Dear all,
I am about to take delivery of a second leased line on our premises
and I would like to set up a simple redundant routing system.
The setup I envisage is:
--->leased line #1 --->[router]----+
|IP range #1
+--- boxes with IP aliasing
|IP range #2
--->leased line #2 --->[router]----+
where the two leased lines give me different address ranges. What I
have done so far is give IP aliases to some key machines and moved
them over to the new line which has far more bandwidth.
What I would like to use the old leased line as a backup until the
contract expires well into 2001. To do so I wanted something simple
like a second default route with a higher metric which, at least in
the Linux case, is taken up when the lower metric one fails.
Because the routers are not under my control I cannot run any routing
software (e.g. RIP which I am aware is rather insecure) to take care
of this dynamically.
Fundamentally I can do it under Linux but can't quite figure it out
under T64U, should I use /etc/routes and add a second default with a
'metric' parameter?
Thanks,
Arrigo
Received on Mon Oct 02 2000 - 17:03:10 NZDT