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Date:      Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        noah <noah@mweb.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: dial on demand routing with iijppp
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980416125816.7029W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199804161348.PAA01476@mweb.co.za>

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On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, noah wrote:

> The situation is thus :
> I require several (at least three) wide area routers that use user ppp
> for connectivity. each router is freebsd 2.2.1 with a SINGLE modem
> and other wan connections. I need to be able to initiate connections in
> both directions ... 

Hm, okay, can you give us some ASCII art and numbers to play with?

> It seems fairly simple to do this in one direction ( eg an isp connection)
> but appears much harder on a peer to peer basis. The problem seems to
> lie with the routing.  You must use different routes for the same nets
> depending on which router initiates the connection.
> This seems to call for a routing daemon that can handle redundant
> routes but I cant get any to work.  
> Does anyone have any ideas as how to get this going? 

Treat the modem connection as if it was a ethernet link.  If you require
more complexity than that, you may want to look into running routed and
having it manage the routes automatically.

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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