Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:00:38 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Nick Rogness" <nick@rogness.net> Cc: "Ken Bolingbroke" <hacker@bolingbroke.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Redundant Internet connections Message-ID: <002001c0d2c4$d4239aa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105011351380.88045-100000@cody.jharris.com>
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>-----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
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