From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Damion de Soto Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 06:29:25 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] default route 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 Payal Rathod wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible to use more than one default route? I believe yes. > Any comments on them. If I use more than one, where will the trafficc be > diverted from? That's a good question. I was going to answer your other post, but did some tests which contradicted what I was going to say. I originally thought if you had two default routes on the same metric, traffic would just go out the first one, however, when I tried this earlier, I started losing packets, so I can only assume the packets were going out the other route, and then getting lost. anyone comment on this ? If you use the ip route tool to created multiple weighted or equalized default routes, you then use source-based routing to make sure that the traffic goes back out the same route it came in on. (unless you're trying to be tricky with asymetrical routing) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Damion de Soto - Software Engineer email: damion@snapgear.com SnapGear --- ph: +61 7 3435 2809 | Custom Embedded Solutions fax: +61 7 3891 3630 | and Security Appliances web: http://www.snapgear.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- Free Embedded Linux Distro at http://www.snapgear.org --- _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/