On Wednesday 30 January 2002 19:04, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:43:07PM -0800, Mark Bigler wrote:
> > I'd sure think that pf would do
> > all they want and more.
> >
> > > > We have a box that acts as our uber router that will have a
> > > > wireless nic, wired nic, nic for the dsl, and nic for the
> > > > cable. It will be doing nat/firewall and dhcp.  Thats about it.
> > > >  Is there anyway to tell
> > > > the machine to send all packets on ports 21 and 80 through the
> > > > cable and everything else through the DSL?
>
> You mean like this?
>
>   cable        dsl
>  ports \      / all other
>  21,80  router  ports
>
>           net
>
> I don't think it's possible with pf.  The kernel would have to
> route by port to route the packet through the right NIC.
>
> That's not what NAT does.  It changes the source and/or destination
> IP address.  Sure, it can do this selectively by port, but that's
> not the same thing.

You're right.  My mistake.  I was thinking the packet filter might be 
able to "route" packets using the port field.

> It may be possible with NAT and ALTQ combined, but I haven't looked
> much at what ALTQ is capable of.
>
> These types of ideas come up with some frequency on the
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ml -> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc

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