> On Mon, 13 May 2002, Dan wrote: > > > Our Telstra ADSL connection has been down all day :( and > the boss is a bit > > peaved. > > > > Wondering what a good backup solution would be? > > > > I am in the process of setting up a Linux firewall and is > it possible to > > have a modem in a Linux Firewall that is dialed when the > ADSL fails? Would > > it be hard to set up? > > How much do you wanna spend? > > Put in an ISDN service, arrange with your ISP to have one at the other > end, buy a decent router and have the ISDN act as a dial on > demand backup.
Most of the problems of the last week seem to be more related to the inter-ISP connectivity than customer to ISP issues. In these cases, dialing up the same ISP isn't likely to help much. Cheers, Marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
