[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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