barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) (04/16/91)
In article <34180@boulder.Colorado.EDU> rene@geveke.nl (Rene van der Hauw) writes: >When I am installing on the host the IP address of the router1, I >can make a connection to the server. But what is going to happen >when this router1 is going down? >I have heart that at this moment there is a brand-new RFC which is >having a solution for this problem. It's about 18 months old, so it's not "brand-new", but RFC1122, one of the Requirements for Internet Hosts RFCs, says that a host must support the ability to configure more than one default gateway, which it should cycle through when necessary. -- Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp. barmar@think.com {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar