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Date:      Tue, 18 Feb 2020 21:47:19 -0700
From:      "@lbutlr" <kremels@kreme.com>
To:        FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Switching to backup Network
Message-ID:  <44376A6C-558A-4399-A64E-4007612997B4@kreme.com>
In-Reply-To: <64F39D12-E061-4726-B58E-943D61963944@mail.sermon-archive.info>
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On 18 Feb 2020, at 13:19, Doug Hardie <bc979@lafn.org> wrote:
> One of my clients has a machine running 12.1 that is connected via two =
different NICs to two different WANs.  He has drops from 2 different =
ISPs to provide redundancy. I have configured each of the DNS names with =
both IP addresses so that web access will switch over to the backup when =
the primary is down.  Setfib and pf are used to make that work.  That =
works fine (although there is a DNS timeout involved).  The problem is =
that all the servers on the machine talk out via the primary IP address. =
 While web access continues, the server initiated functions fail because =
the next hop is down.  Is there a way to switch everything over to the =
backup network in this case?  I don't find anything that enables =
automatic changes to the default network.

When we had dual drops, we had a router/switch that managed the link =
bonding, including routing when one connection went down. This seems the =
best way to do this, but then again we had multiple machines.


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