On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 1:18 PM, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > I need to get a second ISP line into the house. I currently have a > > cable modem but it goes down once in a while and my work requires > > higher reliability so I was thinking of getting a DSL line to > > supplement it. I'd like to investigate creating some sort of > > firewall/router that could do the following: > > BGP4 is the way to be truely multi-homed, but that not likely > to be an option. SCTP promises looks promising for the future, > but it is implemented at the service/application level.
Thanks for the response. I wonder if BGP4 would be supported inside of an ISP's network? It seems to be more of a spec than a product. I'm not really reading in any depth. Just sort of scanning around I don't understand SCTP yet but it seems spec oriented instead of being a piece of software. > > > I will be interested to see what others suggest for > low-budget multi homing....or some subset thereof. > > I'm glad you posted this question, as my situation is slightly > different (single static IP currently) on a cable modem, but > my needs are similar to yours. Well, I have a single IP right now but I did order the DSL line today. If nothing else it will sit here unused and only get plugged in when the cable modem line is down. That's pretty brute force I found a couple of threads about using a FreeBSD firewall called ipfw but the little bit of checking I did didn't show it in portage. I'm curious as to whether ipchains or something like that could do most of this. Even if it was just hooked up to both ISPs and I had to flip a software switch to go between them at least I wouldn't have to run around much to get the change enabled. I'm very sure with ipchains I could send the game traffic out on the DSL line and reserve cable modem for my work most of the time. Just thinking... Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
