Sean, What do you base this on? Google turns up plenty of references to the gc_timeout method of failover but none are specific on what they mean by "when a route dies". I can't think of any reason why the kernel would care if the route timed out because the link was down or because the route was down for some other reason. -- John Lange President OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872 VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 07:38 -0500, Sean A. Walberg wrote:
On Tue, 10 May 2005, John Lange wrote:
Now your Linux machine is ready to serve as a failover router, automatically and quickly switching to the secondary route every time the primary route fails.
Unfortunately this seems to only monitor link status, which is a terrible inidicator of a connection's health. Cable, DSL, and LAN extension don't pass along the link status.
Sean