On Wed, 21 Apr 1999, Cary O'Brien wrote:
> People have been kicking this around for a while. We have one customer
> who (we hope!) will be dialing out to hundreds of sites using a CISCO RAS.
> It would be nice if diald could grab all packets destined for a subnet
> (a big 10.x one), then slice the ip address up and figure out how to
> start up a pppd to dial that one remote site and route traffic for that
> site out the ppp connection. But I'm not sure where to start.
It's on the, ah, "list". My current corner of envelope says
to encapsulate the stuff specific to a link so that there
can be more than one link in a diald instance and to use a
list of firewall rules to direct a proxied packet to a link
(much like we use them to assign a link up time). Using firewall
rules rather than "classic" routing makes it instantly support
non-IP protocols and lets you do neat stuff like having more
"important" traffic cause a "better" link to be brought up,
possibly taking over from a cheaper 'n cheerfuller link
previously in use. That's as far as it goes so far. It was
a small envelope to start with :-).
Mike
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