> On 04/18/2012 02:24 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
>> I don't know whether the DD-WRT router firmware can distinguish internet
>> usage among all machines here. knemo would become more useful to me if
>> the app could distinguish the difference. If I had only one machine here
>> then there is no need for a distinction, of course. I'm sure many knemo
>> users fit that description --- perhaps bug report (enhancement request)
>> 322 is beyond the scope of the app.
>
> I think it can be easily done and I like the internal verses distinction.
> However, as your dd-wrt router probably also functions as your gateway,
> its
> iptables code can easily check internal/external at the point it sits on
> the
> network. For a client machine to do it, it would basically just have to
> filter
> packets and say:
>
> if ip = mine; then
>   it's local
> elif ip = myClassC subnet; then
>   it's internal
> else
>   it ain't local and it ain't internal, so it must be external.
>
> I'm just not sure how 'authoritative' an app like knemo could be on making
> that
> determination - I'm no routing guru.
>

The local machine would need to be the gateway router in order to be
authoritative on traffic source/destination.  This is a corner case that
probably should not be handled by TDE, as it is a rather stupid idea to
run a GUI on your main gateway/firewall machines for security reasons.

Tim