Re: sla with source route

Jean-Denis Gorin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.wizards
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Lawrence,

I have seen no response to you question, so:
 1. never use source route as an operationnal solution: a lot of security boxes
(hard and soft) and OSes drop packets with source route option. This kind of
packet is VERY dangerous.
 2. why don't u use BGP to solve your problem?

JDG


Selon Lord Sporkton <[email protected]>:
>
> I wanted to do a double wan with a source route with an sla or similar
>
> i want a certain IP to use a certain outbound connection unless that
> connection is down at which time i want it to use a different
> connection
>
> I was looking into doing this with a source route tied to SLA,
> something like any from hostA next hop wan1 track blahhh
>
> but wasnt sure on the specifics? should i policy match on a route? and
> then track on that route with sla? or other?
>
> this is just something spinning in my head, im going to do a mock test
> in a day or so but wanted to ask if anyone has done something like
> this. in this case the policy route is needed as normal traffic will
> go out a different connection and the specific ip/traffic that will be
> source routed
>
> thank you
> Lawrence
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