From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 22 16:38:57 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F24416A4CE for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from stewart.chicago.il.us (stewart.chicago.il.us [66.93.186.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1822E43D41 for ; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 16:38:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randall@stewart.chicago.il.us) Received: from stewart.chicago.il.us (stewart.chicago.il.us [127.0.0.1]) i0N0cpO6015484; Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:38:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from randall@stewart.chicago.il.us) Message-ID: <40106D1A.3000902@stewart.chicago.il.us> Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 18:38:50 -0600 From: "Randall R. Stewart (home)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031008 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Venturoli References: <200401191533.i0JFXUDE050449@soth.ventu> In-Reply-To: <200401191533.i0JFXUDE050449@soth.ventu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ISP lines X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 00:38:57 -0000 Andrea/all: An interesting question... the following link has some thoughts along these lines... and something for the BSD community to think upon... http://www.sctp.org/what_is_alt_route TCP could definetly use something like the above (with Itojun's Multi-path updates as well).. it would give more reliability to even a singly homed protocol such as TCP :-> R Andrea Venturoli wrote: >Ok, I asked already asked something similar to this in the past, but it's not the same thing... maybe it's a trivial >question... >If I had two lines to the Internet: how would I use both? >Could I just provide two default routes? How? >What algorithm would be used to choose among the two? >What if one failed? > > bye & Thanks > av. > > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > -- Randall R. Stewart 815-477-2127 (office) 815-342-5222 (cell phone)