On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The issue, I think, is that the poster DOESN'T have an autonomous
> or portable address. So in this latter arrangement, while he can
> play all sorts of router tricks about which provider a given outbound
> packet gets sent to ("shouldn't" matter, since both providers peer
> with the rest of the Internet), *inbound* traffic only ever comes
> over one link, and when that's down, he's dead.
>
A solution I use at home (dsl + modem backup, two different providers) is
this.
##########
|--dsl-----##########
me-| #internet#----work
|--dialup--##########
##########
I establish a tunnel to work over the dsl. If the dsl goes down, the
tunnel reconnects via the dialup. I keep the same ip address(es) for
incoming traffic and my home mail server doesn't go down, no fancy routing
involved.
--
Edward Fahner
Systems Administrator, Planet Communications Network
(540)442-6677 x222 [aka. Akatosh .CU.Au, [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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