[Techtalk] Active vs Passive Routing
Brian Sweeney
bsweeney at physics.ucsb.edu
Wed Sep 5 08:48:11 EST 2001
Hmmm, this piqued my interest too; it seemed like another one of those
gaping holes in my networking knowledge ;-). A quick search on google
for "active passive gateway" gave a bunch of pages. The first two:
http://nim.cit.cornell.edu/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/files/aixfiles/gateways.htm
http://nim.cit.cornell.edu/usr/share/man/info/en_US/a_doc_lib/aixbman/commadmn/tcp_route.htm#A9C0aa29
Seemed to sum things up nicely.
Hope this helps!
-Brian
Subba Rao wrote:
> I am trying to setup an ipsec network connection with a remote network. For
> that I have to setup the gateway information in /etc/gateways. The routed
> man page gives the following syntax for the page.
>
> <net | host> name1 gateway name2 metric value <passive | active | external
> | announced>
>
> What is the difference between an active gateway and a passive gateway? What
> type of gateway is preffered for ipsec setup?
>
> Thanks for any info.
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