From owner-freebsd-isp Wed May 30 10: 4:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from beastie.saturn-tech.com (beastie.saturn-tech.com [207.229.19.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97DBB37B43C for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 10:04:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) Received: from localhost (drussell@localhost) by beastie.saturn-tech.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f4UH59F74585; Wed, 30 May 2001 11:05:14 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from drussell@saturn-tech.com) X-Authentication-Warning: beastie.saturn-tech.com: drussell owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 11:05:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Doug Russell To: pg@eth1.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-link 2 dedicated dialups via router In-Reply-To: <1fd161b08b.1b08b1fd16@mysun.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This question probably should have been posted to the freebsd-questions. This isn't really an ISP question, and it would be seen by more people. On Wed, 30 May 2001, Peter Gatsoulis wrote: > I have 2 locations ... > location1 has frac T1 via router to the internet. ... > location2 has FBSD4.3 box which needs to be configured to wait for > location1's calls on both its incoming modem lines > > These calls s/ be multilinked to increase bandwidth > The calls should dial again continously 24x7 if either connection drops > Only location1 will dial INTO location2 Sounds like a straightforward job for ppp. Take a good read through the manpage (by typing man ppp), as well as the handbook, which has a few appropriate sections on setting up PPP. There are also the various example configuration files located in: /usr/share/examples/ppp > Preferably no passwds just a "quik" login to connect together > also location2 should HANGUP quickly if wrong number ... only location1 > box will ever dial these dedicated phone numbers into location2 Always use at least passwords. :) Just set the same: set authname MyUserName set authkey MyPassword on both ends of the connection. This will make it at least slightly more difficult for someone to break in through that connection. > Routing; the few Windoze98 desktops @location2 will need to be routed > to the internet via location2's LAN, via location2 FBSD box to > location1 FBSD box to location1's router and finally out the router > which is designated at location1 as the default gateway. Sounds straightforward. Again, have a good read through the output of 'man ppp' and the example config files, then give it a try. If you have any problems with specifics, please don't hesitate to fire off a question to FreeBSD-questions, and we'll be glad to help! Later...... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message