From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 18 20:34:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from glatton.cnchost.com (glatton.cnchost.com [207.155.248.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7550C37B718 for ; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:34:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from praxis@techpraxis.com) Received: from [64.221.116.130] (w130.z064221116.sea-wa.dsl.cnc.net [64.221.116.130]) by glatton.cnchost.com id XAA06158; Sun, 18 Mar 2001 23:34:23 -0500 (EST) [ConcentricHost SMTP Relay 1.10] User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:34:25 -0800 Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections and switching dynamically between them From: Forrest To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20010319033106.4542.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 3/18/01 7:31 PM, "Yusuf Goolamabbas" 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