bert hubert wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 03:10:35PM +0200, Christian Lox wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > Sorry if this is a FAQ but I did not find a searchable archive.
> >
> > What I am planning to do:
> > 2 different connections to 2 different ISPs.
> > One is handled by an ISDN card, one via ethernet to their router
> > (DSL).
> > We want to use the DSL line; only if this fails we need the ISDN
> > line.
> > I played around with the metrics but could not get it to work.
>
> This *will* be an FAQ soon! It's by far the most asked question. The short
> answer is: you are out of luck. There is no way to reliably automate this.
>
> The best solution found so far is to check in a cron script which connection
> is up, and in case of problems, run something like 'ip route replace default
> via 1.2.3.4 dev ppp0' or 'ip route replace default via 4.3.2.1 dev eth1'.
>
> There are more interesting solutions but they are not easy. There is
> something called 'dead gateway detection'. You may experiment with:
>
> # ip route add default nexthop 1.2.3.4 dev ppp0 nexthop 4.3.2.1 dev eth1
The syntax is:
ip route add default nexthop via 1.2.3.4 dev ppp0 nexthop via 4.3.2.1
dev eth1
> If that works as intended, please let us know!
I just tried and it does some funny things - still investigating...
Juri
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