From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jamal Subject: Re: [PATCH] iputils: ping by mark Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:30:35 -0400 Message-ID: <1255782635.11213.7.camel@dogo.mojatatu.com> References: <1255381558.5406.33.camel@dogo.mojatatu.com> <7e84ed60910161405i2ce46053m9858b7f1c086e6b7@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: hadi@cyberus.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Rob.Townley@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f194.google.com ([209.85.221.194]:39269 "EHLO mail-qy0-f194.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751092AbZJQMdh (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:33:37 -0400 Received: by qyk32 with SMTP id 32so1972527qyk.4 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:33:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <7e84ed60910161405i2ce46053m9858b7f1c086e6b7@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 16:05 -0500, Rob Townley wrote: > Would this make it easier to ping multiple gateways yes. You need to set your policy routing accordingly to have a different gateway for the same destination and then use the -m to select the routing table.. > so if one goes > down, it is taken almost out of the routing table until it comes back > up. I am not sure i followed or see any relation to the first part of your question. Ive never heard of routing table entries automagically being taken down until something comes up. You could do it probably by writting a user space daemon. cheers, jamal