On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:53, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > True HSRP and/or VRRP are ways to let the network guarantee that the > default router is always available should there be failures. Some > number of unique routers will appear as a single entity to individual > hosts and will continue to route as long as all of the routers do not > fail. The IP address assigned to the HSRP router is virtual and will > physically reside on one of the redundant set. I think the routers can > choose the best physical box to process the packets and depending on the > configuration this physical router may vary over time and system load. > > I stand corrected. As to the metric option assigned to the default > gateway, apparently it is not used by the kernel (man route). It looks > like the kernel always picks the first default gateway in the table, > whether it's up or not. However, a brief look at the kernel source, > looks like if you compile the kernel with CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH > (2.6.10-1.766_FC3 was) you may be able to tweak what's happening to > routing. > > http://lartc.org/howto/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html might provide some > incite, and looks like what Douglas is trying to do. Good info BTW. :) I can see how that would work given two different subnets for interface 1 and 2. I still don't see how that is going to work given that interface 1 and 2 are in the same subnet. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx zeal, n.: Quality seen in new graduates -- if you're quick.
