FreeBSD network failover

Bruce Simpson bms at incunabulum.net
Tue Dec 16 10:11:20 PST 2008


Randy Bush wrote:
> ...
> freebsd does not allow metrics on static routes, which would be the 
> 'normal' hack.  i.e. you can not have two default routes with 
> different weights.

If you look in my 1 currently owned PRs:
    http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/71474

...this ticket contains a description of how to implement floating 
statics in a hopefully non-sucky way, which is a stepping-stone to being 
able to deal with metrics in a sensible way.

cheers
BMS


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