more than 1 ISP

more than 1 ISP

[Payal Rathod]

Hi,
My ISP gives me a speed of 48kbps maximum (actually 64kbps is promised
but it never goes about 48). For a month or 2 we are taking one more connection
of 48kbps from another ISP (actually a nearby company) for uploading data to
our client's computer.
Can I terminate it in my Linux box (which is the gateway) and for few of my windows
clients make that IP my default gateway or is lartc needed here?
I don't mind if even FTP protocol passes through the other link and the first
one is used for browsing and mails.
I need a simple solution to this and lartc was becoming too complex.

Any ideas anyone?
With warm regards,
-Payal

Re: more than 1 ISP

[Raphael Jacquot]

Payal Rathod wrote:
> Hi,
> My ISP gives me a speed of 48kbps maximum (actually 64kbps is promised
> but it never goes about 48). For a month or 2 we are taking one more connection
> of 48kbps from another ISP (actually a nearby company) for uploading data to
> our client's computer.
> Can I terminate it in my Linux box (which is the gateway) and for few of my windows
> clients make that IP my default gateway or is lartc needed here?
> I don't mind if even FTP protocol passes through the other link and the first
> one is used for browsing and mails.
> I need a simple solution to this and lartc was becoming too complex.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> With warm regards,
> -Payal
> 

sure, that's called multihosting. it's doable, all you need is to make 
your internal DHCP server hand out the appropriate default gateway 
address fro each machine

Re: more than 1 ISP

[Jose Maria Lopez]

El mié, 17 de 11 de 2004 a las 12:51, Payal Rathod escribió:
> Hi,
> My ISP gives me a speed of 48kbps maximum (actually 64kbps is promised
> but it never goes about 48). For a month or 2 we are taking one more connection
> of 48kbps from another ISP (actually a nearby company) for uploading data to
> our client's computer.
> Can I terminate it in my Linux box (which is the gateway) and for few of my windows
> clients make that IP my default gateway or is lartc needed here?
> I don't mind if even FTP protocol passes through the other link and the first
> one is used for browsing and mails.
> I need a simple solution to this and lartc was becoming too complex.
> 
> Any ideas anyone?
> With warm regards,
> -Payal

You can use the iproute2 command "ip" with the parameter
nexthop to use the 2 ISPs.

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