Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-29 Thread Dave Oxley
Daniel Iliev wrote: On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. My switch is a SGE2000P which is also a layer 3 router. I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-28 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:16:37 +1000 Dave Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So what I want to do is setup my switch as a router. No can do. > I'm a bit of a newbie on advanced networking but I think that a > router is basically just a switch with a VLAN for the local network > and VLAN for the

[gentoo-user] Replacing my router

2008-06-27 Thread Dave Oxley
I have 2 Internet connections, 1 fast ADSL and 1 slow wireless as a backup. My router doesn't do automatic failover or even have support for multiple WAN connections so I thought I'd set up PPP connections on my Gentoo server that do PPPoE to the 2 modems which I connected directly to my switch