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Date:      Sat, 14 Mar 1998 15:39:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Vladimir A. Petrov" <V.Petrov@VAZ.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using leased line with dialup line as a reserve
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314153905.23647O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980314133804.17991A-100000@asm.vaz.ru>

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On Sat, 14 Mar 1998, Vladimir A. Petrov wrote:

> Is it possible to use leased and dialup lines simultaneously?

Sure.  The trick is routing; when do you know when your permanent
connection goes down?  Once you can determine that, you can enact a script
to change routing, call ppp, etc...  

The common way to do this is to ping the other end periodically through a
cron task.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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