From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bert hubert ahu@ds9a.nl Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 01:34:15 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] Backup 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 
On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 02:49:33PM -0800, Andrew wrote:

> >     I wan't to do a backup connection with the ADSL link.
> >     With what tools I can do this?
> >     ipchains, iptables, a third party tool?
> > 
> I'm in the middle of doing something very similar. I don't know how often they
> update the archives on this list but the subject on the thread for what I'm
> working on

Linux has a thing called 'dead gateway detection', which might work for you.
Just make two routes with a different metric, should work I think.

Existing sessions will die however because their source IP address is
unroutable.

Regards,

bert hubert

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