Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> I was hoping I could do this without dual-homing the linux machine and
> creating an extra subnet, ie that it could sit on the existing subnet, take
> incoming connections and route them back out the same interface to the real
> router. Enabling ip_forward doesn't seem to do this though, presumably
> because there's only one interface? Is there something I can change that
> this will work or is this not possible?
Have you tried adding a sub-interface to the same NIC? eg eth0:0
> I can dual home it if need be, but I'd rather not change the router's ip
> address (or that of the rest of the subnet), so the two interfaces would
> end up on the same subnet. Is that crazy? It seems like the routing table
> can be told which interface to route out via so that will work?
Presuming they have different IP addresses there's nothing crazy about
that.
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