[103175] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: default routes question or any way to do the rebundant
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Holstein)
Thu Mar 20 16:52:04 2008
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:50:31 -0400
From: Michael Holstein <michael.holstein@csuohio.edu>
To: ann kok <annkok2001@yahoo.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <470204.85471.qm@web53303.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> ls it possible to have 2 default routes?
>
No .. not in the literal sense.
> or how can I do the rebundant when the route is still
> working either eth1 or eth2 down?
>
What you do in this case is create an equal weighted preference for each
of the two routes, along with tests to ensure each link is up and modify
your pf rules accordingly.
example1 (this is for netfilter) :
http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html
example2 (freebsd specific) :
http://www.freebsddiary.org/phorum/read.php?f=6&i=79&t=79
As others have mentioned, this is a question for the various FreeBSD
mailing lists ..
Cheers,
Michael Holstein
Cleveland State University
