To achieve the goal of primary path only, you can heavily weight one path over the other, some traffic will still spill into the other, you can remove the equalize parameter to disable this behaviour, if you take a look at the linux advanced routing howto there are lots of options to play with.. P. Peter Farrow wrote: > You can add a second route and weight it as follows: > ip route add equalize 192.168.2.0/24 scope global nexthop via > 192.168.0.254 dev eth0 weight 1 nexthop via 192.168.0.250 dev eth0 > weight 1 > > This assumes that: > > both gateways are connected to eth0 on your linux box > You want equal traffic weight down each gateway to the remote network.... > > Regards > > P. > > > > Indunil Jayasooriya wrote: >> Hi , >> >> I have a network to reach which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24>. >> It is a branch of the company. I have currently added a route to that >> network via one gateway ( *MailScanner warning: numerical links are >> often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 <http://192.168.0.254>) in following >> way. >> >> ip route add *MailScanner warning: numerical links are often >> malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 <http://192.168.2.0/24> via *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.254 >> <http://192.168.0.254> >> >> Now, We got another gateway which is *MailScanner warning: numerical >> links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 <http://192.168.0.250>. Now >> I want to add a route to the same network which is *MailScanner >> warning: numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.2.0/24 >> <http://192.168.2.0/24> via this gateway (*MailScanner warning: >> numerical links are often malicious:* 192.168.0.250 >> <http://192.168.0.250>) as well. >> >> Then I will have 2 paths to the same network. One path should be >> primary and the other path should be backup. everything should go >> via primary path. >> >> if the primary path goes down, the backup path should be active. >> >> That is the purpose of doing this. >> >> Pls let me know whether it is possible or not? >> >> if possible, How can I achieve this goal. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Thank you >> Indunil Jayasooriya >> >> -- >> This message has been scanned for viruses and >> dangerous content by the *Enhancion* <http://www.enhancion.net/> >> system scanner, >> and is believed to be clean. >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by the Enhancion system Scanner and is believed to be clean. http://www.enhancion.net