Routing all traffic through an external host?

mdpye · Last edited by mdpye on Sun Dec 29, 2002 2:07 pm; edited 1 time in total

OK, fairly simple problem, not sure if there is a solution. I want to route all traffic which leaves my subnet via a specified host which is also not part of my subnet. Reasons are complex, but perfectly innocent.

I don't want to set up a proxy server, because that only deals with certain types of traffic, and it isn't transparent, I want to set something (I imagine with /sbin/route) and see that host in every traceroute output.

I've played around with route a bit, but I'm slightly out of my depth, and I'm not even sure this is possible (but I really hope it is).

Can anyone help?
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SpamMonkey · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 4:08 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't some form of tunnelling do this?

Why would you want to route all of your data through that host though?

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mdpye · Posted: Sat Dec 28, 2002 4:47 pm Post subject:

Basically, in my Uni residence, I have a 100Mb/s network point, this gives me an 100Mb/s connection to the University which is very fast and reliable. There is also a 32Kb/s connection to the internet shared between a possible 1400 people. I'm sure the ludicrousy of this is quickly apparent, especially when you consider that there is no bad on p2p file sharing. This means the internet pipe is rammed 24/7, and recently in an attempt to fix this, they have blocked all services except (s)http and (for some reason) kazaa, the chief culprit of the "big bandwidth back-shafting".

I wish to route all my traffic through a university server to ensure that it used the faster more reliable route to the internet rather than the default fscked one.

I can't set it as my default gateway, cos it's on a different subnet. I can't start running extra services, it's not my machine. What can I do?
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TrippyZ · n00b Joined: 04 Dec 2002 Posts: 38

>>I can't set it as my default gateway, cos it's on a different subnet. I can't start running extra services, it's not my machine. What can I do?

Your default gateway needn't be on your subnet!

mdpye · Posted: Mon Dec 30, 2002 2:40 pm Post subject: