You can use the nexland pro 800 turbo router.($400) They have a issue with cable modems. It tends to quite flakey. Symantec purchased them, personally a good used cisco 1721 router that is used on ebay with a good ios can do the same thing.
Raj -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of S Woodside Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 12:54 PM To: John Taylor Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Multi point to point John, you'll actually do a lot better if you multihome at the IP layer rather than at the lower layers. Multihoming is when you have a network that is connected to the internet via two or more gateways at the same time. Usually both load balancing, and reliability (automatic fail-over) are both reasons to multihome. MeshAP does not feature multihoming the last time I read about it. It's possible to have multiple gateways but each client node is only able to connect to one. But, I'm out of date because I got tired of the silliness in the meshAP community personally. 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 > > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > -- anti-spam: do not post this address publicly www.simonwoodside.com -- 99% Devil, 1% Angel -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
