Recommended Reading

The route manual page
The netstat manual page
The arp manual page
The ifconfig manual page
Alexej Kuznetsov's TEQL Linux source file sch_teql.c (included in the Linux sources)
RFC 2991, "Multipath Issues in Unicast and Multicast Next-Hop Selection"
RFC 2992, "Analysis of an Equal-Cost Multi-Path Algorithm"
PPP Multilink /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/ppp_generic.txt
RFC 1990, "PPP Multilink Protocol (MP)"
RFC 2125, "PPP Bandwidth Allocation Protocol?Supports unlimited Number of ML-PPP Bundles"

Command Syntax Conventions

Chapter 1. Operating System Issues and Features-The Big Picture

Chapter 2. User-Space Routing Software

Chapter 3. Kernel Requirements for a Full-Featured Lab

Chapter 4. Gateway WAN/Metro Interfaces

Chapter 5. Ethernet and VLANs

Chapter 6. The Analyzer Toolbox, DHCP, and CDP

Chapter 7. The UNIX Routing and ARP Tables

Chapter 8. Static Routing Concepts

Administrative Distance and Metric

Classful Routing, VLSM, and CIDR

Default Gateways, Default Routes, and Route(s) of Last Resort

Route Caches, Routing Tables, Forwarding Tables, and the ISO Context

The Near and Far End of a Link

The route Command-Adding and Removing Routes

Blackholes and Reject/Prohibit Routes

Floating Static Routes

Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) Routing

Lab 8-1: Interface Metrics, Floating Static Routes, and Multiple Equal-Cost Routes (ECMP)

Linux TEQL (True Link Equalizer)

Adding Static Routes via Routing Daemons

Recommended Reading

Chapter 10. ISP Connectivity with BGPv4-An Exterior Gateway Path-Vector Routing Protocol for Interdomain Routing

Chapter 13. Policy Routing, Bandwidth Management, and QoS

Chapter 14. Multicast Architectures

Chapter 15. Network Address Translation

Appendix A. UNIX Kernel Configuration Files

Appendix B. The FreeBSD Netgraph Facility