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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.EDU.AU!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: running two ppp connections at the same time Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:56:46 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 23 Message-ID: <01bc54d7$8ea7e180$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <mvhE97q3H.CC1@netcom.com> <5k4epa$h54@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39999 Brian Somers <brian@shift.utell.net> wrote in article <5k4epa$h54@ui-gate.utell.co.uk>... > In article <mvhE97q3H.CC1@netcom.com>, > mvh@netcom.com (Michael Harding) writes: > > Could you do this? That way I could put interactive traffic (telnet, > > etc) on one connection, and mail, web access, etc, on the other. > > No problem, all you need is two connections (and 2 ISP accounts if > you want to connect to the 'net). > > > What would happen to IP aliasing? > > Nothing. Works the same. > The biggest problem I can see is that one ppp interface will have a default route and the other won't, so all outbound traffic will go to the one with the default route on it.