Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:50:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <199607181650.LAA07542@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199607181652.MAA26263@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jul 18, 96 12:52:51 pm
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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....
Not particularly. They are different implementations of the same problem -
how to maintain more than one link to the Internet.
... JG
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