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I have the following interfaces/routes :

# ip route show
192.168.101.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.101.10
192.168.8.0/24 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.8.1
default via 192.168.101.251 dev eth0

Device eth0 is connected to a network with a gateway (192.168.101.251) to internet, and device tun0 is connected to an access point (with some hotspot software).

I can ping an internet host from eth0 but I can't acces internet from tun0. How do I route packets from tun0 to internet (and back) ?

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You must route default gateway for 0.0.0.0 to tun0

For example:

route add -net default gw 192.168.101.251 dev tun0

might works for you. May be you have to remove default GW for eth0

route del -net default gw 192.168.101.251 dev eth0

This will routes all internet traffic over tun0 device. If you add these two lines in to end of /etc/network/interfaces file, it runs on system boot..

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But if I do this I will not be able to connect to internet from eth0. I want to be able to connect from both interfaces. – drcelus Jan 20 at 14:40
Basically you can not do a request same time with both connection. You can do load balancing when one connection is occupied by a request(s), system tries other one. But I have no knowledge about load balancing.. – RecNes Jan 20 at 14:46
Not both interfaces are connected to internet, just eth0, tun0 is being configured to act as a captive portal and thus requests from there should be routed through eth0 and back. Hope this makes sense. – drcelus Jan 20 at 14:50
Are you saying you want to make the internet on eth0 available to whatever is connected on the other side of tun0? – Tim Jan 20 at 15:49
Yes Tim that's exactly what I need. – drcelus Jan 23 at 8:00
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