<<On Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:57:43 +1200, "Matthew Luckie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> The gateway's IP address actually refers to two different machines.
> Naturally the gateway is used quite a bit, and the syslog fills up with "arp
> X moved from Y to Z on fxp0" messages.
That's really not the right way to do it, and probably doesn't balance
the load as well as you might think it would. The right way to do it
is to advertise a single *multicast* MAC address, allocated out of the
local MAC space (i.e., first two bits 11), and have both routers join
the group; then both will get all the packets and can decide which
ones to forward. This gives you automatic fail-over trivially.
-GAWollman
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