Shane Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes on 5 September 2000 at 01:43:35
-0500
> Kinda off topic, but with the intelligent people in this group hopefully I
> can get an answer.
>
> Since qmail doesn't support fallback smtp hosts, does anyone know how to
> setup linux to go out a different way...let me explain.
>
> I have 2 dsl connections to the internet with seperate providers. As it
> stands know if the one with the default route dies I am sunk unless I am
> here to change. I would like to have 2 default routes and have it use one
> as the primary and the other as the secondary default route. I have tried
> many different things but cannot get it to work. I have tried putting both
> in as default and one having a slightly higher metric and pulled the plug on
> the main on, but nothing goes out until I plug it back in.
>
> Any ideas???
I'm not completely sure which part of the problem you're loooking for
help with. What you describe sounds like a routing problem more than
anything else. With 2 dsl connections, you need to be running a real
router somewhere between those connections and your systems that knows
how to see when one of the routes goes away.
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