On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 05:23 +0000, Chaitanya Shastri wrote
,
>   As I have mentioned before, I had two internet zones defined
> seperately: inet1 and inet2. I wanted to route some traffic using
> provider B i.e. using inet2 and all other traffic using provider A. 
> According to Tom, I should use only one zone name for internet zone
> i.e. inet and use the route_rules file and the 'balance' option in
> providers file to be able to use both the providers simultaneously.
> I had a question:  If I write a rule in route_rules file, should that
> also be present in the rules file?

Routing (including route_rules) simply tells packets where to go. Rules
and Policies determine if they are allowed to go there.

-Tom
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