On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 05:15:44PM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 30 April 2015 at 15:51, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
The above is perfectly normal isn't it? It's not a 'mod' allowing multiple WANs, it's simply a (fairly complicated) routing table in 192.168.1.1 which sends packets out to different external connections.
OK, but if so then why do all the router distros assume you have a separate physical network interface for each WAN? Adding in multiple gateways without having them all on different ports should be no more complicated than having them on separate ports (the hard bit is in the load balanced routing, which applies in any case).
Probably on the grounds that it's more secure and a lot of the distros are trying to be decent firewalls out of the box. If you're mixing and matching outbounds on the same interface then one mistake in your routing table and things can be going the wrong way. Or there's the potential for cleverly crafted packets to goes places they shouldn't.
J.