Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:04:58 +1000 From: Dale Walker <dale@icr.com.au> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: routing Qs Message-ID: <39512DFA.FCDC5157@icr.com.au> References: <20000621155748.A81471@bsd.planetwe.com>
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Steve Price wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a small problem that I need help with. I'm trying to setup > a box with two NICs: 192.168.12.11 and 192.168.12.21. The default > gateway is 192.168.12.1. This works fine if the 192.168.12.11 > interface is up and connected. However, what I'm trying to do is > to get traffic to go through the second NIC when the first NIC goes > away. > > I've also tried (to no avail thus far) to setup two default gateways > on separate machines: 192.168.12.1 and 192.168.11.1. The two NICs > then had addresses 192.168.12.11 and 192.168.11.1 but only being > able to set a single default gateway sort of nixes this idea too. > > Can someone clue me in to the obvious on how to set this up? > > Thanks. > > -steve Steve, You can do this with a 'ping', and using it's exit status... ie: --------------------------------------------- /usr/sbin/ping -c 1 gw1 && \ /sbin/route change default gw1 || \ /sbin/route change default gw2 --------------------------------------------- however this doesn't allow for the current default route working ok, and will reset your correct route each time it runs... but this may get you started... -- Dale Walker dale@icr.com.au Independent Computer Retailers (ICR) http://www.icr.com.au ICRnet http://www.icr.net.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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