[c-nsp] Host default route best practice?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:46:47AM -0700, Bruce Robertson wrote:
> Hi, folks.  What's the consensus these days for maintaining redundant
> default routes for hosts?  IRDP?  Run quagga and inject a default via iBGP?
> Something else?  Thanks!

We do HSRP.  

Seems to work well, and doesn't need extra software on the host.

Drawback is that it uses up an additional IP address (compared to a 
dynamic routing protocol, and two, compared to "just a single gateway").

gert
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