net.add_addr_allfibs - alternative usecases
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Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2021 07:33:15 UTC
Hello. First of all, I came here not to agitate for any change, I want to understand how my configuration is inefficient and how I can do that better. I have two outgoing interfaces, if0 and if0. Those are different internet providers, I even get ipv6 through second one, and that's nice. I want to automatically fallback to the interface that is working in case of outage. Also, I want some traffic only on one of those interfaces. So I got 3 fibs: fib 0: default route fib 1: default route is if0 fib 2: default route is if1 Fibs 1-2 are used for traffic that should only pass through exactly that interface. Traffic pinning is done with PF: pass out on $outside2 inet from ($outside2) queue(in_std2, in_priv2) modulate state rtable 2 For example, I can test connectivity to both sides via: setfib 1 ping -qc 5 8.8.8.8 setfib 2 ping -qc 5 8.8.8.8 And in case one of them doesn't work I can switch to other one by changing routing on fib 0. Everything seems to work fine with net.add_addr_allfibs enabled. But once it was disabled I started wondering whether I'm using the right tools to solve my problem, or this can be done easier. Disabling net.add_addr_allfibs means that only assigned interface will provide default route for correspondent fib, and you can't manually add them to the other fib. Or maybe I got that part totally wrong? Thanks in advance, any bit of knowledge would be appreciated. -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.