On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 12:51 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote: > 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. > Yep, you're right. Sometimes I should pay attention to the details :-) Bob...
