[RndTbl] Enabling Linux failover routing

Sean A. Walberg sean at ertw.com
Wed May 11 07:38:52 CDT 2005


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

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