Re: Detecting a down link and rerouting
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Robert Davidson wrote:
> > you want to do some dynamic routing. for that very purpose, zebra with
> > bgp comes to mind.
>
> Hehe.. so does a headache! ;)
>
> The way I'd do it, be it crude or not, is using the ping command to
> send out a couple packets, then if the ping screws up on a certain
> link, then do whatever with the routing table.
That's what I was thinking. I was just sorta suprised no one had written
some cool power daemon to do it already :)
BGP sounded like it would have been, umm... "fun" to setup. Unfortunately,
I'm not a networking expert (yet), still going to college on this stuff,
and fooling with routing scares the heck out of me :)
Thanks for your quick responses.
-Leigh
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