From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jul 18 09:52:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA02182 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:52:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.109.160]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA02176 for ; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 09:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id LAA07542; Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:50:57 -0500 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199607181650.LAA07542@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: AS/BGP on FreeBSD ? To: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis) Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 11:50:57 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199607181652.MAA26263@etinc.com> from "Dennis" at Jul 18, 96 12:52:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text 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.... Not particularly. They are different implementations of the same problem - how to maintain more than one link to the Internet. ... JG