hi ya aphro/phil this same almost exact same concept just went thru the firewall mailing list.... - same conclusions...
their ideas is to let the routers do the NATing and "Load balance the external routes using EIGRP or OSPF" search the firewall archives for: http://lists.gnac.net/firewalls/archive.html .... "Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 09:59:08 +1000" "Cc: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" "Subject: RE: Multi-homed Internet connection" .... oh well alvin i guess i'm stubborn... i dont see why a laptop can make a connection via ppp and/or eth0 if in the office... with the same fixed routing table... - the laptop connects thru either one...( the one that works ? ) in this case...we have 2 T1 wires...should be similar network issue... but its not.... On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Phil Brutsche wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > hi. > > > > i have this setup on 2 machines > > > > > > Machine A > > \ eth0 ---> Switch --> Router A(65.xxx.xx.x.x) --> Internet > > \ eth1 --> Switch --> Router B (63.xx.x.x.x.x) --> Internet > > > > Machine B > > \ eth0 --> Switch --> Router A (65.xx.x.x.x.x) --> internet > > \ eth1 --> Switch --> Router B (63.xx.x.x.x) --> internet > > > > what i can't figure out is how to get it so if one route fails it will > > take the other. > > Generally BGP is the way to do it. However, unless you have a /24- sized > address space assigned by ICANN or whoever does it these days people won't > even talk to you. > > > i have routed installed but im not sure if it will do what i want. > > I think it can but only if your routers send out RIP packets :) If they > don't, can't, or whatever then routed obviously won't work. > > > what i have: > > > > /sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw MY_GATEWAY metric 0 > > /sbin/route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw ALT_GATEWAY metric 1 > > > > > > so i ssh to a machien it shows me comming from MY_GATEWAY's ip > > network. so i unplug the router, and try to ssh. nothing. try > > to ping using -i, nothing. once i remove the route to MY_GATEWAY > > i can ping/ssh again. each interface has a different IP address. > > its not really multihomed in the sense that to the outside world > > i have 1 ip address and it can be reached through either provider > > (2 different T1 providers) i just want failover route setup. > > For incoming traffic (ie redundancy for a mail server) or outgoing > traffic? > > If you want redundancy for outgoing traffic I would think your trick with > routes above would work. But they don't... unless you forgot a step. > Try setting "spoofprotect=no" in /etc/network/options, reboot, and try > again. > > If *that* doesn't work, I'm sorry to say that you're out of luck :( > Anything else you can come up with is a pure hack and prone to failure. > > Incoming traffic is much easier :) Install the iproute2 package and read > the Advanced Routing HOWTO, particularly the bit about policy routing. > > [...] > > > oh and im running debian 2.2r3/linux.2.2.19 on 1 machine > > and debian testing(a month or so old) with 2.2.19 on the > > other. > > > > maybe there is another 'routing daemon' that i could use? > > GNU Zebra but it needs RIP (which you can't get) or BGP to work. > > - -- > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > GPG fingerprint: 9BF9 D84C 37D0 4FA7 1F2D 7E5E FD94 D264 50DE 1CFC > GPG key id: 50DE1CFC > GPG public key: http://tux.creighton.edu/~pbrutsch/gpg-public-key.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Made with pgp4pine > > iD8DBQE7SlID/ZTSZFDeHPwRAhhIAJsGjgYPTe8tuh4Ljlwrsx5/sJFBkwCeILn1 > zIE07nEMKIHBZ5/KuvdjBPA= > =Btfd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >