Re: Multi-active devices

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 18:44 -0600, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
>     What support is planned for multiple gateways? I build firewalls 
> that don't run X (so no runlevel 5 here), with the recent CLI support, I 
> might just try to use NM in the future. I setup multi-gateway (2+ ISPs) 
> support using my own scripts or Shorewall's built-in support. I have had 
> a small hand in the development of Shorewall's multi-isp support, and 
> the supporting of the same on Shorewall's mailing list. In past have 
> submitted patches to initscripts for this support (BZ171763), I have 
> working experence with iproute and what is needed to make this work in 
> real life, is there any interest in having NM support this?

What sort of configuration setup do you need?  I committed the multiple
active device support to NM SVN trunk this weekend; each device is now
independent and can be active/inactive irrespective of any other device.
Do you need complicated routing setup or other interface-specific
parameters?

Dan