From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 3 12:12:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (camelot.BITart.com [206.103.221.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 182DA151F9 for ; Fri, 3 Sep 1999 12:11:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 9114 invoked by uid 101); 3 Sep 1999 19:08:52 -0000 Message-ID: <19990903190852.9113.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: <00af01bef62e$917a6a40$96baa7d1@zigzag.mco.net> X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:08:52 -0500 To: Subject: Re: multi-homed Reply-To: gerti@BITart.com References: <00af01bef62e$917a6a40$96baa7d1@zigzag.mco.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark Jones wrote: > We have two T1's one sprint one uu-net. I have configured a webserver > machine with one ethernet card to have two ip addresses, one on the sprint > feed and one on the uu-net feed. The default route is set to the uu-net > feed. I have set our dns to round robin the hostname between the two ip > addresses. > > When some one trys to access the server the rodrobin 50/50 between the two > addresses no problem but the reply goes out the default route (the uu-net > feed). > > I am looking for two options here. > A) if the request comes in on one feed the reply goes out the same. > B) it uses the default route unless that feed is down then it switches to > the other feed. > I am very interested in an answer to those questions also. I assume B could be done with a small script that pings the remote router and changes the default route upon failure, but I feel that there might be a more elegant solution out there. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message