Failover default route?

Bill Moran wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Sat Aug 18 08:19:08 PDT 2007


"Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET" <ml at t-b-o-h.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> 	I know its been talked about before, did 1/2 an
> hour of Google... 
> 
> 	In my case, as always, its a bit "special". I have
> 2 OPENVPN tunnels, which I sent over different transits to
> the same end host. On that host, I do my NAT. SO, without
> getting into all sorts of hot/heavy things, is there a simple
> program to install to ping something via the first tunnel,
> and if it can't then switch my default route to the second
> tunnel? Or, do I just use a script like here :

The protocols designed to handle this are things like RIP and BGP.

However, in a case like yours, where you control both ends of things,
it's probably better to just use a script.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.

wmoran at collaborativefusion.com
Phone: 412-422-3463x4023


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