Great info, I just got cable modem hooked to Linux last night and tonights
project was to do just this.
Thanks...
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Towers, Tim (London) wrote:
> If I had a cablemodem for bulk TCP transfers and
> ppp for my domain connection I would configure...
>
> ip localnet netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
> ip provider-net netmask 255.255.0.0 gw ppp-address
> ip default netmask 0.0.0.0 gw cablemodem-address.
>
> That way your ppp network provider gets sent the
> packets that are on their network but everything
> else goes via cable. Packets to you can arrive via
> either address. Your traffic will naturally
> balance out with email coming in via ppp and
> your web browsing mainly going through your
> cablemodem - (you must make sure you don't
> use your provider's proxy server).
>
> Tim
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