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From: brian@shift.utell.net (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: running two ppp connections at the same time
Date: 30 Apr 1997 09:45:41 GMT
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <01bc54d7$8ea7e180$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com>,
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> writes:
>
>
> Brian Somers <brian@shift.utell.net> wrote in article
> <5k4epa$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.
Perhaps the original poster had something like "multilink PPP"
in mind - where a single ppp daemon multiplexes data over
several physical lines ?
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !