On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 9:54 AM, mayak-cq <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi again,
>
> i am now wondering why it is necessary to have gateway defined in the
> WAN interface ...
>

Because that's what determines for NAT purposes whether something is
treated as a WAN.


> if in the gateway definition, a gateway is flagged as the default, that
> should be enough, no?
>

That's where your Internet traffic that doesn't match policy routing goes.


> what appears to be happening is that policy routes as defined in LAN
> rules are being overwritten by the gateway as defined in the WAN
> interface.
>

It does not, policy routing rules override the system routing table.

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