Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:07:04 -0800 From: Edwin Culp <eculp@EnContacto.Net> To: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, Karim Halai <pyr@dqc.org> Subject: Re: Multiple PPP connections and switching dynamically between them Message-ID: <984982024.3ab5a208925e9@Mail.InternetSalon.Org> In-Reply-To: <20010319033106.4542.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com> References: <20010319033106.4542.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>
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A very simple example would be to use the output of ifconfig ppp[0-3] or
tun{0-3] and seperate the assigned gateway from the assigned ip and write a
simple script using the results of fping or ping -c1 and sleeping the time
interval that you want.
You might want to set squid (/usr/ports/www/squid23 or 24 up as a proxy to take
advantage of the unused connections and bandwidth to fetch web pages, ftp, etc
for your internal network.
Provecho,
ed
Quoting Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@outblaze.com>:
> Hi, A friend of mine asked me if the following was possible
>
> A FreeBSD box has multiple analog modems [56K], each of these modems
> is dialed-up to a different ISP. The BSD box also acts as a gateway to
> a LAN of Windoze boxen.
>
> For redundancy purposes, my friend would like the gateway to switch to
> a different ISP automatically should anyone analog link break down
> [poor man's multi-homing/BGP ?]
>
> Is this possible, any recipes or war stories from people who have done
> this. If there is a hardware appliance which one buys and can do this
> stuff. Pointers to that would also be appreciated
>
> Regards, Yusuf
>
> --
> Yusuf Goolamabbas
> yusufg@outblaze.com
>
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