From owner-freebsd-net Thu Oct 26 10:49:48 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 6159C37B479 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:49:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA92623; Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:49:35 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:49:35 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multihomed Routing In-Reply-To: <20001026071113.A39980@lunatic.oneinsane.net> 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, 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 > > Can anyone enlighten me on this kind of setup and its proper way of > implimentation. Run a IRP like OSPF (via gated) which will allow you to do what you need to do. 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