Cool Chris, I hadn't looked at this. I had been thinking GateD.
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000, Chris Watt wrote:
> At 17:09 31/07/00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I will soon have both a xDSL and a cable modem connection to the net.
> >
> >I want to set up a linux router use both connections. I am thinking
> >OSPF.. I have never done this, but I want to try. My question, has
anyone
> >here done this? Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> Unless your xDSL and cable are of radically different speeds you probably
> just want to do equal cost multipath (non deterministic) routing. You get
> this by compiling your own kernel and (in addition to all other
> appropriate values to make your system work) you would say yes to
> CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER and CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH. The help text for
> these two options plus the man page for the route command should tell you
> everything else you want to know (this assumes kernel 2.2.16, it may be
> slightly different in other versions). Basically you just need to create
> two "default" routes, one for each device, and they'll both be used at
> once. Note: This is MUCH easier to do if you connect your xDSL and Cable to
> two different NICs (and then use a third for a firewalled/masq'd LAN). It
> can be done on a single NIC using virtual interfaces, but it's not pretty
> or efficient (except in terms of saving an IRQ).
>
> For more info on compiling your own kernel: install the kernel-headers and
> kernel-source RPM's. Read the Kernel-HOWTO. In general "make clean
> menuconfig dep bzImage modules modules_install" works.
> --
>
> Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
>
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