From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 7 04:43:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA01081 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 04:43:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abc.xyz.net (froggy.anchorage.ptialaska.net [208.151.119.238]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA01072 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 04:42:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by abc.xyz.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id DAA00789; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 03:43:35 -0900 (AKST) (envelope-from groggy@iname.com) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 03:43:35 -0900 (AKST) From: Steve Howe X-Sender: abc@abc.xyz.net To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: ppp multi-routing In-Reply-To: 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 > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message