Hello, for the past couple of days i''ve been banging my head against a wall trying to get this iproute2 issue resolved. the basic scenario is as follows. eth0 - external ip eth1 - internal ip i''m forwarding an external ip to the internal interface at a port that''s responding. i can connect to the internal ip just fine. %telnet 10.x.x.x 25 Trying 10.x.x.x... Connected to xxxx. Escape character is ''^]''. 220 xxxx ESMTP i need a higher port forwarded to port 25 on that machine for a couple of asinine reasons. this is what i see when i tcpdump the eth1 interface without iproute2 rules in place. %telnet 63.x.x.x smtps Trying 63.x.x.x... # tcpdump -i eth1 host 206.x.x.x tcpdump: listening on eth1 13:00:32.048622 206.x.x.x.1325 > 10.x.x.x.smtp: S 3731510172:3731510172(0) win 57344 <mss 1460> (DF) 13:00:35.227581 206.x.x.x.1325 > 10.x.x.x.smtp: S 3731510172:3731510172(0) win 57344 <mss 1460> (DF) 10 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel # tcpdump -i eth0 host 206.x.x.x tcpdump: listening on eth0 13:00:44.621421 10.x.x.x.smtp > 206.x.x.x.1325: S 2172768788:2172768788(0) ack 3731510173 win 5792 <mss 1460,nop,nop,timestamp 33133661 50571017,nop,wscale 0> (DF) 13:00:44.871241 10.x.x.x.smtp > 206.x.x.x.1325: S 2172768788:2172768788(0) ack 3731510173 win 5792 <mss 1460,nop,nop,timestamp 33133686 50571017,nop,wscale 0> (DF) 2 packets received by filter 0 packets dropped by kernel so as you can see without the iproute2 rule, the 10.x.x.x traffic leaves through the 63.x.x.x interface. that''s bad mojo. So i''ve setup some iproute2 tables and rules. Here''s what i''ve setup thus far. # cat /etc/iproute2/rt_tables # # reserved values # 255 local 254 main 253 default 0 unspec # # local # #1 inr.ruhep 100 internal ip route add default via 10.x.x.1 dev eth1 table internal # ip ru show 0: from all lookup local 32765: from 10.x.x.x lookup internal 32766: from all lookup main 32767: from all lookup default so when i add the "ip route add" command and i tcpdump -i eth1 host 206.x.x.x i see zero packets. if i start the connection via telnet, then add the rule, the connection works traffic gets routed correctly... but initiating another connection via telnet only causes the machine to see no traffic when i tcpdump -i eth1. If i remove the rule after that point, it goes back to routing through the wrong interface. it''s quite bizarre and probably something small and silly i''m overlooking... but my eyes aren''t fresh enough anymore. Can someone lend some ideas? http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.html is the main URL i''ve been using as a reference for iproute2. fwiw. my main routing table is as follows. # route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 63.x.x.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 10.x.x.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 10.x.x.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 63.x.x.x 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 -- --- ichi.brown@gmail.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc