From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JkmBW-0005iw-Lg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A41F0E0829; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CABDE0829 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20915673C3 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.215 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.215 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.384, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vZJLfzJpzJe2 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6712867378 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JkmBD-0004lS-IH for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:32 +0000 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:31 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:31 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo router for multiple ISPs? Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:18:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0804121111n1b80c393q60b7c6bb486e5029@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.13) Gecko/20080408 SeaMonkey/1.1.9) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 98d74d4d-bf9f-473d-b264-6e081fff3d81 X-Archives-Hash: 00dcff5036421f468b74527612aaaeff Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I need to get a second ISP line into the house. I currently have a > cable modem but it goes down once in a while and my work requires > higher reliability so I was thinking of getting a DSL line to > supplement it. I'd like to investigate creating some sort of > firewall/router that could do the following: BGP4 is the way to be truely multi-homed, but that not likely to be an option. SCTP promises looks promising for the future, but it is implemented at the service/application level. I will be interested to see what others suggest for low-budget multi homing....or some subset thereof. I'm glad you posted this question, as my situation is slightly different (single static IP currently) on a cable modem, but my needs are similar to yours. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list