On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 10:43:46PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > I have two links to the net. A primary link which is quite reliable and a > secondary link that is a stand-by. > > What's the best way of making the secondary take over? > > There's no need to routing protocols because we don't have routing protocols > running, but I'd be happy to install something like Zebra if it can be > configured to ping hosts on one link and switch to the other link if they > stop responding.
Zebra AFAIK is for running BGP, which will require major upstream co-operation. You need to register some sort of BGP number etc. This is the best solution if you have multiple "real" routes and you want the world to know about it and use the best route depending on where they are connected. Secondary backup links don't usually want BGP and Zebra. What you use does depend on what you want it for... do you want to serve stuff over the backup, or just connect upstream? There is a good description of the issues and step-by-step instructions at; http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1824/sam0201h/0201h.htm It's a bit RH sentric, but still relevant. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ABO: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for more info, including pgp key ----------------------------------------------------------------------
