From owner-freebsd-net Thu Mar 7 15:20: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D36D37B487 for ; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 15:18:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.6) id g27NIn006328; Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:18:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 18:18:49 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200203072318.g27NIn006328@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "George V. Neville-Neil" Cc: FreeBSD Networking Subject: Re: How can I give one route priority over the other route ? In-Reply-To: <200203040210.g242ARBu093357@m2.mv.meer.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020304025555.02c9eac8@mail.drwilco.net> <200203040210.g242ARBu093357@m2.mv.meer.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > This is an issue with the routing system design. Many routers > allow duplicate routes (same netmask) that have different priorities. > This makes it quicker to switch routes during a failure. FreeBSD permits this as well. It is the responsibility of the routing process to manage which specific route is installed in the kernel forwarding table at any given time. (FreeBSD's `routed' can do this in some instances.) FreeBSD does not directly support multiple static routes to a given destination, since it has no knowledge which would enable it to choose among them; again, a routing process can be used to manage this. -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message