From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 12 7:35:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from samizdat.uucom.com (samizdat.uucom.com [198.202.217.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D4EF153BB for ; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 07:35:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cshenton@uucom.com) Received: (from cshenton@localhost) by samizdat.uucom.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA14852; Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:35:49 -0500 To: Greg Lehey Cc: Patrick Gardella , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Two routes to world? References: <19990312120009.U490@lemis.com> From: Chris Shenton Date: 12 Mar 1999 10:35:49 -0500 In-Reply-To: Greg Lehey's message of Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:00:09 +1030 Message-ID: <86yal2pvoq.fsf@samizdat.uucom.com> Lines: 20 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 20.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey writes: > It might be as simple as doing nothing. > > I'm having difficulty understanding what you're trying to do here. Do > you intend to keep the PPP link? It doesn't seem to make sense. If > you're only concerned about the transition, you shouldn't have a > problem. If both connections are to ISPs (in other words, to the > Internet), and *their* routing is correct, you can use either > interface as the default and the data will get there. It'll get there > faster via the ADSL line, of course, even if you're picking up mail > from the old ISP. I would think the easiest thing to do would be to use two MX records in the DNS, the more preferred pointing to your DSL-address and the less-preferred pointing to your POTS-address. You can give your mail machine multiple IP addresses, one on each network space, using IP aliases; see the example in the /etc/rc.conf file. MX records are very useful. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message