Re: routing routable IPs over non-routable IPs
Yes, many people do it with ciscos all the time, linux should be no
different. However, there are a couple of downsides (speaking from cisco
experience only)
It hurts for troubleshooting... you cant trace/ping directly to an
interface, only a net...
On Mon, 21 May 2001, Jeremy Lunn wrote:
> I know this isn't Debian specific. But I'm just wondering if it's fine
> to route routable IP addresses over non-routable IP addresess.
>
> For example:
> (in this example assume that 10.0.0.0/8 is a routable range).
>
> +----------------------------+
> | 10.1.1.4 (internet) |
> | |
> | gateway |
> | |
> | 172.16.5.1 |
> +----------------------------+
> |
> |
> |
> +----------------------------+
> | 172.16.5.2 |
> | |
> | DSLAM/NAS |
> | |
> | 10.1.2.0/24 routed to a |
> | client |
> +----------------------------+
>
> So is it just a matter of setting up something like
> /sbin/route -net 10.1.2.0/24 gw 172.16.5.2
> on the gateway?
>
> I would assume this would work but I've never tested it. I didn't use a
> real routable subnet in this example because we haven't been allocated
> any yet and I wopuldn't use someone else's IPs in an example :)
>
> --
> Jeremy Lunn
> Melbourne, Australia
>
>
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