From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 26 10:53:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from lunatic.oneinsane.net (lunatic.oneinsane.net [207.113.133.231]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6798437B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by lunatic.oneinsane.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6374215551; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:53:40 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:53:40 -0700 From: Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing Message-ID: <20001026105340.A45573@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Reply-To: Ron Rosson Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <20001026071113.A39980@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from nick@rapidnet.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:49:35AM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD lunatic.oneinsane.net 4.1.1-STABLE X-Moon: The Moon is New X-Opinion: What you read here is my IMHO X-WWW: http://www.oneinsane.net X-GPG-FINGERPRINT: 3F11 DB43 F080 C037 96F0 F8D3 5BD2 652B 171C 86DB X-Uptime: 10:52AM up 17 days, 23:58, 1 user, load averages: 1.15, 1.11, 1.08 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Rogness (nick@rapidnet.com) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: > > > Yesterday I got into a discussion with one of my asociates about if a > > Network has 2 Routes out how do you tell your servers to switch between > > the routes without having to manually go in and change them. The > > discussion was not how the routers/switches were going to do it but how > > would are FreeBSD servers no what route to take out. Would the FreeBSD > > servers have to run routed or some other routing based deamon to know > > what there gateway route is? In theory we should not have to set a > > default route on this network for any of our machines. > > Yes you are correct. /usr/ports/net/gated > > > > > Can anyone enlighten me on this kind of setup and its proper way of > > implimentation. > > Run a IRP like OSPF (via gated) which will allow you to > do what you need to do. > So then you are saying that all my servers on the Network need to be running gated so they can always know the proper way out? TIA -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron Rosson ... and a UNIX user said ... The InSaNe One rm -rf * insane@oneinsane.net and all was /dev/null and *void() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Haste cuisine" - Fast French food. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message