Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:58:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com> To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" <ras@e-gerbil.net> Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261556070.60161-100000@rapidnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261734080.10623-100000@overlord.e-gerbil.net>
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On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Richard A. Steenbergen wrote: > On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Nick Rogness 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 > > I believe where you're going with this is using a router redundancy > protocol like HSRP (Crisco version) or VRRP (standards based). This > doesn't help you with optimal routing, but allows hosts to failover > transparently without having to run gated or be included on any kind of > IGP. This is often MUCH cleaner in practice. Agreed. However, that is a Cisco equipment. The solution I stated earlier is ONLY good when a router(s) have multiple path's to other router(s) networks. Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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