From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 9 7:10:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2811C37B718 for ; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 07:10:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f29FcmP01509; Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:38:48 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 09:38:48 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Bruce Piper Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Routing question 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 On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Nick Rogness wrote: > On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Bruce Piper wrote: > > > > > My question is, is there any way to have a number of routers on my network, > > each of which has access to the internet, and ensure that people accessing > > the network externally via the fixed IP address and associated domain names > > get their requests served properly, but by default from those same servers > > they use the fast link except where absolutely necessary. Or am I completely > > confused? > > You need to get BGP running between you and your external > providers. If that can't happen, then you will have to do some > other trick. Or it may be another routing protocol...depending on how you are connected to your upstreams and what service they provide. Nick Rogness - Keep on routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message