Routing question -- multiple gateway setup?

[Robert Brockway]

On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, William Park wrote:

> So, my kernel (without "advanced router" section enabled) somehow chose
> the second default route (ppp0).  I would like know how it made that
> decision, and how I can make it more consistent. :-)

Aarrgh, I would so not rely on that :)

I think the whole idea of multiple default routes without using iproute2
is black magic :)  The behaviour could be quite undefined :)

IMHO, sse iproute2 or the method I suggested earlier :)

Since most traffic thesee days goes through a proxy-cache one option is to
load-balance only traffic that is coming from the proxy-cache (so http,
ftp, etc) and not NAT this traffic.  NAT everything else and have it go
through only one interface.

I would have done this as my next step in trialing iproute2 but I was
pretty annoyed by this time (after trampling the obscure bug) and setup
the simple system I am still using.

Rob

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