Linux Source Routing - help please

[TheExcession]

Before I post all the details of the problem can anyone help me out with source routing on Linux?

iptables and all that?

thanks

[zumbruk]

You should disable source routing, really.

Also, the system decides where it is going to route a packet before it applies the firewall rules, so source routing doesn't really have anything to do with iptables.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Solaris geek, not a Linux one, but I'll help if I can.)

[TheExcession]

zumbruk said:

You should disable source routing, really. Also, the system decides where it is going to route a packet before it applies the firewall rules, so source routing doesn't really have anything to do with iptables. (Disclaimer: I'm a Solaris geek, not a Linux one, but I'll help if I can.)

Thanks - I've got it sorted now.

It's on a private lab network anyway - we are intiating multiple PPPoE sessions from a Linux box out through a Satellite Segmnet Simulator. Problem was getting packets back from the remote end via the PPPoE link and not just across the LAN.

cheers