Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread LeighK
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Robert Davidson wrote: > > you want to do some dynamic routing. for that very purpose, zebra with > > bgp comes to mind. > > Hehe.. so does a headache! ;) > > The way I'd do it, be it crude or not, is using the ping command to > send out a couple packets, then if the ping s

Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread Robert Davidson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 03:39:13AM +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Robert Davidson wrote: > > > Anyways, what I'm saying is basically that you could do a similar > > thing. Pinging the gateways would be your best bet I think. > > how do you re-route your address space to the

Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Robert Davidson wrote: > Anyways, what I'm saying is basically that you could do a similar > thing. Pinging the gateways would be your best bet I think. how do you re-route your address space to the new link ? (at the isp [call it so] side, that is) -- [-] ``And there a

Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread Robert Davidson
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:06:38AM +0100, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, LeighK wrote: > > > I have 3 interfaces in my linux box. One goes to the local lan, one goes > > to the internet via T1, and one is a dedicated ppp link through my > > company. I would like to know if there's a

Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread Tamas TEVESZ
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, LeighK wrote: > I have 3 interfaces in my linux box. One goes to the local lan, one goes > to the internet via T1, and one is a dedicated ppp link through my > company. I would like to know if there's any program out there > to detect if the internet ethernet is down, or a

Detecting a down link and rerouting

2001-01-08 Thread LeighK
Hey all, I have 3 interfaces in my linux box. One goes to the local lan, one goes to the internet via T1, and one is a dedicated ppp link through my company. I would like to know if there's any program out there to detect if the internet ethernet is down, or at least is experiencing almost 100% p