Re: fallback default gateway

From: Dr. Michael Weller (eowmob@exp-math.uni-essen.de)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 03:40:23 EST

On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Linux does regular unicast ARP probes to maintain its neighbour states
> unless it gets feedback from upper layers, e.g. TCP ACKs or MSG_CONFIRM.
> When a neighbour goes suspect it tries other default routes.
>
> This unfortunately only works for default routes currently, not for
> multipath routes.

Ah.. IC, indeed a nice feature.
> RFC2461 is a good reference. Linux 2.2 uses the same algorithms for IPv4.

You learn something new every day. 

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