[LARTC] A complicated routing scenario (for me at least)

[Arthur van Leeuwen arthurvl@sci.kun.nl]

<PRE>On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Whit wrote:

&gt;<i> Andrew,
</I>
&gt;<i> I'm awfully glad you're asking these questions, since I'm contemplating a
</I>&gt;<i> similar setup and am not yet to that wonderful place where this presently
</I>&gt;<i> obscure new technology resolves into clarity. So I'll be trying to follow
</I>&gt;<i> along closely as you work out your scheme.
</I>
Hey, I've never done stuff like Andrew's proposing either. It's cool. I want
to know if it'll work. :)

&gt;<i> One question I have, in addition to those you're asking, is whether iproute2
</I>&gt;<i> in itself is adequate to handle fallover routing when one of the outside
</I>&gt;<i> links goes down - that is, can it just be set up with lower priority rules
</I>&gt;<i> to route the other way, or does something like mon
</I>&gt;<i> (<A HREF="http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/">http://www.kernel.org/software/mon/</A>) need to be set up to actively change
</I>&gt;<i> the routing tables when an outside line goes down?
</I>
Hmmm. Methinks that with the preferences associated with routes and the
effects of neighbor unreachability detection this should work. This 
remark is wholly untested, though.

Doei, Arthur. 

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