Perfect, thanks, this gives me a starting place. This should keep me busy for a month :) Cheers. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kendall Lister" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Burden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2000 6:59 PM Subject: Re: Dual modem setup > On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Tim Burden wrote: > > > I also have an old 386, and here's what I want to do. I want to load > > Linux onto it and hook it up to the little network, and give it both > > the modems to hook up to my ISP with. I want to use the 386 as a > > firewall, in other words, but I want it to be able to use BOTH modems > > if the load warrants this sufficiently. I want the second modem to > > kick in automatically when needed and hang up by itself when not > > needed. > > You shouldn't have any problems setting up two simultaneous connections to > your ISP (just do the same as you would for a single ISP connection, twice > - see the ISP-HOOKUP HOWTO among other guides), but you might have trouble > implementing the load monitoring that you want. Use a recent kernel (if > your 386 has enough resources) to get multiple default route capability. I > would suggest that you start with using scripts run from cron to monitor > the traffic through the first connection and bring up the second when > necessary, inserting and deleting routes on the fly - it should work well > enough, if you use weighting delays (no pun intended) to compensate for > the time it takes to to set up the second connection. > > -- > Kendall Lister, Systems Operator for Charon I.S. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Charon Information Services - Friendly, Cheap Melbourne ISP: 9589 7781 > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
