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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


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