Forcing a packet through an interface (OT?)

[John Von Essen]

Mario,

I think the only way to do what you want is to find two hosts on the
internet that don't conflict with what you do on a day to day basis. Then
add custom routes for those two specific hosts, and with those routes, you
force traffic through each NIC.

A perfect example of two public servers would be time or whois servers.
Just be nice and dont ping too much (i.e., only send two "small" pings
every 2 minutes or something).

-john

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Mario Lobo wrote:

> Yeah Stefan. They do take the default route. That is what I am already doing.
>
> I even wrote a little prog using a variation of ping to do just that.
>
> The problem lies with the fact that, there is a router between my rl0 and the internet.
>
> 1) rl0 -----------> router ----------> antenna ------>  ISPx ------> internet
>
> So the fact that i can ping the hop next to rl0 doesn´t mean the link is up :(.
>
> That is why I NEED to ping something on the internet.
>
> Thanks,
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> On 12 Jul 2005 at 15:48, stsp at stsp.in-berlin.de wrote:
>
> > In case you got a static IP on rl0 from ISP x (and rl0 is up),
> >
> > 	ping -I <IP of rl0> www.google.com
> >
> > might help.
> >
> > Just a guess though. Packets might still take the default route, even with -I.
> >
> > Good luck,
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