Haiku Re: [buug] gateway

[johnd]

it takes it...


root at ldev:/home/john# route 
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
localnet        *               255.255.254.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
loopback        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
default         192.168.164.63  0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.164.251 0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0
default         192.168.164.251 0.0.0.0         UG    1      0        0 eth0


it just tries the first one though

(i'm not saying this is the right thing to do, because it's not)


On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:15:04PM -0700, Jon McClintock wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 01:00:06PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > Bob> Two Default Gateways
> > Bob> Lookup finds only first match
> > Bob> Other route unused
> > 
> > Actually, I have some doubts about this.  I think I recall from Stevens'
> > TCP/IP book that some implementations (BSD? Solaris?) choose one or the
> > other route in a round-robin fashion.
> 
> Hmm. All I've got handy is TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol2, and I couldn't find
> a conclusive answer in a few minute's looking. It seemed to imply that
> having two default routes wasn't something that could happen (i.e.,
> setting a default route wipes out any existing default route).
> 
> I'd be interested to see what the output of `route -n` is on your
> system, John.
> 
> -Jon
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