From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 31 8:39:44 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 7192E37B401 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:39:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts14.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1CC43F3F for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 08:39:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@3bags.com) Received: from 3bagsmedia ([207.35.180.174]) by tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with ESMTP id <20030131163941.CYXA23890.tomts14-srv.bellnexxia.net@3bagsmedia> for ; Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:39:41 -0500 Reply-To: From: "Phillip Smith (mailing list)" To: Subject: RE: How to set-up two 'defaultrouter' IPs? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:41:36 -0500 Message-ID: <006e01c2c947$9ee1bbd0$aeb423cf@3bagsmedia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 In-Reply-To: <20030129125303.W54739@babelfish.pursued-with.net> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal 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 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