Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:55:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? Message-ID: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net> In-Reply-To: <44hebrstgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <004b01c2c7a2$122fff40$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> <44hebrstgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > Does that make sense? > > Sure. What you want isn't two default routers, because at any given > time there's only one way you want to route this traffic. What you > really want is to change default router when the outside world sees > one as down. A little tricky, because the system itself might not see > main network as problematic, even though the rest of the Internet does. Not multiple default routers, but multiple default routes, in this case two, with different metrics to control failover. This is easy to do on some systems (Cisco and Solaris), not so on others. Don't know about FreeBSD, but I'll take a look later if the question hasn't been answered already. KeS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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