Multiple routes to same destination?

[Webster, Andrew]

I am using Zebra, but it will only keep one route to the same destination in the routing table at any given time, even if there is more than one valid path :( :(
I know that Linux has this built-in, and more searching of the 'Net after posting my initial question revealed that multipath routing is in fact something that many people have been asking for since FreeBSD 3.x.  I was hoping it would have been built into FreeBSD 6 by now.


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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Ian Lord
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 07:22
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Multiple routes to same destination?

Hi,

this is not a scientific answer, but since no one 
else replied, here is what I found a while ago...

When I installed Freebsd 6, i did a lot of 
reseach/posting and found out that there is no 
way freebsd will handle multiple routes to the same destination
I was hoping to have two default routes for 
redundancy (and if possible, load balancing)

I never heard of a kernel patch, and if there was 
one, I wouldn't feel confident with it (just my opinion)

I then went with a routing package (there is 
zebra and quagga) which kinda did the trick. (I 
used quagga since I had some problem setting up zebra from the ports).

It works fine but adds a level of routing that 
could have been handled by the kernel I guess.



At 20:51 2006-02-06, Webster, Andrew wrote:
>Hi,
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>Does FreeBSD 5.x, or 6.0 support multiple routes to the same
>destination?
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>I saw some kernel patches a while back for this on 4.x, but I'd like to
>run something more recent...
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>Thanks!
>
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>
>Andrew
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