multihomed gateway

[Ezequiel O. Block]

Boris Samorodov wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:10:10 -0300 Ezequiel O. Block wrote:
> 
>>Boris Samorodov wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:15:40 -0300 Ezequiel O. Block wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I'm currently running mpd as a PPPoe server, serving 250~ users with
>>>>no problems so far, what I need now is to add another ip pool range
>>>
>>>>from another provider, which means I need to handle two default
>>>
>>>>gateways, one for each C class network. but it seems that FreeBSD
>>>>cann't have two defaultrouter="" directives in rc.conf ... i have
>>>>googled about it and couldn't find any solution .. anyone here have
>>>>had this issue before? any clue?
>>>
>>>Maybe ipfw fwd action should fit your needs.
> 
> 
>>mmm I forgot to tell that each client pc gets a public ip address,
>>such as 200.43.83.x and the server does proxy arp on them, do you
>>think ipfw would be useful in this case?
> 
> 
> Proxyarp is acting at receiving packets from internet while forwarding
> takes place at sending packets. Seems that proxyarp is not an issue
> here.
> 
> 
> WBR

You are right Boris, thanks for the info.

Ezequiel.