Ed Greshko wrote:
> carlopmart wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>>  I have installed a lab environment with two different firewalls on
>> it to communicate with another production environment. In this test
>> enviroment, I have setup five servers: three with rhel5 and two with
>> rhel4.
>>
>> As I said earlier, in this environment exists two firewalls to
>> provide communication to another LAN's: fw1 and fw2. Where is the
>> problem?. The problem is as follows: sometimes fw1 is up (but
>> sometimes not) and sometimes fw2 is up (and sometimes not). I need to
>> monitor network interfaces but how can I configure policy routing on
>> this five servers to detect which firewall is up and insert the
>> correct default route?? I need similar funcionality that ifstated
>> provides on OpenBSD
>> (http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=ifstated&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=OpenBSD+Current&arch=i386&format=html).
>
>
> Are fw1 and fw2 ever up at the same time?

No. Only one firewall is up.

>
> Why not use RIP and let the FW's advertise routes via RIP? I've not
> done that in a while....but it used to be gated but now I hear quagga is
> what you'd use.

Well, I will try it ...
>
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