From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 30 10:49:40 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 6116F37B401 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:49:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E2F43F43 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 10:49:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com[24.147.188.198]) by sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with ESMTP id <2003013018493700200i33b6e>; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 18:49:37 +0000 Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.198] (may be forged)) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0UInb9s002020 for ; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:49:37 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0UIna8L002017; Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:49:36 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? References: <004b01c2c7a2$122fff40$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> <44hebrstgw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 30 Jan 2003 13:49:36 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net> Message-ID: <441y2ujwvz.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 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 Kevin Stevens writes: > 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. Okay, that makes more sense. For that, you generally use a routing protocol, but you need some cooperation from your service provider(s). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message