Re: trouble setting up routing

Yes, thank you.  I probably should have replied earlier to my own
message to the list, but I did get a couple private replies that pointed
me at "ip_enable_group_ifs".

That was, as you point out below, exactly what I needed.

Thanks to you and all those who replied (who should also have each
gotten a private reply)!

Jim




On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Thomas-Martin Kruel wrote:

    Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 17:14:16 +0200
    From: Thomas-Martin Kruel <[email protected]>
    To: James M Galvin <[email protected]>
    Cc: [email protected]
    Subject: Re: trouble setting up routing

    Dear Jim,


    It is possible to have multiple default routes on a system. This
    works for us since long (AFAIR from Solaris 7 on).

    Which path is selected for outbound packets is determined by the
    IRE (the internal IP routing entry).

    For instance, if you have two interfaces, say hme0 and hme1, you
    can view the routing entries for each of the interfaces by

       # netstat -ra | grep hme0   (or hme1)

    The output looks like:

    Routing Table:
      Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref   Use   Interface
    -------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ------ ---------
    tarox4.mbi-berlin.de     --                UHA      1    119  hme1


    That is, a host route pointing to that host 'tarox4' ist installed
    for interface hme1.


    The mechanism on how the outbound interface is selected is determined
    by the variable 'ip_enable_group_ifs'. It can be set by

       # ndd /dev/ip
       name to get/set ?
       ip_enable_group_ifs
       length ?
       value ? 1

    If set to 1, the outgoing interface is selected based on the source
    address of the incoming packet.

    If there is no cached entry, multiple default routes work in a
    round robin fashion. The entries for each destination are
    cached for 20 minutes (can be set by 'ip_ire_flush_interval').

    More information on Interface Groups can be found in SUN InfoDoc 20726.
    Information on how multiple default routes work is in SUN InfoDoc 17516.

    Hope this helps.

    Regards,

    Thomas Kruel
    Network Administrator,
    Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics, Berlin

    ---

    On 30 Jul 2004 at 10:35, James M Galvin wrote:

    > I'm trying to setup a multi-homed host with three network interfaces.  I
    > would like outbound traffic to share the three interfaces equally but
    > I'm having trouble making that happen.  I'd also like to do this more or
    > less statically.
    >
    > [...]
    > Thanks for any help,
    >
    > Jim