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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.sys.cisco
Subject: Re: setting a default gateway and having no backup!!! (was Re: (none))
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.052447.13292@Think.COM>
Date: 16 Apr 91 05:24:47 GMT
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In article <34180@boulder.Colorado.EDU> rene@geveke.nl (Rene van der Hauw) writes:
>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?

>I have heart that at this moment there is a brand-new RFC which is 
>having a solution for this problem.

It's about 18 months old, so it's not "brand-new", but RFC1122, one of the
Requirements for Internet Hosts RFCs, says that a host must support the
ability to configure more than one default gateway, which it should cycle
through when necessary.
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Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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