Re: fallback default gateway

From: Edwin Chiu (Edwin.Chiu@e-wares.com)
Date: Tue Sep 12 2000 - 10:53:07 EST


So if I have rules where subnet A uses default gw AA and subnet B uses default gw
BB, is this considered a multipath route? I plan on implementing rule sets to
determine which subnets and hosts go through which gateway.

Regards,
Edwin

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.



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