[LARTC] Aliases and Multipath

[Damion de Soto]

Guillermo Gomez wrote:

> By the way, what's the behaviour of multipath routing if one of the
> providers goes down ? Should i take care manually to take it out from
> the multipath ?
I think it will still try to be routed out the link that is down.
The linux kernel only removes routes if the actual eth device goes down.
You'll need some way of determining which links are down and removing the routes.

have you read:
http://www.ssi.bg/~ja/nano.txt
You probabaly don't want to use all of that, but some parts will be suitable.

Regards,

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