Redirect certain url/domain over certain WAN

rexis

We can now redirect to different gateway based on source and destination, is it possible for me to redirect to gateway based on url/domain?

For example:

WAN1 - fast internet connection
WAN2 - slow internet connection

High bandwidth usage (eg, youtube.com, dropbox.com) go out through WAN1
Low bandwidth usage (eg, gmail.com, hotmail.com) go out using WAN2

How is it possible? I have spent sometime on the L7 filter but no findings yet.

Thanks

heper

aliases

miodzicho

@heper:

aliases

A little more details please ? I'm also interested in solution but I want to redirect some addresses (urls) to another gateway through VPN tunnel. No idea so far how to achieve this.

dhatz

If you want to use it for popular sites (youtube etc), any solution will probably need to involve squid …

Aliases probably won't do it, even if pfsense someday implements a feature such as the one I suggested a year ago "Maintain IP range tables for popular Internet sites" http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1901

rexis

Billion thanks for the feedback.

@dhatz:

If you want to use it for popular sites (youtube etc), any solution will probably need to involve squid …

Aliases probably won't do it, even if pfsense someday implements a feature such as the one I suggested a year ago "Maintain IP range tables for popular Internet sites" http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/1901

I don't mind involving squid, how would that work? Is it at the WebGUI or is it some squid customized configuration?

Why would the "Maintain IP range tables" failed? Say if I run "dig www.youtube.com" everyday and update the Allias ip-list daily, would that work? I can only imagine that the filter would left out any new but not updated ip, and, a bit tedious to go thru 10+ firewalls daily.

rexis

I've decided to try out Aliases, IP is obtained by dig and updated daily. I did refer to squid's access.log for all(most) the url associated to youtube.com for eg.

Am using Aliases Hosts because I would like to keep the record updated locally(like config.xml) as I find it troublesome to set up a webserver just to host the URL table text file. Ip addresses are inserted into config.xml directly.

It would be convenience if I am able to refer to a local text file(so no need to insert thousands of ip addresses into that little config.xml)

Thanks for the attention. :)