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 1JlBKK-0004U2-0L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B5213E03EF; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A05E03EF for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F5266C28 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:33 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.715 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.715 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.884, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] 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 nzUFhccprLPC for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:22 +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 355D366E4B for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JlBK0-00020I-B1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:16 +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 ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:16 +0000 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:16 +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: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:09:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <5bdc1c8b0804121111n1b80c393q60b7c6bb486e5029@mail.gmail.com> <5bdc1c8b0804121709r6d8c192ew640b993ece30e00d@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: d9ec7dbf-efcc-405b-bc75-9edf987ae0be X-Archives-Hash: 9578aa39849efa7aea92c6949e6876bb Mark Knecht gmail.com> writes: > I wonder if BGP4 would be supported inside of an ISP's network? NO, you need your won ASN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) > I don't understand SCTP yet but it seems spec oriented instead of > being a piece of software. It's a new RFC related more to local networks with multipath needs. Still some applications may benefit which seem to be multi-homed. > Well, I have a single IP right now but I did order the DSL line today. > If nothing else it will sit here unused and only get plugged in when > the cable modem line is down. That's pretty brute force > > I found a couple of threads about using a FreeBSD firewall called ipfw > but the little bit of checking I did didn't show it in portage. Ucarp is there (in portage) but it is used for (auto)failover of routers built from pc hardware. > I'm curious as to whether ipchains or something like that could do > most of this. Even if it was just hooked up to both ISPs and I had to > flip a software switch to go between them at least I wouldn't have to > run around much to get the change enabled. I'm very sure with ipchains > I could send the game traffic out on the DSL line and reserve cable > modem for my work most of the time. Certainly the rules of IPtables will have to be modified to implement any of the various schemes to "automagically" utilize multiple Internet connections. That said, I found this link you may want to look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Dual_internet_connections James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list