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On 12/18/2012 05:27 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 03:41:44 PM IST, J. Roeleveld wrote:
>> On Tue, December 18, 2012 04:44, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
>> 
>> <SNIP>
>> 
>>> Actually my fiber connection has a smaller limit than the ADSL 
>>> connection. I am trying to use the fiber connection for all
>>> activities except some torrent downloading for which I want to
>>> use my ADSL connection. Once I'm able to route through the ADSL
>>> gateway, it would be easy for me to setup another ip on eth0 on
>>> my machine on which transmission could listen. All traffic on
>>> that ip would be routed through ADSL and otherwise the fiber.
>> 
>> Nilesh,
>> 
>> I read that you managed to fix it, but for completenes and, if
>> applicable, a different solution would be a router with 2 or more
>> WAN-ports that can do the routing for you. Added benefit there
>> would be that if the fiber connection dies, it would be able to
>> automatically route everything through the ADSL.
>> 
>> -- Joost
>> 
>> 
> 
> Yeah that solution is always there, but I'm not going for that
> since I'm evaluating the fiber connection (a new ISP in my
> locality). Won't need the ADSL may be after a month or so when I'll
> have unlimited plan on fiber.
> 
> @Pandu, or may be the DSL ISP was down yesterday when I was
> trying.
> 
> The problem is not exactly fixed yet, although I'm able to add
> static routes on the DDWRT router using route command (and it is
> working), there's no way to route all traffic from a source via the
> other router. It doesn't have iptables ROUTE target neither
> iproute2 support.. is there some other method do to this using
> iptables?
> 
> The whole problem would be solved if I could add routes on my local
>  machine, but that doesn't seem to work. It always goes via fiber
> which is the default route.
> 
> The final solution to this problem would be putting in a Linux
> machine there. I'm trying to build Gentoo for the Raspberry Pi
> which can be used for this task, but stuck at Python since it won't
> cross compile. Anyway that's another topic.
> 
> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
> 
you actually can add routes on a local machine. the real trick would
be to have them pushed from the dd-wrt box so that they dont have to
be manually set each time

- -Kevin
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