Philip A. Prindeville wrote:
I'd tell you more about the purpose of the patch if I had written it. I
didn't. I just updated the original patch to make it compiler for
2.6.26.8 from 2.6.25.19.
My understanding is that you can have multiple default gateways, with
different metrics, and rather than doing multipathing, it will ARP each
gateway periodically.
The one with the lowest route metric that is responding is the one that
will get your traffic.
Sort of the opposite of IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH...
Please send it to netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, if David Miller doesn't see it
it will never make it into the kernel...
-Brian
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