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Date:      Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:49:35 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nick Rogness <nick@rapidnet.com>
To:        "Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson" <insane@lunatic.oneinsane.net>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multihomed Routing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010261146041.60161-100000@rapidnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001026071113.A39980@lunatic.oneinsane.net>

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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.




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