Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 11:05:50 -0500 From: Len Conrad <LConrad@Go2France.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing Default Route Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010921110545.04b1c6c0@mail.Go2France.com>
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>1. Has anyone out there crafted a shell script that can monitor whether >the default route is active? > if active, leave alone; if inactive change to abother route; if route > is back up, change back to it. > I have a link that keeps fluctuating and I seriously need something to > run out of cron to manage the > connectivity for me. I don't have sufficient skills to script this but > I believe someone could already > be doing that. well, a load-balancer could do that, in the sense when the balnacer probed the default route as not repsonding, it would be the same a "heavily overloaded" so the load balancer would route to another next-hop gateway ip. there's an RFC for redundant routing, take a look at this: /usr/ports/net/vrrpd sourceforge, too, IIRC Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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