dhcpcd-discuss

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 19:39 +0200, nivwiz@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I am using dhcpcd to manage ppp0 and eth0.
> how can I achieve source level routing from eth0, so communication
> coming in to eth0 will be sent out using eth0 and not ppp0?
> # ip ro
> 98.158.112.57 via 84.109.112.1 dev eth0 
> 98.158.117.129 dev ppp0  proto kernel  scope link  src b.b.b.b 
> 192.168.14.0/24 dev br0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.14.70 
> 84.109.112.0/22 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src a.a.a.a
> metric 203 
> 127.0.0.0/8 via 127.0.0.1 dev lo 
> default via 98.158.117.129 dev ppp0 
> default via 84.109.112.1 dev eth0  metric 203 
> 
> I am asking that traffic that comes in via a.a.a.a will leave from
> that device 

Generally it will. However, in the event the traffic causes an
application to open a new port on the remote client then it will go over
ppp0 as that kernel route takes precedence.

I have no idea how to instruct otherwise and really that is outside the
scope of this discussion list. Maybe contact your distribution for help?

Thanks

Roy