From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 16 13:00:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA28556 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 13:00:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA28505 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 20:00:27 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA07146; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:59:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: noah cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dial on demand routing with iijppp In-Reply-To: <199804161348.PAA01476@mweb.co.za> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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