RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

You are right, Zebra will keep only one route in freebsd routing table since
Freebsd cannot handle more.

At Least zebra will change that route in the routing table if it detects
some kind of network topology change (depending on the routing protocol)

Best I've been able to reach. I really don't know why freebsd still doesn?t
support that Linux and even windows supports that

:)

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Webster, Andrew
Sent: 8 février 2006 09:11
To: Ian Lord; freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Multiple routes to same destination?

I am using Zebra, but it will only keep one route to the same destination in
the routing table at any given time, even if there is more than one valid
path :( :(
I know that Linux has this built-in, and more searching of the 'Net after
posting my initial question revealed that multipath routing is in fact
something that many people have been asking for since FreeBSD 3.x. I was
hoping it would have been built into FreeBSD 6 by now.


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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ian Lord
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 07:22
To: freebsd-questions@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Multiple routes to same destination?

Hi,

this is not a scientific answer, but since no one
else replied, here is what I found a while ago...

When I installed Freebsd 6, i did a lot of
reseach/posting and found out that there is no
way freebsd will handle multiple routes to the same destination
I was hoping to have two default routes for
redundancy (and if possible, load balancing)

I never heard of a kernel patch, and if there was
one, I wouldn't feel confident with it (just my opinion)

I then went with a routing package (there is
zebra and quagga) which kinda did the trick. (I
used quagga since I had some problem setting up zebra from the ports).

It works fine but adds a level of routing that
could have been handled by the kernel I guess.



At 20:51 2006-02-06, Webster, Andrew wrote:
Hi,



Does FreeBSD 5.x, or 6.0 support multiple routes to the same
destination?

I saw some kernel patches a while back for this on 4.x, but I'd like to
run something more recent...



Thanks!



Andrew


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