Hi all I have seen the below question asked a few times, but not seen any answers. Is this because 1) it is not possible 2) It is really simple and I shouldn't even be asking the question :) Can somebody please enlighten me. Thanks Chris On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 18:48 +0200, Chris Picton wrote: > Hi > > I have read various info, and mailing list archives, but have not found > an answer to the following. > > I have a few servers with configurations similar to the following: > > They each have multiple uplinks to the Internet, and a sample config is > as follows: > > eth1 is 192.168.0.1, connected to 192.168.0.2 > eth2 is 192.168.1.1, connected to 192.168.1.2 > > My default route looks like: > ip route add scope global equalize nexthop via 192.168.0.2 dev eth1 \ > weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.1.2 dev eth2 weight 1 > > If one line goes down, I would like the second to be used exclusively > until the first comes back up > > However, the IPs 192.168.0.2 and 192.168.1.2 are always available and > reachable. It is the connection past those devices which may drop. > > Do any of the available options or patches take this into account, or do > I have to write custom ping scripts to try reach remote hosts via each > gateway, and modify the routes if a line appears to be down. > > > _______________________________________________ > LARTC mailing list > LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc ---------------------+---------------------------------------------------- Chris Picton | PGP Key ID: 9D28A988 (wwwkeys.pgp.net) Technical Director | PGP Key Fingerprint: Tangent Systems | 2B46 29EA D530 79EC D9EA 3ED0 229D 6DD6 9D28 A988 011 447 8096 | "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditar" chrisp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | http://www.tangent.co.za/keys/chrisp.asc ---------------------+----------------------------------------------------
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