On Tuesday 19 March 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Tony wrote: > > I have eventually got my green meanie working on SuSE 7.3 v.2.4.18 :-) > > But my original Ext Modem has stopped working, I think this is because it > > get's assigned as ppp1. > > > > Are there any reported problems with running both interfaces, one with > > the Speedtouch (ppp0) and the other Ext Modem (ppp1) ? > > > > Tony > > There shouldn't be but you (probably) don't want to be running both at > once. Your routing is likely to get extremely hairy, especially if you > allow two default routes. > > Without some careful fiddling with ip rule add etc you are likely to > see traffic going out on the "wrong" interface. (Just because you send > a packet out with a source IP of ppp0 doesn't mean that it will go out > over ppp0 if a route to the destination exists on another interface as > well.) > > Note also that ppp0, ppp1 etc aren't guaranteed. I think the kernel > picks the next available interface. > > Tim.
I'm using Firewall2 (iptables) which I'm playing with now, trying to get the rules working with both IF's, I think if I also need to add some stuff to the ip-up script so $INTERFACE has two instances, not easy ! You are correct, the ppp(#) get's assigned by the kernel, where ? I don't know, if I find out I'll post it. thx for the pointers. Tony. Liste de diffusion modem ALCATEL SpeedTouch USB Pour se d�sinscrire : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe
