From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 26 17: 5:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from bacardi.torrentnet.com (bacardi.torrentnet.com [198.78.51.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47AF637B6B1 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacardi.torrentnet.com (localhost.torrentnet.com [127.0.0.1]) by bacardi.torrentnet.com (8.10.2/8.10.2) with ESMTP id e9R05ct21991; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:05:38 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200010270005.e9R05ct21991@bacardi.torrentnet.com> To: Nick Rogness Cc: "Richard A. Steenbergen" , "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:58:19 MDT." Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:05:38 -0400 From: Bakul Shah Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > 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. Wouldn't listening to/soliciting router discovery ICMP messages on your hosts take care of this? See RFC 1256. Supposedly FreeBSD `routed' already does this. When you have multiple routers in your network this ought to be better than hardwiring a default gateway on your hosts. But you shouldn't need to run RIP or OSPF on your hosts. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message