On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Michael Jinks wrote:
> I may be wrong here, but I think you can do this just by giving all of
> your machines two gateways, one which points to the DSL IP address, and
> one which points to the cable modem. The IP stack should be able to
> figure out which one provides the shortest route to the target.
>
> Or, if you have piles of old 486's laying around, you could dedicate a
> box to being your internal backbone. Give it gateways onto your DSL and
> cable interfaces, and make it a router for the rest of your network. It
> should then handle opening the shortest path to the target for each
> transaction.
>
> I think. I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who knows better, or
> who can provide better details...
>
BGP, "Border Gateway Protocol" is what you're looking for.
John
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