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From: "Steele, Tom" <tsteele@chsomaha.org>
To: lartc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [LARTC] question re: dead gateway detection
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 16:22:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-lartc-101724628515193@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-lartc-101722239517873@msgid-missing>

> > So my question is: is there some way that I can detect that the actual 
> > route to the net is unusable, even though the gateway is up ? If not,
when 
> > either one of the lines is down, users will notice they're not getting a

> > connection randomly, depending on what gateway is used for that 
> > connection.
> > 
> > Thomas

I would assume the rest of your network would be running some kind of route
monitoring protocol (OSPF, RIP, etc).  Could you not just run gated and
listen in?  That would be the easiest way IMO.  Lots of info on the subject,
google is your friend.  HTH.

******************
Tom Steele
Comm/Systems Engineer
Children's Hospital
Omaha, NE
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-27 16:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-27  9:45 [LARTC] question re: dead gateway detection Thomas Vander Stichele
2002-03-27 13:15 ` Vincent AE Scott
2002-03-27 13:59 ` Thomas Vander Stichele
2002-03-27 16:22 ` Steele, Tom [this message]
2002-03-29 10:26 ` Thomas Vander Stichele

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