From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 10 22:14:06 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0E2106566B for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from ethic.thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC4C8FC14 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by ethic.thought.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0AME3aq007061 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:14:03 -0800 From: Gary Kline To: FreeBSD Mailing List Message-ID: <20100110221400.GA90997@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 23 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.6 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, FH_DATE_PAST_20XX,J_CHICKENPOX_48 autolearn=no version=3.2.5 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.5 (2008-06-10) on ethic.thought.org Cc: Subject: can I leverage off our new comcast wireless internet. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:14:06 -0000 Folks, The problem is: how to keep this short and maintain some logic... Okay, I'll start with the several times that thought.org was down during my migration from an OLD to a new server. Got that done late last month. Wife+daughter were at me whenever my system was down; finally I said, fine, you both order Comcast; I'll make do with my telco, Qwest. Yesterday morning the cable installer used our telco line and now we have two Internet feeds. --I'll spare you the 28 hours thought.org was dead; I'll just say that going to one's thinking-place and thinking-thinking-thinking does good sometimes. My *switch* needed to be power-cycled. Now I am back; now on to other things.-- A few of you have made mention of my only having one link to the Internet. Now there are two available: the telephone company and the cable company. Can I make use of comcast to give me a secondary nameserver, somehow, someway, I don't care how? My ThinkPad has builtin wireless detection; that much showed up when I was using Windoze. I have Zero idea about my Dell server. The long and the short of it is: can I take advantage of having two 'Net connections, and if so, how? -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php