LINUX failover between two default gateways

[Derek Atkins]

Yea, clustering the two cisco's into one virtual box would work
as well.  As Derek says, you'd have to share one IP address.

-derek

"Derek D. Martin" <ddm at pizzashack.org> writes:

> At some point hitherto, Derek Atkins hath spake thusly:
> > You need to use dynamic routing on the client.  Look at gated.
> 
> That's an option, but also many Cisco products have failover
> capabilities built into them.  IOW you can link them together, and the
> secondary will automatically take over for the primary if it fails.
> The IP of the gateway will float between them, and generally they'll
> each have their own IP as well.
> 
> IMO this is the better way to solve the problem, because you don't
> have to worry about (re)configuring dozens or hundreds of clients
> correctly to deal with the redundancy.  Just point them all at your
> one gateway IP, and let the routers do the rest.
> 
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