On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 07:40 AM, Hans Krueger wrote:
I want to have more than one gate way I've got 2 dial up boxes so if one fails I can use the other one I can have more than one in windows their got to be a way to do this in linux
I couldn't find anything specific related to clients, but found lots on alternate routes for gateways, etc. Google: linux alternate gateway I would assume (and we all know what that means :-0), that you could set you clients up to use the alternate routes in the routing table should the primary go down. Yast2 in 7.3 has a setting for routes under advance network that lists the primary gateway and has a routing table to add dummy/gateway. Here's where my assumption comes in: (somebody please correct me. I need more info also) I would guess that you can set alternate gateway there. Under expert config it has all the info settings that seem to make it work that way. I am also going to guess that it works similar to dns/alternate dns server. There are some articles in the above search that lead me to believe this, but I have no experience in the matter. Most of the relevant links talk about gateways using alternate routes and are implementation guidelines and not tutorials or technical. Should apply the same to clients. If a gateway can do it I don't see why a client couldn't. The linux documentation project has lots of info. Don't have time to sort through it right now. Sorry.:-( Here's the link. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/index.html http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO/x552.html Hope it gives you a direction to start. Let me know what you find. will