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Date:      Thu, 22 Nov 2001 19:28:06 +0800
From:      "edwin chen" <slack@suntop-cn.com>
To:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com>
Subject:   Re: how about default route ?
Message-ID:  <002b01c17348$c5ad6800$9201a8c0@home.net>
References:  <000a01c17286$5deecdc0$9201a8c0@home.net> <4466843x0z.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net>

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thanks, that's the answer I needed,

edwin chen


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lowell Gilbert" <lowell@world.std.com>
To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <slack@suntop-cn.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 12:32 AM
Subject: Re: how about default route ?


> slack@suntop-cn.com (edwin chen) writes:
>
> > in win2000, I can setup two default route, can freebsd do that ? if can,
what will happened ? if can't ,why ?
>
> I don't know a lot about Windows NT, but I believe that this functionality
> supports automatic failover between statically configured default
gateways.
> FreeBSD doesn't support this, but it does support router discovery (if you
> enable a routing daemon, such as routed(8)), which is usually a better way
> to handle redundant paths to the Internet.  If you can run real routing
> protocols, that's even better, but you need support from your upstream
> routers.
>


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