Hi all Iam running now, Cisco Route-map using Multiple gateways so iam manually forwarding the source ip address to different gateways using routemap of cisco Due to Limitation of the Router and process is High, i can not afford to go for high end router. So i have decided to Go for Linux Router with Multiple gateways I have router 1 co-located at provider 1 I have router 2 co-located at provider 2 I have router 3 co-located at my NOC >From Provider 1 to My NOC and provider 2 to NOC are connected via Fiber and its terminated to My Switch Router 3 is also terminated to same Switch All my other Aggrigate router and Dialup and other Servers gateway is My router 3 ( x.x.x.2) My router 3 will decide which link the packets should go out using Route-map Router3 ip address x.x.x.2 Router 2 ip address x.x.x.3 Router 1 ip address x.x.x.4 Now I have Introduced My linux Box with all patches mention in nano.txt I have Linux box with 4 interface Eth1 connected to router 3 ( x.x.x.2) Eth2 connected to router 2 ( x.x.x.3) Eth3 connected to router 1 ( x.x.x.4) Eth0 is connected to My LAN and allocated IP x.x.x.5 , So all my local network should keep gateway of Eth0 ( x.x.x.5) Now my linux box should decide the routes depend on the source IP address Now my Queations are 1. can i make eth1, eth2, eth3 in bridge mode, so i no need to mention any ip address to those interface 2. so eth0 and router1,2,3, are in same subnet 3. iam running in BGP in cisco router, need to shift to this Linux box, is this zebra is stable, any expert coment. 4. if except eth0 have ip, rest all bridgemode, how does the iptables take care of routings 5, or i should use etables 6. is this possible that this linux box act as a bridge mode with out any IP on all interfaces and act as a router and decide the routes ( if yes, how ?) 7. how does the Link failure detects take place, since the router Ethernet Link will be up, becoz its connected to fiber, but if the wan link go down at the co-located router, how does the routes will take place and detect the link is down. and send them to other active Links. thanks some one will comment on this setup before i deploy, i want to take some suggestions and go for live thanks hare _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/
