From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 13 2:24:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (ha1.rdc1.tn.home.com [24.2.7.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 647D037BAF5 for ; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:24:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from williamsl@home.com) Received: from RELIABLE ([24.4.115.31]) by mail.rdc1.tn.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000613092411.RESG25427.mail.rdc1.tn.home.com@RELIABLE>; Tue, 13 Jun 2000 02:24:11 -0700 Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 05:23:29 -0400 From: Ben Williams X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.39) Personal Organization: Williams Enterprises X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <8224.000613@home.com> To: "Raymundo M. Vega" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org, Jahanur R Subedar Subject: Re[2]: network setup In-reply-To: <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com> References: <3945831C.DF881DD9@home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message