I may not understood\interpreted the scenario pretty well. I will try again: "i have a server with 2 public ips on 2 devices." He has two servers or two gateways or both??
"I want that the request of incoming traffic dont use the default gateway. Incoming traffic sould be answered using the gateway of the incoming device " How to interpret this sentence??? The scenario I can think of is that these servers have more then one gateway and in this case it's really unclear to me if the gateways are serving the same networks or not. From what I understood in this situation he wants to prevent a reverse path routing or in another words he wants the connection that comes from some host and gateway(which is unknown) to be returned\continued using this same gateway. So it's really unclear(to me) if it's routing includes two gateways for the same network and some routing protocol that allows that or another option.
In any case since he spoke about "incoming" traffic which to my basic and simple understanding means the whole Internet he cannot use basic routing settings to do that *unless* he can predict that all incoming traffic is going to be from a specific gateway. Again I understood that he doesn't know which gateway the traffic will come from but he wants to preserve the reverse path to them.
If he will bother to clear it out I will continue to respond and if not... well it's clear that there are couple possibilities to the scenario and I was referring to a specific one.
So in any case I will add that in the past the linux kernel implemented a routing cache which was removed somewhere in the 3.X versions and while it existed it was so that if someone was contacting a server that had this kernel the routing cache was causing a weird scenario which the kernel would route traffic using the same gateway as long as the cache entry exists. However in the kernels which this cache was removed a Packet By Packet routing decision is being made and unless you can know who are all your clients you cannot predict their routing path using a simple static linux routing setup and you would be required to choose some other alternative. --- I don't know really who Dr Robert Anthony is but his words are true only for specific and understood scenarios which I can understand and interpret. The situation is that I still do not understand it and I tried to answer a specific scenario which I think applies to couple of them.
All The Bests, Eliezer
On 29/12/2015 22:39, Gordon Messmer wrote:
Now, if you had a host with just one address that was behind two different NAT routers, then that would be a configuration that might require marking connections based on the MAC address of incoming packets, and applying rules based on those marks. However, such a configuration is broken in several different ways, and connection marking just digs that hole deeper. Don't do this.
At some point, I'd remind you of the advice of Dr Robert Anthony: "“If you find a good solution and become attached to it, the solution may become your next problem." ___________________________________________