From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 26 14:58:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D6037B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 14:58:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA26502; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:58:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:58:19 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: "Richard A. Steenbergen" Cc: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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