Re: Routing

[Sean Porterfield <sporter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Bipes wrote:

> I have two routes to a remote location.  One is faster than the other.  We
> set up the routing table as such:  As400 1 = 10.10.1.1, As400 2 = 10.10.2.1
> Destination     Subnet          Hop             Available       Metric  Dup
> Rte Pty
> 10.10.1.0       255.255.255.0   10.10.1.200     *YES    2               5
> 10.10.1.0       255.255.255.0   10.10.1.201     *YES    3               5
>
> The other end:
> Destination     Subnet          Hop             Available       Metric  Dup
> Rte Pty
> 10.10.2.0       255.255.255.0   10.10.2.200     *YES    2               5
> 10.10.2.0       255.255.255.0   10.10.2.201     *YES    3               5
>
> The WAN ports on 10.10.1.200 is connected to 10.10.2.200
> The WAN ports on 10.10.1.201 is connected to 10.10.2.201
>
> Now why would a trace show as400 1 using 200 and a trace from as400 2 using
> 201?  Also when one route dropped today, AS400 2 did not switch routes.
> The failure was at AS400 1 side of the network.


I tried to do the same thing.  In my case, the route would never change 
unless I had different duplicate route priorities on the routes.

Of course, what I'd really like to do is use both at the same time 
instead of getting capped on one or the other.  (We mirror data between 
two systems and get a backlog during nightly processing.)