Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:23:29 -0400 From: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> To: "Raymundo M. Vega" <RaymundoVega@home.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, Jahanur R Subedar <jahanur@jjsoft.com> Subject: Re[2]: network setup Message-ID: <8224.000613@home.com> In-Reply-To: <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com> References: <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com>
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I have a gateway (not the brand) computer with three (3) network
cards in it. One of these cards goes to the LAN. The OTHER TWO go to
DIFFERENT ISPs. My question is:
How do I use one ISP-link OR THE OTHER depending on which
has the "best" (for some definition of best ... shortest,
fastest, least packet loss...) route or capability to carry
the packets?
--Ben Williams
mailto:received@email dot com
Quoting Raymundo M. Vega Tuesday, June 13, 2000
> Ben Williams wrote:
>>
>> Hrm ... the problem here is my ISP gave me those (CCC.DDD.78.61 = gw,
>> CCC.DDD.78.62 = my_host, 255.255.255.252 netmask) numbers. That part
>> of the setup actually went pretty well when I got a supported NIC in
>> the box. While I found drivers for the dm NIC (the one C|Net's
>> selling) apparently either the card didn't want to co-exist with two
>> pn's or the driver was/is buggy. I actually have the .62 machine
>> talking to .61 and the rest of the world through it. My next problem
>> is the 64 IP block I got that starts on 144 and runs to 207 .. my
>> FreeBSD boxes want a /26 to end on 209, though if I specify '...
>> broadcast CCC.DDD.72.207' it will let me set up an apparently non-CIDR
>> block of IP's.
>> The current situation is basically "it was a bad/unsupported NIC,
>> my gw problem is fixed now." I am still interested in learning how
>> to route traffic in & out of each NIC based on something like OSPF or
>> BGP or the like. Any clues there?
> OSPF, RIP, BGP and others like them, are routing protocols,
> their purpose is to exchange among routers the routes to
> specific networks, it is of no use for a network that has
> one link to the Internet, for such topology, you only need
> to configure your clients with a default route pointing to
> the gate machine.
> raymundo
>>
>> Thanks to Jahanur R Subedar and Raymundo M. Vega for sending me
>> pointers and helping me get this fixed.
>>
>> --Ben Williams
>> mailto:received@email dot com
>>
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