> >
> > > As said by the 4.4 BSD book (page 423), 4.4 BSD does not support multiple
> > > routes to the same destination (identical key and mask). Does the radix
> > > tree code in FreeBSD - 4.0 has the same limitation? I am wondering if
> > > there is already a solution for this?
> >
> > How would the routing code use multiple routes? You'd need additional
> > rules to determine how to use them (e.g. round-robin for load
> > balancing).
IIRC there was some patches around a long time ago to do this kind of
thing.
>
> Or assign them a weight. When the link goes down, the routes attached to
> this interface decrease in weight by NN. If there is any other route to
> the same destination with greater weight, the packets are sent that way
> instead.
But can't gated do this? (Or any other routing daemon for that matter.)
You don't need kernel support to do this.
John
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