From: Pascal Hambourg <pascal.mail@plouf.fr.eu.org>
To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: two default routes
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:54:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BA784B2.9030406@plouf.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cfeab66d1003220335y1020f343u14097acc1ee50c09@mail.gmail.com>
Hello,
ratheesh k a écrit :
>
> i have two default routes , I used below two commands to add routes .
>
> route add default gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0 metric 0
> route add default gw 10.232.18.5 dev eth1 metric 1
>
> So 10.232.18.5 will become the default route since it is added
> secondly . All packets are routed to this address.
No. Lower metric wins regardless of route order, so the default gateway
is 192.168.1.1. You can check with "ip route get <destination>".
> Suppose
> 10.232.18.5 machine is down , will the packets will use the next
> default route ?
No, the kernel has no dead gateway detection AFAIK.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-22 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-22 10:35 two default routes ratheesh k
2010-03-22 12:48 ` Richard Horton
2010-03-22 14:54 ` Pascal Hambourg [this message]
2010-03-22 15:05 ` ratheesh k
2010-03-22 15:47 ` Pascal Hambourg
2010-03-22 15:56 ` ratheesh k
2010-03-22 16:53 ` Pascal Hambourg
2010-03-22 16:21 ` Richard Horton
2010-03-22 16:26 ` Jan Engelhardt
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