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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:53:40 -0700
From:      Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multihomed Routing
Message-ID:  <20001026105340.A45573@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261146041.60161-100000@rapidnet.com>; from nick@rapidnet.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:49:35AM -0600
References:  <20001026071113.A39980@lunatic.oneinsane.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261146041.60161-100000@rapidnet.com>

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Nick Rogness (nick@rapidnet.com) 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
> 
> > 
> > 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.
> 

So then you are saying that all my servers on the Network need to be
running gated so they can always know the proper way out?

TIA

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