> Generally BGP is the way to do it. BGP is outta the question for me..i asked cisco about that a couple months ago and they said 128MB was minimum for BGP on routers..my routers have 8MB each ..
> I think it can but only if your routers send out RIP packets :) If > they don't, can't, or whatever then routed obviously won't work. yeah thats what it looks like. so hopefully i can find something other then routed. i dont want to enable rip, this should be a very basic routing thing. its not like it needs to be dynamic its either gateway A or B if A is down. not very complicated!! > For incoming traffic (ie redundancy for a mail server) or outgoing > traffic? outgoing traffic. > > If you want redundancy for outgoing traffic I would think your > trick with routes above would work. But they don't... unless you > forgot a step. Try setting "spoofprotect=no" in > /etc/network/options, reboot, and try again. i'll try that. thanks! > Incoming traffic is much easier :) Install the iproute2 package > and read the Advanced Routing HOWTO, particularly the bit about > policy routing. outgoing should be easier!! incoming i can see how it could cause problems as each ip is on a totally different network different isp etc.. > GNU Zebra but it needs RIP (which you can't get) or BGP to work. i can enable rip but i reeeeeeeeeeeealy dont want to for something this simple.(or which should be) thanks! nate