Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:41:36 -0500 From: "Phillip Smith (mailing list)" <lists@3bags.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? Message-ID: <006e01c2c947$9ee1bbd0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> In-Reply-To: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net>
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Much appreciated. : ) > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG] On Behalf Of > Kevin Stevens > Sent: January 29, 2003 3:55 PM > To: Lowell Gilbert > Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: Re: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? > > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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