netdev - Re: increase the number of routing tables

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:06:31 -0500
From:	Simon Chen <simonchennj@...il.com>
To:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: increase the number of routing tables

Basically I am trying to build a NATter with multiple uplinks...

I have a ton of private IPs behind the NATter, and I need to NAT a
private IP into different uplinks based on the destination prefix.
Think about choosing a specific ISP for a certain destination.

Therefore I'll need to maintain a per-IP routing table to make sure
the outgoing packet goes to the right uplink, and then use
iptables-rules to translate into the proper public IP.

-Simon

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> wrote:
> On 01/28/2012 08:20 PM, Simon Chen wrote:
>>
>> Thanks...
>>
>> Here says 252 routing tables top... maybe that's too old:
>> http://linux-ip.net/html/routing-tables.html
>>
>> I wonder if we can use a trie-tree for "ip rule" - linear evaluation
>> does not sound too good. But I'll be using a ton of iptables rules as
>> well, and I believe those are linear evaluation too :-(
>
>
> At least some rules apply only to packets entering certain
> interfaces.  It seems we could have per-interface rule collections
> in those cases so that only a few rules would be searched each time.
>
> What type of rules are you planning to use?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
> Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
> Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com
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