From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Apr 22 6:42:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genesis.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B52F37B422 for ; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:42:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@tao.org.uk) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id E626B31E1; Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:42:53 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:42:53 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Tom Samplonius Cc: Kris Kirby , isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiport FBSD Routing? Message-ID: <20010422144252.H225@tao.org.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from tom@sdf.com on Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:15:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 12:15:31AM -0700, Tom Samplonius wrote: >=20 > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Kris Kirby wrote: >=20 > > > If each T1 goes to a different provider, well, that is kinda of a > messed up > > > situation. I see people trying to do this, and configure all their > > > servers with IPs from each provider. It turns into a unreliable, > > > convulted mess. Not a good thing if you want to achieve better > > > reliability. > >=20 > > I'm not saying I want to try to use both networks in a parallel > > fashion. I'm saying I want to try to use a FreeBSD machine in place of a > > cisco router. This requires managing the default/current route. Logical= ly, > > Zebra would have to feed the BGP route information into the routing > > table. If cisco's already done it, it should be able to be done on UN*X= .=20 >=20 > Yes, but FreeBSD can't have more than one gateway per destination. > There has been a patch for that, but it has been lost. The routing table > simply lacks the ability to store more than one gateway. Yes, it's something that Chris Luke at Easynet knocked up. You'll probably find it in the archives if you look. Joe --tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjri39IACgkQXVIcjOaxUBbJPQCglX7JlSUgbJfZF0JH+xkrlxxH vUEAoNTEsfZLeVv3LrwZASs+VgW3/U9t =SYhT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tT3UgwmDxwvOMqfu-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message