Re: Did no one ever realize a Backup-Route with OpenBSD ???

["Arvid Grøtting" <arvidg@netfonds.no>]

Toni Mueller <openbsd-tech@oeko.net> writes:

> btw, _why_ can't I have two (or 3 or 4) default routes, other than
> that nobody already implemented it?

The usual answer to that around here is "use a routing protocol
instead".

I find that answer a bit less than satisfactory, as I:

- don't want to run a routing protocol on my OpenBSD *hosts*, and

- can't run VRRP on my OpenBSD *routers*.

Yet I *do* want a backup route out of my hosts -- a short while from
now, my OpenBSD hosts will be the only points that a single router
failure would take off the net.  Along with a webcam or two, that is.

I'll duplicate the hosts in question eventually, of course, and let
their default routes pass through different routers.  Which is a good
thing anyway -- the host itself could fail.  Still, I'd like to have
that one little tool in my toolkit.  All of my networks have -- or
will have -- two (generic) gateways (running OpenBSD, mostly).  Why
shouldn't my OpenBSD hosts get to know about them both?

-- 

Arvid