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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.




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