Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 14:08:52 -0500 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: multi-homed Message-ID: <19990903190852.9113.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <00af01bef62e$917a6a40$96baa7d1@zigzag.mco.net> References: <00af01bef62e$917a6a40$96baa7d1@zigzag.mco.net>
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Mark Jones wrote: > We have two T1's one sprint one uu-net. I have configured a webserver > machine with one ethernet card to have two ip addresses, one on the sprint > feed and one on the uu-net feed. The default route is set to the uu-net > feed. I have set our dns to round robin the hostname between the two ip > addresses. > > When some one trys to access the server the rodrobin 50/50 between the two > addresses no problem but the reply goes out the default route (the uu-net > feed). > > I am looking for two options here. > A) if the request comes in on one feed the reply goes out the same. > B) it uses the default route unless that feed is down then it switches to > the other feed. > I am very interested in an answer to those questions also. I assume B could be done with a small script that pings the remote router and changes the default route upon failure, but I feel that there might be a more elegant solution out there. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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