Re: SSL Certificate signing problem

["Adrian C." <drupix@gmail.com>]

If i assign metric 1 to 1st gway and 2 to 2nd it never falls back from
gateway with best metric. Even if it goes down it still sticks to it.
Something is terribly wrong. I am running Slackware 10.


On Sat, 09 Oct 2004 20:20:26 -0400, Kevin J. Cummings
<cummings@kjchome.homeip.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Adrian C. wrote:
> > Hello. I'm trying to setup a simple failover between 2 gateways on kernel 2.6.2
> > Here it goes.
> > just one interface for everything: eth0
> > route add default gw 192.168.1.1
> > route add default gw 192.168.2.1
> >
> > let's say i ping gmail.com and i kill the 192.168.1.1 machine. ping
> > stops for about 2 minutes then the next gateway is used and the ping
> > comes back to live. The only problem here is that it forgets to NAT my
> > clients via the new gway. At least that's my only explanation why it
> > stops NATting. Masquerading is done without a -d so destination is
> > any. What can be done here?
> > Also please let me know the files in which i should modify fallback
> > timeout for routes. I need a route check every 10 seconds or so.
> > One more thing, if 192.168.1.1 comes back to live i would like to
> > become the preferred gateway no matter if 192.168.1.2 is alive and
> > used by kernel. Is this solved by metrics?
> 
> I thought that this is what Metrics were supposed to do.  If you
> *prefer* the .1.1 route, assign it a better Metric than the .2.1 route.
>   Then, when the .1.1 route goes down, the packets should be immediately
> re-routed to the .2.1 interface, and when the .1.1 comes back up, the
> first route should work again.  THat's *my* understanding of how Metrics
> are supposed to work.
> 
> I'm not an expert, and I'm not sure about what happens after a TCP
> connection is already established and then an interface fails (or
> restores) whether *that* connection will continue to use the previous
> routing or not.
> 
> --
> Kevin J. Cummings
> kjchome@rcn.com
> cummings@kjchome.homeip.net
> cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us
>