Topic: SME Server and Routing Software Suites

[william_syd]

Hi,

Has anyone played with or got working with SME either Quagga or the older Zebra Routing Software Suites?

[CharlieBrady]

Has anyone played with or got working with SME either Quagga or the older Zebra Routing Software Suites?

I'm curious as to why you are asking. SME server usually operates as a peripheral node on the Internet, and has no need for dynamic routing. What problem are you trying to solve?

[jmbac]

I found this site
Installing Quagga on CentOS 4.2
http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://linuxtips.castres-wireless.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D29&usg=ALkJrhgCSzr18vTpWImY-U7gf7xwGSrxOQ

[william_syd]

I'm curious as to why you are asking. SME server usually operates as a peripheral node on the Internet, and has no need for dynamic routing. What problem are you trying to solve?

Actually, there is no problem with SME server. Now having played with it in gateway mode I see I can add "test" subnet as local networks and packets will be routed to it.

I was thinking gateway mode would be similar to Smoothwall, where Smoothwall does not know about other subnets and as such routes packets destined for them out the default gateway instead.

[william_syd]

I found this site
Installing Quagga on CentOS 4.2
http://74.125.93.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=fr&tl=en&u=http://linuxtips.castres-wireless.org/article.php3%3Fid_article%3D29&usg=ALkJrhgCSzr18vTpWImY-U7gf7xwGSrxOQ

Thanks for that. I'm actually playing with the Vyatta opensource router distro at the moment.

www.vyatta.org

[daniel]

Would these packages referred to in this thread allow an SME server to have 2 external ethernet connections to the internet and provide load balancing and failover should one of the two public internet connections go down?

[CharlieBrady]

Would these packages referred to in this thread allow an SME server to have 2 external ethernet connections to the internet and provide load balancing and failover should one of the two public internet connections go down?

No. A routing daemon is neither necessary nor sufficient to provide Internet connection failover.