Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 20:13:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "secondary" gateway? Message-ID: <19991218201354.A47710@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912172046150.1001-100000@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx>; from "Eduardo Viruena Silva" on Fri Dec 17 20:50:50 GMT 1999 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912172046150.1001-100000@Michelle.esfm.ipn.mx>
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In the last episode (Dec 17), Eduardo Viruena Silva said: > I have a FreeBSD box with two ethernet cards: ep0 and ed1. They > connect my computer to two different networks. One of the networks > frecuently fails and my computer gets isolated. In this cases, I > delete the default route and set it again through the other > interface. > > Is it possible to have a backup default route ? How can I do it? The only way I know of is to run 'routed' on the FreeBSD machine, which will make it listen on both networks for routing broadcasts. When one network goes down, it should fall back to the other network. This will only work if the primary routers on both networks are broadcasting RIP or IRDP packets. Check the 'routed' manpage for more information. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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