[RndTbl] Enabling Linux failover routing

[John Lange]

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.

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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
>