On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, John Summerfield wrote:
>> run stuff like routed/gated. You can't just plop 3 NIC's in a
>> machine, turn it on, and use all three interfaces from wherever.
>> You need routing protocols running. And a nameserver is a good
>> idea too. ;o)
>
>Why, Mike, do I need to run routed or gated> I used to run routed on OS/2, but
>I quite when a person from IBM told me (and quite a few others) how to do
>their routing. I've never run gated at all.
>
>There's quite a selection of his writings in my web pages.
>
>You need a routing daemon if you have a big complicated network. Otherwise you
>set up a route or two as necessary, and a default route for everything else.
Sure thing. My visualization of what was being attempted is
likely different from what is really happening. An ASCII art
diagram would be in order I think to avoid confusion.
I envisioned:
YOUR_LAN--------YOURFIREWALL--------YOURISP
|
+---------ANOTHERISP
In this case, you could do things different ways, however I would
think most dual homed systems would try to split bandwidth
between the two, or would try to minimize hopping, etc.. which
requires routing protocols.. Not that you HAVE to, but it makes
sense in such a scenario. Without knowing the exact use of each
interface, it is impossible to guess it though.
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