Re: Dual Homing?

2003-01-21 Thread Kent Borg
I am still working on my (temporary) pseudo-multihoming. I want to use both my new and old DSL connections at the same time until I get all my DNS stuff pointing to the new one, am sure the new one works, etc. And, I want to use this opportunity to understand this bit of networking. (Always

Re: Dual Homing?

2003-01-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two different internet connections at once. The main problem is that, unless you're advertising via BGP, you can't load-balance inbound on WAN links. While you can potentially (I say

Re: Dual Homing?

2003-01-20 Thread nate
Kent Borg said: It appears that though the kernel naturally wants to send response packets back from whence they came, there had better be a route thataway before it can. the kernel will send the response packets out the default gateway. on a typical machine, there is only 1 default gateway,

Re: Dual Homing?

2003-01-20 Thread Kent Borg
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:01:20PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Kent Borg wrote: I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two different internet connections at once. The main problem is that, unless you're advertising via BGP, you can't

Dual Homing?

2003-01-18 Thread Kent Borg
I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two different internet connections at once. I am in the midst of (possibly) changing over to a different DSL provider, and as it happens they are on different copper pairs, so I can have both at once. Because I host my own e-mail I

Re: Dual Homing?

2003-01-18 Thread Kent Borg
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 04:10:50PM -0500, Kent Borg wrote: I am wondering what it takes to have a Red Hat (7.0) machine on two different internet connections at once. And here I am responding to my own post with a partial answer. It appears that though the kernel naturally wants to send