:-)<br><br>This is precisely the question that I have been myself thinking since yesterday. I thought of going back to routing fundamentals to see if there is a good answer. So far I have not been able to think of anything except a 'not so clean hack' that would sound soemthing like this:
<br><br>1. Write a script to ping (dyn-gw already does this) on the default WAN interface.<br>2. If Pings succeed dont do anything<br>3. If ping fails then delete the default route.<br> - This is the part you were talking about. HOW DO I RECOVER??
<br> - Since if I delete the route then the pings are not going out of this interface anyways.<br>4. The hack is as follows:<br> - every 5 mins add the default route.<br> - test ping through that interface<br> - if successful then leave it
<br> - else, delete the default route again.<br><br>I know this is BAAAAAAAAAAAD, but all I want is that I should use the OLSR link only as a redundancy mechanism. Whereing if my DSL/Cable connection dies then I use my neighbors (who would be running olsr too of course) to reach the internet.
<br><br>Thanks,<br>Rajesh.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/11/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bernd Petrovitsch</b> <<a href="mailto:bernd@firmix.at">bernd@firmix.at</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 12:15 -0800, Rajesh Narayanan wrote:<br>> Well, thats right and exactly the problem I am having.<br>> Even when the pings do not go through via the static route, the router<br>> does not route the pings via the route introduced by the OLSR. But
<br>> when I manually remove the static route, the pings are successful.<br>><br>> My question is that this process should be transparent to the user. I<br>> should<br>> not need to go remove the static route so that I can reach via the
<br>> olsr route.<br><br>How do you think the box (which just detected the upstream loss) should<br>detect the recovery *of it's own* upstream link afterwards?<br><br>[ Killed useless fullquote ]<br><br> Bernd
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