okay now.

Is this a know problem ????


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