Hi John, Hi All (forgive my poor english)
My name is Rafael and I am lurking in the list for some time...
I work in a school in Brazil and in a very near future, we will have the
same situation as you.
Here in Brazil a dedicated (fixed ip) conection is too expensive, so
nowadays we are using an ADSL-dynamix-IP and NAT to serve our PCs...
As I said, we plan to use a slow (15k-56k) dedicated line to get
incoming conections (such as WWW, DNS, SMTP, maybe VPN, etc..)
I have the same doubt as you and some more to the Gurus of the list :)
Here in Brazil, the Telecom provides the ADSL connection using PPPoE,
but an ISP must validade it (federal laws...), and to do so they use PPPoA.
I�m not familiar to the process but I think that it is kind of transparent
to the modem. Turn on the modem, connect to the Telecom, Telecom to ISP,
validade connection, traffic through Telecom...
What I would like to ask is that not only could LEAF route the traffic
in the way John asked, but if it could use internal modens (one ADSL and one
X.25 to the slow line) to route to the internal Ethernet NIC, act as
Firewall and NAT, and why not, a proxy-cache...
Ahm... Another question, I�ve never seen these Flash-IDE drives... Are
they expensive? Could it be a solution to use as cache-drive?
I believe that one of the most important and attractive benefits of
using LEAF is that you can create a very small, noise-less, and trustable
computer, as you are not using mechanicals parts...
Sds,
Rafael Bratti!
----- Original Message -----
From: "John P" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: < >
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 7:10 AM
Subject: [Leaf-user] Split routes
> Hi all,
>
> I know there's been lots of discussion about 'load balancing' in the past,
> over two similar link types.
>
> I want to do something a little different but in the same vein. Our
company
> currently has a 2mb ADSL line, and for the most part it works great.
> However, we might be taking on a leased line in the future, as we have a
> mailserver/transaction server that we would like to ensure is always
online.
> (Always is a relative term, of course, compared to the DSL!). This will
> probably only be 64k though.
>
> Anyway, what I would like to do is ensure all WWW/outgoing mail/downloads
et
> al goes over the 2mb line (fast, no bandwidth charges!) but the
'important'
> traffic (incoming mail, incoming www requests) goes over the leased line.
> Also if the DSL line fails, everything needs to go over the leased line.
>
> Is it possible with LEAF? Where to start looking?
>
> Cheers
> John
>
> --
> John Portwin
>
>
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