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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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