From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 6 15:55:48 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4703D16A4B3 for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:55:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.omnis.com (smtp.omnis.com [216.239.128.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9FD943F3F for ; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:55:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E08D72DDC; Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:54:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Leo Bicknell , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 15:55:39 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <20031004235400.GA20943@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20031005193343.F47183-100000@skywalker.rogness.net> <20031006134346.GA84944@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <20031006134346.GA84944@ussenterprise.ufp.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310061555.39768.wes@softweyr.com> Subject: Re: Changing the NAT IP on demand? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 22:55:48 -0000 On Monday 06 October 2003 06:43, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > Note, I think this configuration would be useful in a lot of other > applications as well. Consider someone who can get, say, a 128k > symmetric DSL line, and a 56k up 1M down satellite link. If using > this "trick" you could direct latency sensitive (ssh, telnet, ntp) > traffic over the DSL line, and send bulk data (http, ftp) over the > satellite link that could be quite useful. > > I think I'm going to have to set up a lab box now and dig into this > at a deeper level. Linux apparently has some software available to does at least part of this; others who have asked similar questions in the past have referred to such capabilities. A grep through the archives might be in order, but I can't recall enough to give you a guideline on what to search for. Maybe 'nat' and 'multiple' or something like that. Good luck! -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com