[109971] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Gigabit Linux Routers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Coulson)
Thu Dec 18 09:02:14 2008
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:02:16 -0500
From: David Coulson <david@davidcoulson.net>
To: Ingo Flaschberger <if@xip.at>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0812181302280.26459@filebunker.xip.at>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> Multipath, yes, but flow-based, not per packet.
> There exists a patch for 2.4 kernel, but not for 2.6
> Or tinker with iptables.
And last I checked, even with multiple 'nexthop' entries, it still
wasn't smart enough to drop a route if you lose an interface.