On the other hand, I am in contact with the IETF working group on multihoming in IPv6 and I take every opportunity to remind them of the potential uses in a meshed system. Also there has been some discussion on this list and off-list about a meshed system that would be capable of multihoming. It might be possible to retrofit MeshAP to do multihoming even? I don't know. There is also the "pebble" mesh project perhaps they can help with that.
As you say, it's "easy" to do multihoming if you don't mind tunnelling all your traffic to a single router but that eats up the bandwidth ... the true solution would be to design a mesh that can handle multihoming built-in. I *think* that there are projects to do just that, in the realm of "mobile ad-hoc" networking (check out the iETF MANET group) but I'm not clear on whether than applies to the "fixed" ad-hoc mesh networking case or not.
simon
On Tuesday, August 19, 2003, at 10:07 AM, John Taylor wrote:
I am running a small community wisp in the wilds of the uk Network topology is 3 villages each networked within themselves via the locust world MeshAP, each village then being connected via a wireless 'provider' node to a wireless backbone The wireless backbone is then extended via a wireless backhaul and terminates in a local town I use `bandwidth arbitrator` to manage bandwidth demand at the internet gateway However one of the villages recently had the local exchange ADSL enabled and I plan to connect one of the nodes directly to the internet My question is has anybody come across any software that will A. Load balance between the two internet gateways and/or B. Provide fail-over to the other internet connection I assume multi point to point is the solution to (A) My router at the present gateway provides (B), but that means traffic has to travel up the backhaul to the router, then back down it to the connected village -not very efficient! Any help gratefully received John Taylor www.svw.org.uk
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