Erik Reuter wrote: > > I have two DSL lines which each have a different gateway and use a > different static IP address. I have both lines multiplexed onto the same > wire using a switch and cross-over cables, but I only connect to one DSL > line at a time on the ethernet card in my Debian box. Sometimes one of > the DSL lines will go down and I want to switch to the other one, so I > just swap in a different /etc/network/interfaces file: > > cp /etc/network/interfaces.dsl2 /etc/network/interfaces > ifdown eth0 > ifup eth0 > > It seems to me there must be a better way to utilize the two DSL > lines. But I'm not sure where to start looking. > > The ultimate would be to utilize the bandwidth of both lines > simultaneously to simulate one bigger bandwidth line, but I imagine this > will be difficult to set up.
that won't work the way some might expect. what you can probably do, is install a 2nd ethernet card in your system, plug it into the switch if both dsl providers are on seperate networks id reccomend using seperate switches for each(or if you have a good swithc seperate VLANs for each). plug it in, setup eth1, and another route with a lower metric. see the man page for route, while i haven't done something like this myself, it should work something along the lines of route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw YOUR_OTHER_DSL_GATEWAY metric 1 so if the main route fails the second one will be tried. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
