From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steen Suder, privat" Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 13:46:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] Load balancing with failover Message-Id: <3FF57622.8030003@suder.dk> List-Id: References: <004e01c3d163$ca39a9d0$3301a8c0@elitecore1> In-Reply-To: <004e01c3d163$ca39a9d0$3301a8c0@elitecore1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Tushar Thakker wrote: > Hi all, > i have network setup with 3 gateways and a large number of intranet nodes, > i want to do automatic load balancing with failover, > i have put following ip rules and routes, > > ip rule add prio 222 table 222 > ip route add default table 222 proto static \ > nexthop via $GWE1 dev $IFE1 \ > nexthop via $GWE2 dev $IFE2 \ > nexthop via $GWE2 dev $IFE3 \ > > Now, i also want to do failover, > but the point is that what shall i need to do about deleting the route cache as soon as some gateway becomes dead or unavailable, > what the system will do on its own and what we need to do for this, > i need a help, AFAIK, You'd have to look at Julian's routepatch(es): . Search for "Dead Gateway Detection". It may not be the entire solution, but a step in the right direction. -- Mvh. / Best regards, Steen Suder ICQ UIN 4133803 _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/