From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 5 09:40:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA19067 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 09:40:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from intele.net (quervo.intele.net [204.118.149.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA19033 for ; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 09:40:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (wes@localhost) by intele.net (8.6.12/8.6.5) id KAA05159 for questions@freefall.freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:55:53 -0700 From: Barnacle Wes Message-Id: <199601051755.KAA05159@intele.net> Subject: Re: questions-digest V1 #378 To: questions@freefall.freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Jan 1996 10:55:53 -0700 (MST) In-Reply-To: <199601050500.VAA04658@freefall.freebsd.org> from "owner-questions-digest@freefall.freebsd.org" at Jan 4, 96 09:00:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jonathan M. Bresler asked: % 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. [...] Alexei Nikolaevich Romanov answered, in part: > I am not believing this can be accomplished without peering with providers > at Network Access Points like MAE East, or CIX; [...] I believe you might be able to solve this problem at your local network if you use ONE ROUTER for both interfaces. If the router supports a 'fail-over' route, you might be able to get it to select the second ISP as long as the first one is not responding. This might be an opportunity for some innovative coding in FreeBSD also; write a daemon process that can monitor two external connections and provide the same facility by diddling with the default route. It should be pretty simple to accomplish; the implementation is left as an exercise for the reader. (I love saying that! ;^) -- Wes Peters | Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late Softweyr | The cannons don't thunder, there's nothing to plunder Consulting | I'm an over forty victim of fate... wes@intele.net | Jimmy Buffet