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On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 06:39 -0400, Bill Roberts wrote: |
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> On 11:37 Sun 24 Apr , Haim Ashkenazi wrote: |
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> > Hi |
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> > I just came across this article: |
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> > http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/10/2132252&from=rss |
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> > It seems that I was doing things the hard way (using iproute with |
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> > metrics). the one thing I don't understand is how to prefer one route |
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> > over the other (e.g. when one connection is faster). |
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> Haim |
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> Interesting article. |
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> Maybe the order of the routes in the routing table controls? You could |
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> experiment by reversing the order of the two add default gateway |
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> commands. |
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I'll try this one :) |
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> Another possibility would the the eth number, i.e., eth0 is primary, |
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> eth1 is secondary. You could control this by switching cables (and |
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> appropriate ip's) or by controlling the name assigned to each (see |
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> other recent thread in this mail list). |
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> Bill Roberts |
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Haim |
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