Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 21:40:28 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Ron Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing Message-ID: <39F8F92C.183B303B@softweyr.com> References: <20001026071113.A39980@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261146041.60161-100000@rapidnet.com> <20001026105340.A45573@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
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Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote:
>
> 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?
If you have a single router connected to the interior LAN and the multiple
exterior routes, no. You can run OSPF on the router, everyone else uses
the router as their default gateway and doesn't need any other routes.
If you have two routers on your LAN, then yes, every host will need to
run some sort of routing protocol. You may be able to run gated on the
routers and something simpler, like routed, on the hosts, but once you've
configured gated you might as well just share that configuration among
all the hosts.
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Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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