Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:52:51 -0400 From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) To: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <199607181652.MAA26263@etinc.com>
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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..
Fallback and multi-homing are 2 different animals....
Dennis
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