Subject: Re: Two default routes?
To: Amir Nazary <amir@ionis.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 10/20/2001 17:30:25
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:34:00PM -0700, Amir Nazary wrote:
> Anyone know a way of dynamically utilizing two default routes(gateways 
> to the internet) on a NetBSD box without the use of BGP or some other 
> dynamic routing protocol.  What I'm looking to do is load balance (just 
> a simple 50/50 algorithm is fine) and be fault tolerant (use only 1 when 
> the other is down).

Without some dynamic routing protocol you can't be reliably fault tolerant.
You link may not be down, but the next-hop may be.
I think for what you want to do here, you really want BGP.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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