From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 29 12:55:26 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A61237B401 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:55:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from pursued-with.net (adsl-66-125-9-242.dsl.sndg02.pacbell.net [66.125.9.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E678D43F75 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:55:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Received: from babelfish (babelfish [192.168.168.42]) by pursued-with.net (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0TKtLkW054747; Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:55:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 12:55:21 -0800 (PST) From: Kevin Stevens Reply-To: Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net To: Lowell Gilbert Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? In-Reply-To: <44hebrstgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-ID: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net> References: <004b01c2c7a2$122fff40$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> <44hebrstgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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