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Title: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: william_syd on December 16, 2008, 05:37:01 AM: Hi,

Has anyone played with or got working with SME either Quagga (http://www.quagga.net/) or the older Zebra (http://www.zebra.org/) Routing Software Suites?
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: CharlieBrady on December 16, 2008, 08:08:11 AM: Quote from: william_syd on December 16, 2008, 05:37:01 AM
Has anyone played with or got working with SME either Quagga (http://www.quagga.net/) or the older Zebra (http://www.zebra.org/) 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?
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: jmbac on December 18, 2008, 06:30:17 PM: 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
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: william_syd on June 18, 2009, 09:19:01 AM: Quote from: CharlieBrady on December 16, 2008, 08:08:11 AM
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.
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: william_syd on June 18, 2009, 09:20:24 AM: Quote from: jmbac on December 18, 2008, 06:30:17 PM
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
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: daniel on June 19, 2009, 06:39:27 AM: 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?
Title: Re: SME Server and Routing Software Suites
Post by: CharlieBrady on June 19, 2009, 04:00:19 PM: Quote from: danielr on June 19, 2009, 06:39:27 AM
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.