gedankensplitter/linux_routing.md

Linux routing things

same interface reply

https://gmelikov.com/2018/02/27/linux-network-reply-interface-incoming/

Long story short: local corporate server have 2 interfaces:

1. Public Internet IP address (eth0)
2. Local network IP address (eth1)

By default Linux tries to reply on interface with default route (eth0 in this case), even if request came from different iface (eth1). Let’s fix it. We need to create an ip rule with IP adresses table and configure it for all interfaces:

echo 200 reth0 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
echo 201 reth1 >> /etc/iproute2/rt_tables
ip rule add from <ip address of eth0> table reth0
ip route add default via <gateway of eth0> dev eth0 table reth0
ip rule add from <ip address of eth1> table reth1
ip route add default via <gateway of eth1> dev eth1 table reth1