Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:45:41 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "secondary" gateway? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912191844310.76170-100000@gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <19991218201354.A47710@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Dec 17), Eduardo Viruena Silva said:
> > I have a FreeBSD box with two ethernet cards: ep0 and ed1. They
> > connect my computer to two different networks. One of the networks
> > frecuently fails and my computer gets isolated. In this cases, I
> > delete the default route and set it again through the other
> > interface.
> >
> > Is it possible to have a backup default route ? How can I do it?
>
> The only way I know of is to run 'routed' on the FreeBSD machine, which
> will make it listen on both networks for routing broadcasts. When one
> network goes down, it should fall back to the other network. This will
> only work if the primary routers on both networks are broadcasting RIP
> or IRDP packets. Check the 'routed' manpage for more information.
Thank you, Dan.
I think they are using EIGRP, but I think they can distribute also RIP.
>
> --
> Dan Nelson
> dnelson@emsphone.com
>
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