Todo #1521
Investigate FreeBSD route metric support for future versions
| Status: | New | Start date: | 05/12/2011 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 0% |
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| Category: | Routing | |||
| Target version: | Future | |||
| Affected version: | All | Affected Architecture: | All |
Description
It would be nice to have multiple gateways for a given route with metrics that get properly respected for route preference, without the need for a dynamic routing protocol.
This would make a lot of things easier:- Multiple "default" gateways with an order of preference handled purely in the routing table, and the ability to round-robin traffic if two routes have the same metric
- Multiple gateways/paths to a single remote network that can failover gracefully without the need for a dynamic routing protocol
- And many more.
This is mainly a note to check in on this in the future (2.1, 2.2, way beyond). Perhaps involving ECMP as well.