Hello James,

Wednesday, January 2, 2008, 8:22:04 PM, you wrote:

JC> Robert Milkowski writes:
>>       If I have two different networks - A and B, with two default
>>       routers, Solaris by default will round-robin between them, which
>>       is bad...

JC> It's not clear to me why that's "bad," as it's exactly what you've
JC> asked the system to do and what a reader of RFC 791 would expect, but
JC> I'll take it as a given.

>>       Is there a tunable (ndd?) to tell a global zone to use default
>>       router for a given packet from a network a packet came in?

JC> No, because in general there's just no relationship at all between a
JC> packet coming in and one going out.  If there *is* a relationship,
JC> it's something that may be known only to the application involved.
JC> Even when the stack knows about it the relationship -- as with TCP,
JC> but not with UDP or ICMP -- it's merely temporal; if the system can
JC> get better bandwidth or reliability by using an equivalent or better
JC> route, it can and should do so.

JC> It's just not that simple.

Yeah, I know. I'm just trying to quickly solve the problem.
Looks like the workaround with putting interfaces in a global zone
into down state does the trick.

Good that ip-instances for ce is coming... (I know it's in snv_80).

-- 
Best regards,
 Robert                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
                                       http://milek.blogspot.com

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