From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 22 0:19:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D94637B423 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom (helo=localhost) by misery.sdf.com with local-esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 14rE5l-0007dx-00; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:15:33 -0700 Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 00:15:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Kris Kirby Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiport FBSD Routing? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Kris Kirby wrote: > > If each T1 goes to a different provider, well, that is kinda of a messed up > > situation. I see people trying to do this, and configure all their > > servers with IPs from each provider. It turns into a unreliable, > > convulted mess. Not a good thing if you want to achieve better > > reliability. > > I'm not saying I want to try to use both networks in a parallel > fashion. I'm saying I want to try to use a FreeBSD machine in place of a > cisco router. This requires managing the default/current route. Logically, > Zebra would have to feed the BGP route information into the routing > table. If cisco's already done it, it should be able to be done on UN*X. Yes, but FreeBSD can't have more than one gateway per destination. There has been a patch for that, but it has been lost. The routing table simply lacks the ability to store more than one gateway. I really don't understand why you want to use Zebra and BGP to manage the default route? If you are using default routing, you really don't need a routing protocol at all. Typically if you are using BGP, you won't even have a default route, because you'll have a specific route to every destination. > ----- > Kris Kirby, KE4AHR | TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > | > ------------------------------------------------------- > "Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony." Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message