From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 19 16:45:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gina.esfm.ipn.mx (Gina.esfm.ipn.mx [148.204.102.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40E4E14FA7 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:45:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Received: from localhost (mrspock@localhost) by gina.esfm.ipn.mx (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA76203; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:45:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx) Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 18:45:41 -0600 (CST) From: Eduardo Viruena Silva To: Dan Nelson Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "secondary" gateway? In-Reply-To: <19991218201354.A47710@dan.emsphone.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > - ______ _ * / /###\ / \ __ /\ /\ * / ./#### \ * \__|_/ | | / \/ \ | b#####| * _ | __ | | __ = .. \____ \ \_\#####/ / \| / \ | | /\_\/ = \_| * \___\###/ * \_/\_/\__/\__\/_/\__/ = \______/ _ | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message