randomly picking what exit you use is pretty easy, bearing in mind the he issue of having a different visible ip address for each exit. there are nat boxen that you can buy now that will do this.
actual dual homing, is a different sort of problem and probably not feasible in the context of residential ip service. joelja On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nick Arnett wrote: > A neighbor and I want to back up each others' home office DSL lines via > wireless, mainly for reliability, but also perhaps to provide a bit of extra > bandwidth at peaks. We're both fairly adept with sysadmin on multiple > platforms. His network is mostly Macs, ours is combination of Linux and > Windows. He's got an Airport and we have a Linksys WAP54G and an older > Addtron AP of some sort available. The houses are only about a block apart > with clear line of sight, so the link itself shouldn't be difficult. > > I'm not having much luck searching for pointers on the software side of this > kind of installation. We'll still want to use our APs as usual, but also > have them handle the bridge, if that's practical. We're using NAT with only > one machine in the DMZ, and we'd like to keep our internal networks secure > from each other. I'm not sure if it makes sense to worry about security on > the bridge, since any traffic on it will be destined for the net at large. > I don't think we'll worry about limiting each other's bandwidth usage, but > that might become an issue, of course. > > Also, does anybody have any experience with this sort of thing? I'm > wondering if we're likely to gain much reliability, since we're both > dependent on the same PacBell CO. I don't know how many outages are the ISP > v. the telco. FWIW, our ISPs are Sonic.net and Speakeasy. > > Thanks in advance for any info. > > -- > Nick Arnett > Phone/fax: (408) 904-7198 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
