From owner-freebsd-net Sun Mar 3 23:57:55 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.mlnet.net (mailhost.mlnet.net [194.217.128.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE3F37B402 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:57:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from postie@localhost) by mailhost.mlnet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA13330; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 07:56:16 GMT Received: from dhcp172.nominet.org.uk(194.205.67.172) by mailhost via smap (V2.1) id xma013312; Mon, 4 Mar 02 07:55:42 GMT Message-ID: <3C83282A.2849E051@mlnet.net> Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 07:54:18 +0000 From: Matthew Reply-To: m@mlnet.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brendan Kosowski Cc: FreeBSD Networking Subject: Re: How can I give one route priority over the other route ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org IMHO, this should be done by the routing protocol of your choice rather than by the kernel. I recommend checking out www.zebra.org for the zebra routing protocol suite which includes OSPF, BGP, RIP The syntax is very cisco like. I use BGP out of personal preference - all you need to do is add weights to your neighbors to give priority to a peer. M Brendan Kosowski wrote: > > In situations where there are 2 routes in your routing table that apply to > a given destination IP address, how do you give one route priority over > the other ? > > Regards, Brendan... > > ------------------- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message