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Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ?
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> >>  is it possible to run multihomed with ppp?
> >
> >I'm not sure {if,why} you would want to, but yes, it is.  Routing is
> >something that happens above the actual connection layer.
> 
> and so it PPP. I assume that the writer was talking about dial-up,
> but of-course ppp runs on a T1 also. It would talk a longgggg time
> to download all the routes on a modem though.....

That was the {if,why} part.  :-)  However, running something like ISDN,
maybe it is not unreasonable...

I'm looking into the practicality of ISDN as an "emergency fallback" mainly
because it's relatively CHEAP..

... JG