Re: Do Routing-policies have effect on local-originated packets?

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
17 Dec 1999 19:45:38 +0100


sky@real-linux.de (Florian Heinz) writes:

> Hello all,
>
> In linux/Documentation/networking/policy-routing.txt theres an
> "Important Note" from AK about a compiletime-switch which should do
> exactly what I need... unfortunately this note seems to be outdated, at
> least I couldn't find it in route.c
> So what's the current status, are locally originated packets
> policy-routed or aren't they, and if they aren't is there a way to

They are.

> change this behaviour?

You could define separate routing tables for local and remote and
use appropiate rules to redirect the packets to the right table.

-Andi

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