From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Laurens van Alphen" Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:32:14 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Dead gateway detection Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: lartc@vger.kernel.org Hi, I installed the routing patches at http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/~julian/#routes for Linux 2.4.19 and have a few questions: Q1: In the Nano-HOWTO on your site, it says to include these statements: "ip route append prohibit default table metric 1 proto static" Why? What does it do? If I use these I can't connect to the Internet, without them I can. Q2: I have the following multipath route to the Internet: "default proto static nexthop via GW1 dev eth1 weight 1 nexthop via GW2 dev eth2 weight 1" If I unplug eth2 the second route is never marked as 'dead', why? Only if I 'ifconfig eth2 down' the second route is marked dead. I thought the patches would detect this? Thanks, -- Laurens van Alphen Keen on dots _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/