[LARTC] Multi-path routing only using last nexthop in default route.

[Julian Anastasov]

	Hello,

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Jody Shumaker wrote:

> ${IP} route add default table 221 proto static \
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW2} dev ${EXTIF2} weight 1\
>             nexthop via ${EXTGW1} dev ${EXTIF1} weight 5
>
> With this command, connections going out from my network always seem to use
> the GW1 route.  I if I reverse the order of the nexthop's to list GW1 first
> and GW2 second, then the reverse happens and all outgoign connections use
> GW2.  I'm going to attempt to test this better by attempting a large number
> of connections to a large list of ip's, but in running this setup I've never
> seen it use both gateway's.

	Do you have script to ping/arping the gateways on eth device(s)?
The NOARP devices are always preferred if the GWs on ARP devices are
not marked reachable in ARP cache.

Regards

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Julian Anastasov <ja at ssi.bg>