Re: Using FreeBSD as a router

Josh Paetzel wrote:
I've never actually tried getting FBSD to grap it's own routing
information from a routing protocol but it's possible you could go
down that route as well...


OSPF wouldn't be a bad choice here. You could even do ECMP if needed. Once the ospf adjacency is setup (and assuming its a DR or BDR) it will route everything out that interface even without a default gateway. OSPF will populate the FreeBSD routing table with the appropriate information.

For redundancy, if the link goes down it will automatically fail over and if there's a software problem or similar on the other end the ospf timeouts should kick in and start routing via the other DR or through the BDR.

Regards,

Chris
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