[H-GEN] Connecting to 2 ISPs one entirely just for theFreeZone, How?

[David Seikel]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:46:32 +1000 "Crowy" <crowaust at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Main reason for adding second ISP:
>  Improve Pings in games, and give fast downloads of updates for said
> games. Hence the new ISP connection is a Bigpond Cable connection,
> but I only wish to allow free traffic on this connection as
> additional traffic is charged at 15c/MB

Ah, so it's not just web pages, it's games as well.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: general-bounces at lists.humbug.org.au [mailto:general-
> > bounces at lists.humbug.org.au] On Behalf Of David Seikel
> >
> > So, if the Free Zone is defined as a bunch of IP addresses, then use
> > the route command (or your routers equivalent config file) to add a
> > bunch of routes for those IPs, sending them through IF1, and the
> > routers default gateway to IF2.
> >
> > I have another NIC that is the equivalent of IF0 that is NAT'ed and
> > anything that connects through that just uses me as a gateway.  Your
> > LAN is likely already setup that way.
> 
> Now does the squid proxy really need to know anything about the
> changed routes? Or does it just need to request everything from the
> router as per previous?

Since all traffic is going through the router anyway, it's the routers
routing tables you change to re route the free stuff to Bigpond.  So
long as your squid proxy is not using Wild Internet's proxy as a
parent, then everything should be sweet.
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