From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:21:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:21:20 -0400 Received: from quechua.inka.de ([212.227.14.2]:18492 "EHLO mail.inka.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:21:02 -0400 From: Bernd Eckenfels To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: route problem.. kernel/driver ? In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: ka.lists.linux.kernel User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.39 (i686)) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 01:21:09 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing In article you wrote: > After doing the same research I've been doing the past week or so.. I'm > coming back to the conclusion that you "can't" have two default routes. > Which doesn't explain why it works at all. You can have two default routes. In one case you have different metrics, then only the one with the smaller metric is used. This is good for situations where the better route may get dropped (link down). Yu can have also 2 default routes to the same destination, it is called equal cost multi route and a kernel option, used for load balancing. any other configurations are great problem. It is related to the route cache, why it did worked. route -C Greetings Bernd