On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:15:50PM -0200, Christoph Simon wrote: > On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 10:52:28 -0500 > Adrian Chung <adrian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Actually, after I wrote my last couple of messages, I was thinking > > about it more, and I think it's a misunderstanding that I have. Your > > HOWTO is mainly geared towards load balancing, and failover when one > > of the links goes down. > > > > I'd like to do that, but I'd like to mainly use one link, and only > > fall back (fail over) to the second link when the first goes down. Since these are Julian's patches (from what I can tell), he might be the best person to ask, but, how hard would it be to do: $ ip route add default table 100 nexthop via aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd dev eth2 weight 1 nexthop via bbb.ccc.ddd.eee dev eth1 weight 0 And have the first link used fulltime, and the second (eth1) link only used when the first is "dead". Is "weight 0" used for anything right now, or even possible? -- Adrian Chung (adrian at enfusion-group dot com) http://www.enfusion-group.com/~adrian GPG Fingerprint: C620 C8EA 86BA 79CC 384C E7BE A10C 353B 919D 1A17 [rogue.enfusion-group.com] up 134 days, 4:07, 4 users
