Chuck Kollars wrote: > > Here's our potential problem: our static IP was of > course delegated by our regular ISP, and we suspect it > _may_ be specific to that ISP only. If that's the case > and we use the static IP address from our regular ISP > with our backup drop, we _may_ be be ticking off the > ISPs, and it _may_ not even work.
Of course it won't work. Outbound, the default gateway will suddenly not exist. Inbound, the rest of the internet is not going to suddenly start routing that IP address through a totally different ISP. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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