Once upon a time, Tom Sightler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 18:12 -0600, Ed Brown wrote:
> > My basic contention here is that policy routing is for routers.  It 
> > can't help Daniel, it can't help anyone with multi-homed server 
> > routing issues.  Am I wrong?
> 
> Yes, you are wrong.  It works just fine even on multi-homed servers that
> do not route and is quite easy to prove.

I think the confusion is the difference between "router" and "routing".
Basically, all IP devices have a routing table and use it to route
outbound packets.  The only difference between hosts and routers is that
hosts only route locally generated packets out, while routers also route
packets they receive back out (i.e. forwarding).

Any IP device can use complex routing decisions (e.g. policy routing) to
route outbound packets; the more interfaces a device has, the more
complex the routing can become.

-- 
Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.

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