[2217] in linux-net channel archive
Re: 2 gateways?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
Fri Mar 22 15:12:29 1996
From: inr-linux-net@ms2.inr.ac.ru (really kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru)
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: 22 Mar 1996 15:37:02 +0300
Wayne Buttles (BUTTLES@inet.CHamplain.EDU) wrote:
: get about equal traffic from the Linux box. Am I correct in
: assuming I can have only one default gateway?
Yes, you are. For now.
: What should I do
: about the other (just let it do discovery like it has all
: along?)?
Set default gateway to any gateway.
It will send redirects to your host when it will see
that packets should be sent to the second gateway.
It will not decrease performance.
: Am I also correct in assuming that I take a network performance
: cut by only having one gateway specifically entered into the
: routing table?
No, no. See above.
F.e. I have two routers too, the first one (Linux based) is attached
by SLIP link to a pretty low loaded net,
the second (Cisco 2514) to the Internet and to another ethernet segment.
I set default gateway on all hosts to Linux box
and it works wonderfully. No perforamnce penalties are observed,
though almost all the traffic now goes via Cisco.
Alexey Kuznetsov.
