[LARTC] does metric in route works?

Hello I would like to know how does metric work for now. I'm trying to use it for "failover". if my nexthop (gateway) is down i want another route with bigger metric to be used. for now all in vain. :( are there any implementation of metric in current routing mechanism?? PoltoS/ __

Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

;What your are trying to do is called "directed broadcast", and the linux ;networking gods believe it is evil (i.e. a security hole) and should not ;be implemented by routers. See ;http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/net/9707.3/0030.html for example. ; Eran. ;Poltorak

Re: [LARTC] routing broadcast messages

1, m.n.o.p ]-m.n.o.w <---pings are going in that direction So, packets are going TO their subnet. Any idea??? thanks, PoltoS/ On Wed, 10 Jul 2002, bert hubert wrote: ;On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 04:35:16AM +0400, Poltorak Serguei wrote: ;> Hello. ;> ;> I would like to ro

[LARTC] routing broadcast messages

Hello. I would like to route broadcast messages. For now, if I ping a.b.c.255 from m.n.o.w the packet is passing through each router, except the last, a.b.c.1 (m.n.o.p, other "external" address) and only he replys to that packet, but not from a.b.c.1, he does it from m.n.o.p address (logic, it's

[LARTC] compiling tc on ETRAX (fwd)

Hello. I would like to compile iproute2 utility suite for Etrax 100LX processors (www.axis.com). I compiled it, but after running tc i found a problem. tc doesn't recognize qdiscs. ex: [root@axis /var]67# ./tc qdisc add cbq help Unknown qdisc "cbq", hence option "help" is unparsable I've a loo