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On 12/18/2012 09:14 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 December 2012 10:39:43 PM IST, Kevin Brandstatter
> wrote: 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
>> 
> 
> How??
> 
> -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
> 

with the route add command.
obviously not as clean as an iptables forward rule which is also an option
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