On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:23:15 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> I wanted to try to gauge if there was much of a noticeable > >> difference with the two IP connections. And it would be handy to > >> just step through the links changine the GW intermittently. > > > > Yes, you can do that, but if you put a linux box between the > > gateways and the network you can use both at once. > > Thanks for the tips... > > I'm pretty sure I've done that before in a similar situation a couple > years ago. I don't recall exactly what I did now but I had only one > nic on the linux machine and ran two routers each with an Internet > connection. > > Seems like it was a matter of setting a static route to some internet > address through the second gateway, but I've forgotten if there was > more to it. > > The trick is getting stuff to use something besides the default route. > > Ping can be directed but not any applications like browsers that I > know of. >
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