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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iputils: ping by mark
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:54:56 -0700
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This patch requires the currently being suggested/reviewed/written
'fix SO_MARK' patches, some of which have already been committed.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:30, jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:
> 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 bac=
k
>> up.
>
> I am not sure i followed or see any relation to the first part of you=
r
> question.
> Ive never heard of routing table entries automagically being taken do=
wn
> until something comes up. You could do it probably by writting a user
> space daemon.
>
> cheers,
> jamal
>
>
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