LARTC! (adrian's home)

Well, after doing some reading, patching wolverine's kernel with patches from Julian Anastasov, and following some instructions from Christoph Simon, wolverine now fully supports dead-gateway detection and alternative routes properly. This means that if one of the links goes down (well, actually, if the kernel discovers that the immediate next hop goes away), all routes through that device are marked as "dead", and alternative routes (if defined) are used to route traffic instead. Once the link comes back up, it can then be used again. Yet another doc to write. :) Although the two links above are a good source of information, I'd still like to find time to write up what worked for me.
I haven't tested extensively, but I pulled the plug on my DSL modem, and waited about a minute, and then found that traffic was all subsequently routed via my cable modem. w00t!

Went to play some pool tonight with Tony, which was fun. Played 8 ball for a bit, and then he took me to school when we switched to 9 ball. Ah well. It was a good night.

Have some errands to run tomorrow morning, and we're planning to try to get out to see "Vanilla Sky".

LARTC!

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