Chapter 5. Simple Network Examples

This chapter will take you through a series of implementation examples for Policy Routing. These examples primarily draw upon the use and configuration of Policy Routing under Linux. You will see the various uses of the ip utility, which was illustrated in Chapter 4. In some instances I will use and refer to other utilities and methods for configuring the structure, but will not be explaining those utilities in this book.

This chapter starts off with the Policy Routing core subjects of addresses, routes, and rules. As you saw in Chapter 3, "Linux Policy Routing Structures" these subjects comprise the core of the RPDB. In most cases I start with the overall theory and delve deeper into the ramifications of ...

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