[ale] Redudant links

[Jonathan Rickman]

On 19 Sep 2002, cfowler wrote:

> Okay,
>
> We know that cable modem and DSL links have their problems.  A freind of
> mine has DSL and cable modem.  He would like to somehow have redudant
> links.  He has both coming into a firewall and one interface going to
> the switch for the private subnet.  It seems you can only have one
> default gateway.  Does anyone know how this is possible?  Other than a
> heartbeat script?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>

Different routing metrics for each link on the firewall should do the
trick. The FW will need to be the def GW. The FW will try the link with
the lowest metric first, then the other.

--
Jonathan Rickman
X Corps Security
http://www.xcorps.net


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