Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:34:25 -0800 From: Forrest <praxis@techpraxis.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections and switching dynamically between them Message-ID: <B6DACC51.2651%praxis@techpraxis.com> In-Reply-To: <20010319033106.4542.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>
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On 3/18/01 7:31 PM, "Yusuf Goolamabbas" <yusufg@outblaze.com> is said to have spake: > Hi, A friend of mine asked me if the following was possible > > A FreeBSD box has multiple analog modems [56K], each of these modems > is dialed-up to a different ISP. The BSD box also acts as a gateway to > a LAN of Windoze boxen. > > For redundancy purposes, my friend would like the gateway to switch to > a different ISP automatically should anyone analog link break down > [poor man's multi-homing/BGP ?] > > Is this possible, any recipes or war stories from people who have done > this. If there is a hardware appliance which one buys and can do this > stuff. Pointers to that would also be appreciated > > Regards, Yusuf Yusuf, I am interested in the same general capability -- except in my case, I want to make the FreeBSD box serve as a gateway using a DSL connection (which comes into another router) and a multilink PPP connection to the same ISP or two different ISPs. There is a real dearth of information on this kind of setup, if anyone would help us put together some information chunks on this I am sure Yusuf and I would be grateful -- maybe a "redundancy multilink bandwidth aggregator how-to for FreeBSD" would be in the offing? I have a website where such things could be posted with a minimum of fuss. Also, as a refugee from the craziness of the Linux world, I am very interested in helping with assembling a "How-to" like directory for FreeBSD. Any bites? Forrest To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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