At 03:47 PM 9/19/01, Technical Support wrote: >Does anyone know whether it is possible to have separate gateways for >each eth0 and eth1? I have 2 routers and 2 DSL lines, my QUBE3 is >our mail server and I would like to allow switching from 1 gateway >to the other upon any downtime on DSL line 1. i.e. a backup >configuration. each of the IP addresses assigned to QUBE3 have been >NAT at router. I can get each to work, but don't know how to make >the DSL2 gateway come alive upon death of DSL 1 or any intermitten >downtime without manual intervention. And my experience in this >area is fairly new... This is called "multihoming", and will require involvement from your ISPs. If you don't have a "business-class" DSL account with them, they might not be willing to do this. See http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2001/05/11/multihoming.html for a neat overview of multihoming. This is not for the timid. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Behling, Web Application Developer - Monarch Information Systems, Inc. 43 Folly Field Road, Unit 4, Hilton Head Island, SC 29928-5434 E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone/Fax: 1-800-842-7894 Local or Outside the USA: 1-843-842-7894 Cell Phone (urgent issues): 843-816-7895 Cell Phone E-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (116 letter limit) Web site: http://www.MonarchIS.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ cobalt-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.cobalt.com/mailman/listinfo/cobalt-developers
