From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 22: 0:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.169.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1F4E37B423 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 22:00:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedm.placo.com (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [206.29.168.154]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id f4250ck92872; Tue, 1 May 2001 22:00:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Nick Rogness" Cc: "Ken Bolingbroke" , Subject: RE: Redundant Internet connections Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:00:38 -0700 Message-ID: <002001c0d2c4$d4239aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >-----Original Message----- >From: Nick Rogness [mailto:nick@rogness.net] > >> Supposing that both interfaces into the FreeBSD router are Ethernet? >> (say, 2 DSL connections) A DSL modem will NOT shut down it's Ethernet >> interface if the DSL circuit to it goes down. What then? > > Your SOL! This is only works real well when your ethernet > interface goes down. > Yes, this is particularly annoying on DSL because on bridged DSL there's nothing to ping. (IP #'s are not assigned to anything) The redundancy solution I posted the URL pointer to earlier gets around this with a icky script that probes the ARP table. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message