On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:29 -0500, Chris Adams wrote: > 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).
Right, I thought I said this earlier, although perhaps not clearly. The route tables are still used for routing decisions of locally generated packets. Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
