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From: rene@geveke.nl (Rene van der Hauw)
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Date: 14 Apr 91 22:59:20 GMT
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subject: setting a default gateway and having no backup!!!

Dear people.

First I like to thank everybody who responded to my mail about
the subnet problem. 

Now I am having a problem concerning backup facilities. When 
installing a host on a network, the default gateway has to be
set. 

I have got the following stituation:

                          Host
                           |
         --------------------------------------
               |                       |
             router1                 router2
               |                       |
         --------------------------------------
                           |
                        Server

When I am installing on the host the IP address of the router1, I
can make a connection to the server. But what is going to happen
when this router1 is going down? ICMP is not responsible for the
solution, because only when there is a better router for a special
network ICMP will send a redirect. The only way to solve this is  
implementing RIP (routed or gated). I can do this on a unix machine,
but I don't know a DOS machine with this software.

I have heart that at this moment there is a brand-new RFC which is 
having a solution for this problem. I like to know which RFC it is,
and what other kind of solutions there has been it the past. Some
trics acting as workarounds

Looking forward to your reply,

Rene van der Hauw
Geveke electronics
hogehilweg 5
1101 CA Amsterdam
(31)-5675558

  


Rene van der Hauw


Geveke electronics
Amsterdam
The Netherlands.

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