Networking help

[Marc Evans]

I use multiple default gateways on many 2.4.x linux systems. They work
fine, and provide decent failover when routers go down for whatever
reason. You may find it useful to contrast that with "ip route show" to
see more details about the routing rules though.

- Marc

On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Derek Martin wrote:

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> On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 03:48:46PM -0500, pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> > >Are those multiple default routes,
> >
> > Yes,
> >
> > >which would be b0rken?
> >
> > Not under Linux, at least IME with multi-homed systems.
>
> My experience is different.  We had this problem at MCL with several
> systems.  Kenny will back me up, I'm sure (I'm pretty sure he had this
> problem with the CA firewall).  FWIW, _NONE_ of our multi-homed
> systems in production had multiple default routes, for exactly that
> reason.  I saw to that.
>
> - --
> Derek D. Martin
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