Hi, Jack,
Yes, you're right... I can have more than one static route... but there
are two drawbacks in what you've said (I hope I understood right
everything that you wrote me):
1. I'm not going to build static routes for every network in the Internet.
(the two gateways are ISPs, and the goal is that my server would
choose the best route to the destination IP address -- any destination)
2. If one interface goes down (the interface 'closest' to slashdot, in
your example), it should automatically be labeled 'very expensive' and not
be used for anything. All the traffic should be switched to the other
interface.
I know that this is done by some protocols like RIP or OSPF. And I also
know there are some pieces of software out there which claim to have RIP
and OSPF included ('zebra' is one of them). But I've got lots of trouble
installing 'zebra'. So any help would be really appreciated... this is
getting urgent, and that is why I changed the topic.
Thank you,
bogdan
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> I don't think you can have to default routes (atleast this is the way I
> understand it, I could be wrong.) but you can set more then 1 static routes.
> For example say
>
> eth0 - 192.168.17.2
> eth1 - 10.10.10.2
>
> (I know this are bunk ip's, just for example)
>
> everything that goes to 192.168.17.** should be faster if routed out though
> eth0, so we can put that route in:
>
> route add -net 192.168.17.0 gw 192.168.17.2 eth0
>
> (check sytnax, can't remember to well from memory)
>
> and everything that goes to 10.10.10.** should be faster if routed out
> though eth1, so we could put that route in:
>
> route add -net 10.10.10.0 gw 10.10.10.2 eth1
>
> Say slashdot is 4 hops from eth1 and 102 from eth0, so it should be faster
> if we route all packets to/from slashdot though eth1
>
> route add -net 64.28.67.0 gw 10.10.10.2 eth1
>
> You could add static routes like this.
>
> Any one knows if this works, it sound logical right?
>
> Jack
>
> >
> > Hi, Jos,
> >
> > The problem is that I don't do dial-up. My two connections are permanent
> > (leased line and cable), so I need to use both of them simultaneous. Any
> > ideas welcomed!
> >
> > bogdan
> >
> > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Jos Lemmerling wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Bogdan Taru wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > >
> > > > Gotta question: I've got a machine which is connected to 2 ISPs. So,
> what
> > > > can I do in order to use both of them? I've tryied two default
> gateways,
> > > > but it always uses the last inserted. I've tryied to use 'routed', but
> > > > something seems to be missing...
> > > > Any suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > bogdan
> > > >
> > >
> > > On my machine i've three providers working 'together'; in my ip-up
> script
> > > the correct route is added, and in ip-down the route is deleted again.
> > >
> > > You may have to use sudo or something (i needed it to run the command
> > > 'route del default').
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetz Jos Lemmerling
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
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