LARTC - Feb 2001 - tables and mapping marked packets to realms

Looking at the HOWTO for iproute2 isee examples where they create a rule
and make a look up table (the John example). I have installed iproute2
but don''t seem to have a:

/etc/rt_tables/ path.

Why?

I want to map marked packets(using iptables) to realms and all packets
within a realm to have the same route regardless of destination. 

What if two marked packets have the same destination ?

Thanks for any help

Greg.
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Gregory OSINAIKE (ee9829@elec.qmw.ac.uk)
Electronic Engineering Department
Queen Mary and Westfield College

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Gregory OSINAIKE wrote:
> Looking at the HOWTO for iproute2 isee examples where they create a rule
> and make a look up table (the John example). I have installed iproute2
> but don''t seem to have a:
>
> /etc/rt_tables/ path.
>
> Why?
Because you didn''t make the directory and didn''t put the
example files
there. That''s all there is to making one.
> I want to map marked packets(using iptables) to realms and all packets
> within a realm to have the same route regardless of destination.
>
> What if two marked packets have the same destination ?
You can select policy rules based solely on marks, thereby disregarding
destination until a certain routing policy has been chosen. Two differently
marked packets with the same destination can still be routed differently.

Doei, Arthur.

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