Hi, No, you can't use metric this way. If you plan to implement alternatives route with dead gateway detection, you'll need to patch your kernel using julian's patches available at: http://www.linux-vs.org/~julian/ >From julian's doc: "alternative routes are those routes that are created in same route table, have equal route destination, prefix length, metric and scope. This is an essential requirement for the reverse path (rp_filter) protection because it avoids reaching less specific routes when looking up by specific output device." Hope this helps. Regards, Vincent. On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:24, Poltorak Serguei wrote: > Hello > > I would like to know how does metric work for now. > I'm trying to use it for "failover". if my nexthop (gateway) is down i > want another route with bigger metric to be used. for now all in vain. :( > are there any implementation of metric in current routing mechanism?? > > PoltoS/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/ -- Vincent Jaussaud <tatooin@kelkoo.com> Kelkoo.com _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
