On 2009/08/13 16:56, Reyk Floeter wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 06:27:03PM +0400, Vadim Zhukov wrote:
> > On 13 August 2009 G. 17:51:21 Reyk Floeter wrote:
> > > Log message:
> > > add new 'router' functionality to dynamically add or remove routes
> > > based on health check results, using the existing table syntax. this
> > > allows to maintain multiple (uplink) gateways to implement link
> > > balancing or WAN link failover if no routing protocol or other
> > > keepalive method is available. works fine with or without
> > > net.inet.ip.multipath enabled.
> >
> > Yup. Does it mean that many crazy ifstated.conf setups can go away now?
> >
>
> if you use ifstated to ping your uplink gateways and execute the route
> command based on the results - yes.
>
> very simple example:
>
> table <gateways> { $gw1 ip ttl 1, $gw2 ip ttl 1 }
> router "uplinks" {
> route 0.0.0.0/0
> forward to <gateways> check icmp
> }
>
> where $gw1 might be on $ext_if1 and $gw2 on $ext_if2, or even both in
> the same LAN. you can also use things like "check tcp port ssh" of
> course ;). or the "retry" keyword on hosts to avoid route flapping.
rtable support too, I see; nice :)
