From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 18 09:47:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA01866 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:47:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from etinc.com ([204.141.95.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01860 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:47:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dialup-usr11.etinc.com (dialup-usr11.etinc.com [204.141.95.132]) by etinc.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA26263; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:52:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 12:52:51 -0400 Message-Id: <199607181652.MAA26263@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Version 2.0.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Joe Greco From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ? Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Emerging Technologies, Inc. http://www.etinc.com Synchronous Communications Cards and Routers For Discriminating Tastes. 56k to T1 and beyond. Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, and X.25 for BSD/OS, FreeBSD and LINUX