[plug] Prevent Gateway from redirecting

Adam Hewitt ahewitt at ursys.com.au
Sun Dec 31 10:57:16 WST 2006


On 30/12/2006, at 9:16 AM, Timothy White wrote:

> The reason being is while I want certain traffic forced through the
> gateway, I don't want all traffic forced through the gateway. All
> realtime traffic (VoIP for example) is more than welcome to take the
> shortest hop. To me, it makes most sense for VoIP to do this, as it's
> directly connected to the ADSL modem's switch. Otherwise, if I forced
> it through the gateway, it's packets would go to the switch, to
> another switch, to the gateway, back to the switch, back to the
> original switch, and then out.

But if you had the connection between the linux gateway and the  
router on a different subnet, then the VoIP would sit on that subnet  
and would have nothing to do with the linux box.

internet <--> modem <-192.168.0.0/24-> linuxbox
                               
|                                                  |
                    VoIP/Other                                    
Internal (10.0.0.0/24)


Adam.




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