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Date:      Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:41:36 -0500
From:      "Phillip Smith (mailing list)" <lists@3bags.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?
Message-ID:  <006e01c2c947$9ee1bbd0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia>
In-Reply-To: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net>

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Much appreciated.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG 
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of 
> Kevin Stevens
> Sent: January 29, 2003 3:55 PM
> To: Lowell Gilbert
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs?
> 
> 
> 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
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