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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 03:43:35 -0900 (AKST)
From:      Steve Howe <groggy@iname.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: ppp multi-routing
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.981107031913.742C-100000@abc.xyz.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811070137450.6949-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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> Yuck.  Getting multirouting involves patching the kernel and upgrading to
> -current, and even then the patches have to be updated for a current
> -current.  To boot, the return path will use only one of the links since
> the remote doesn't know about your mulitrouting configuration.

why can't it just have the effect of 2 PC's in 1?
ie, each link to the ISP has it's own IP address.
specified tty's would only be routed to the appropriate
ppp link to the ISP, and of course, any packet sent out a
ppp link would be routed by the ISP back down to the appropriate
ppp link with the appropriate IP address.

i claim no expertise whatsoever and apologize for any amount
of ignorance.  it just "seems" to me that whatever ppp can do
with one modem, with some minor changes it should be able to do
with 2 modems.

maybe something like have /etc/ppp0 and /etc/ppp1,
treating the 2 ppp's as individual and seperate entities,
each doing what they normally do, but without interfering
with each other.  the ppp.dialup (ppp.login) script could
be used to screen selected tty's, allowing only certain
tty's to link to certain ppp's (IP addresses).

i don't know if i have been clear.  i want to statically
define certain tty's to specific ppp links to an ISP.
i want 2 ISP accounts for one machine.  i think this
is where i haven't been read correctly.

tty[0-3] (192.168.0.1-4) <-> ppp0 (123.123.123.123) <-> ISP
tty[4-7] (192.168.0.5-8) <-> ppp1 (123.123.123.124) <-> ISP

> I was going to do this myself but the level of effort necessary and the
> limited payback wasn't worth it.


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