From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 4 18:28:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA20070 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:28:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from albion.loach.org (root@loach.org [199.233.190.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA20047 Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:28:43 -0800 (PST) Received: (from alexei@localhost) by albion.loach.org (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA05731; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:30:06 GMT From: Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov Message-Id: <199601041830.SAA05731@albion.loach.org> Subject: Re: two isp's, one net To: jmb@freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 18:30:01 +0000 () Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 4, 96 07:34:18 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > how do i set up a the routers and routes so that i can have two internet > connections supporting a single organization. when one isp fails (far > too often these days what with mci and alternet and sprint and.....) i want > the other line to carry all the traffic. our service is a full T-1 on > one line and metered T-1 on the other, therefore traffic load balancing > is NOT desireable. > > > The Internet > | | > | | > | | > ---------- ---------- > | router | | router | > ---------- ---------- > | | > | | > ---------------------------------------ethernet > | > | > the inside > > > are two default routes legal??? how would the kernel decide > between them?? can i do two default routes with different metrics, one 0 > and one, say 4??? > > jmb > > Jonathan M. Bresler FreeBSD Postmaster jmb@FreeBSD.ORG > play go. ride bike. hack FreeBSD.--ah the good life > i am moving to a new job. PLEASE USE: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG > > I am not believing this can be accomplished without peering with providers at Network Access Points like MAE East, or CIX; the reason being is the fact that backbone routing would need to be coordinated for your network through the Routing Arbitration Database, and for the same internet addresses to be routed through providers would not necessarily be possible solution due to the way in which addressing information is 'pointed' at one provider or the other. If you'd like more intelligent elaboration, you are welcome to contact me; I work for one of the nationwide providers ,and we have tackled this problem for customers before with little success. --Alexei