Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:09:39 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: dan@langille.org Subject: cable to DSL - modify gw or create new? Message-ID: <3C39D653.4567.42874AB1@localhost>
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I'm about to swap from cable to DSL. I won't be dropping cable until I have DSL working reliably. I have a choice. I can either modify my existing firewall, or create a new one. If I create a new gateway, the process is pretty straight forward. I just replicate what is on my existing firewall. To migrate to DSL, just change the default route on each of my internal boxes. If I modify my existing gateway, I'll pop in a third NIC and create some new ipf groups and rules. As I migrate from cable to DSL I'll just modify my routing table to move more and more outgoing traffic over to DSL. Eventually no traffic will be going out over cable. That's when I can disconnect the cable, remove the references to that NIC from my ipf rules, and go on. Which choice would you make and why? -- Dan Langille The FreeBSD Diary - http://freebsddiary.org/ - practical examples To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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