alternative routing - deadlock?

[Dinesh Nair]

On 02/03/06 21:32 D said the following:
> on freebsd box such a simple situation(see below) seems to be pretty complicated:
> 
> 
> ISP1[10.10.10.1][1Mbps]<-------------------->[ME-em0][10.10.10.10]
> ISP2[11.11.11.1][8Mbps]---------------------->[ME-em1][11.11.11.11]
> default route 10.10.10.1
> 
> any traffic "from ME to ISP2" will fail or will be redirected via ISP1.

what exactly does 'netstat -rn' show ?

> alternative routing function should allow us to add another static route:
> default route 11.11.11.1

freebsd doesnt yet support multiple default routes, though you could use 
something like CARP and pf to implement some sort of load 
balancing/redundant link architecture.

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