cotfessi
03-08-2001, 03:44 PM
Here is my question... My DSL provider, Earthlink, allows up to 3 simultaneous connections under one account. This means that I don't have to have any sort of connection sharing or masquerading. Right now I have a winblows98 machine and and linux debian machine that connect simultaneously. No problem with that... The thing is that every once and a while - maybe once a week - one of the connections is dropped.
I just put together a third computer last weekend out of spare parts from work: a pentium 233 w 32mb RAM and 3 NICs
Right now I uses pppd to connect to my DSL provider. Will pppd allow to multiple outgoing connections to the web? My thinking is that if I have eth0 and eth1 connected to the web and have eth2 connected to my internal network, then I should be able to use one connection A and switch over to connection B when A goes down... that way there will be very little if any time when I'm actually "down".
Does this sound like something completely ridiculous or is it possible, or better yet has anyone ever tried this?
Thanks
-cotfessi
I just put together a third computer last weekend out of spare parts from work: a pentium 233 w 32mb RAM and 3 NICs
Right now I uses pppd to connect to my DSL provider. Will pppd allow to multiple outgoing connections to the web? My thinking is that if I have eth0 and eth1 connected to the web and have eth2 connected to my internal network, then I should be able to use one connection A and switch over to connection B when A goes down... that way there will be very little if any time when I'm actually "down".
Does this sound like something completely ridiculous or is it possible, or better yet has anyone ever tried this?
Thanks
-cotfessi