From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arthur van Leeuwen arthurvl@sci.kun.nl Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:18:48 +0000 Subject: [LARTC] 2 default gw in redhat 6.2 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, 1 Feb 2001, bert hubert wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:49:11PM -0600, fabian1 wrote:
> > Hola lartc,
> > I have redhat6.2 (kernel 2.2.14), and ipchains.
> > I try to configure 2 default gw:
> >
> > route add default gw 200.10.0.254
> > route add default gw 205.1.0.254 metric 10
> >
> > but when gateway 1 down (lost connection) the default route didn't
> > change to the 2nd gateway. I need any servicice to do this?
>
> Linux is supposed to have something called 'dead gateway detection'

Which it doesn't use when there's a multipath default route. Now, that isn't
technically the case here, so that shouldn't be the problem here.

However, I thought I'd mention it, as others might run into it.

Doei, Arthur.

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