[nsp] Redundant Default gateway

[Pylko, Eric]

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher McCrory [mailto:chrismcc@pricegrabber.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 9:02 AM
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] Redundant Default gateway


Hello...

On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 09:04, Christopher McCrory wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 20:51, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:48:10PM -0500, Richard Walsh wrote:
> > > That's what I thought. The clients point to the router as their
gateway,
> > > and the router points to a firewall on the same ethernet segment. If
the
> > > firewall goes down, protocol is still up. Is there a way for the
router
> > > to determine that it's default gateway is no longer valid, and then
> > > switch over to a secondary route? Thanks Jared!!
> > 
> > 	Run ospf or something similar on the firewall.  Have it announce
> 
> It would be real nice if the Cisco PIX would support OSPF :)

Supposedly PIX s/w version 6.3 is supposed to support OSPF.  Of course, I
have
no idea when that is supposed to be released nor the level of OSPF support
that is going to be included.

-Eric

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