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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 1998 09:30:47 -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.3.96.980316092913.26071A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316012142.14802E-100000@asm.vaz.ru>

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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Vladimir A. Petrov wrote:

> > 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.
> 
> ..so as I can restart usage of the leased line!

You could use a flag file that the script drops when it's changed the
connection; when the file exists, and the hardwire connection is back,
kill the dialup process and change the routes.

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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