> -----Original Message----- > From: Lucas Holt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, August 15, 2004 12:29 AM > To: 'Eric Crist'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Dual Homing Networks with DSL and Cable > > > You will have difficulty with this setup. Most large > providers require that you register your multihomed capacity > on a list. Otherwise traffic won't know to come in on a > particular interface or that it can go either way. I must > admit I'm going from memory here. I used to work at an ISP > about 5 years ago. At that time we went from a T3 with UUNET > to a multihomed setup with verio and uunet. It was rather > odd actually.. 3 t1s connected us to our modem banks at the > telco and then we had an ethernet connection to verio's pipe, > plus the T3 in our main office. Anyway, verio required us to > get on this list. They told us that most large ISPs use it > for routing. I suspect you will need static ips with the > cable provider to pull it off as well.
Actually, I was under the assumption that the multi-homed system would process outgoing traffic, and the incoming would just return on the appropriate IP. In this scenario, there's no need to register hosts. Thanks, Eric F Crist Best Access Systems 11300 Rupp Dr. Burnsville, MN 55337 Phone: 952.894.3830 Cell: 612.998.3588 Fax: 952-894-1990 _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
