On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter wrote:
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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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How??

--
Nilesh Govindarajan
http://nileshgr.com

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