Hello, On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jody Shumaker wrote: > ${IP} route add default table 221 proto static \ > nexthop via ${EXTGW2} dev ${EXTIF2} weight 1\ > nexthop via ${EXTGW1} dev ${EXTIF1} weight 5 > > With this command, connections going out from my network always seem to use > the GW1 route. I if I reverse the order of the nexthop's to list GW1 first > and GW2 second, then the reverse happens and all outgoign connections use > GW2. I'm going to attempt to test this better by attempting a large number > of connections to a large list of ip's, but in running this setup I've never > seen it use both gateway's. Do you have script to ping/arping the gateways on eth device(s)? The NOARP devices are always preferred if the GWs on ARP devices are not marked reachable in ARP cache. Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc