Re: [LARTC] Routing with two providers

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

On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Jason A. Pattie wrote:

> Arthur van Leeuwen wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Martin Ferrari - Decidir IT wrote:
> >
> >Yes, Julian's patches do have an influence on multipath routing. They make
> >it quite a bit nicer to use in the case of interfaces going down and coming
> >back up again, which can and does happen. They also make multipath routing
> >and masquerading play even nicer with each other, although I haven't seen
> >problems on stock kernels with that. May very well be that the tests I've
> >done have been on networks with highly active but not highly demanding i
> >users, thereby making sure the route cache stays up to date enough...
> >don't really know.
> >
> >Doei, Arthur.
> >
> The only problem that I have had with Julian's patches is interoperation
> with FreeS/WAN.  I am still not able to make that work, although I
> haven't worked on it in awhile.  The last I remember is that with the
> patches applied, the moment FreeS/WAN starts, all network traffic goes
> out the ipsec0 interface instead of continuing to be routed via eth0 (or
> whichever interface).  This happens without a tunnel brought up.  And
> for some reason, I was not able to assign a metric to the route using
> either the 'route' command or 'ip route'.

Sorry, can't help you there. Never played with that particular setup...

Doei, Arthur.

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