Re: TCP/IP Routing on the Iseries

[James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Denis Robitaille wrote:

> - For redundancy, we have two frame link coming in from different path.
>
> - We have a router for each link.
> - If one link goes down (phone pole hit by truck or whaterver), the
> router reroutes the traffic to the other router.
> - But if the router goes down, it is the responsability of the AS/400
> to direct the traffic to the other router.
> - here is my question: I have setup a default route (CFGTCP opt2) to
> link to the first router, how can I program a second default route that
> will be use if the first router is down (for maintenance or  ...)?

If your routers handle incoming traffic appropriately then just adding
another default route to the AS/400 will do it.  But your routers need to
broadcast that there are two routes to your network for this to really
work.

James Rich