Re: Advanced Linksys routing question...

From: Stan (blah@igs.net)
Date: 12/05/02 

From: Stan <blah@igs.net>
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2002 12:05:39 -0500

My intention is to get the outbound traffic working. I'm not too
concerned about the inbound traffic. Both of my ISP accounts are home
services with dynamic IP's anyways. I just want my home LAN to have
internet access 100% of the time. If I can balance the load between
the two ISP's that would be nice, but it's not a necessity. Will RIP
on the internal LAN allow the two routers to determine a working path
to the internet when one of my ISP's goes down? Do I have to
configure RIP listener's on the machines in the house (one running 95,
a couple running 98, two running xp home, and one running redhat 8) or
can I get things to work while sticking with DHCP on the LAN? Or do I
just buy the router mentioned below and sell the old ones on eBay?
Suggestions are welcome.

Stan Zapaticky
stanNOSPAMzap@igsNOSPAM.net

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On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 04:46:53 -0800, "Les VanBrunt"
<vanbrunt@vanbrunt.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 01:15:45 +0000, Stan wrote:
>
>> I have a DSL (www.igs.net) internet connection and a cable
>> (www.rogers.ca) internet connection at my home. I also have two
>> Linksys BEFSR41 routers handy. What I would like to do is to get the
>> two routers talking to each other so that they will automatically
>> combine the bandwidth of the two connections to my LAN (assuming both
>> high-speed connections are working) and if one of the connections goes
>> down, I would like all traffic to be automatically routed to the
>> connection that IS working using RIP that the routers support. Is
>> this even possible? Or will I have to get a new $400 USD router from
>> Nexland such as this one?
>
>I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I don't see how this will be
>possible.
>
>This may be possible to do for your outbound traffic, but not for your
>inbound... especially with two different ISPs. If it was 2 feeds from the
>same ISP, you might be able to work an arrangement with them to load
>balance your traffic.
>
>RIP is meant to be an internal routing protocol, not external. RIP sucks
>as a routing protocol, so I don't see why router manufacturers insist on
>making it available instead of a better protocol such as OSPF.
>
>Inbound failover is possible using BGP, but your not going to get an AS number
>from ARIN being only a home user.
>
>Les VanBrunt
>
>>
>> http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm
>> The Pro800turbo Load-Balances 2 different Internet connections making
>> them seem as one. This enables full use of BOTH lines at the same
>> time. Users can define percentages of use for each line if they like.
>> Also, if one line goes down, 100% of the traffic is sent to the good
>> line... Automatically! Great for networks with heavy loads or power
>> surfers that like to download multiple files, like MP3s, at once.
>> Speed up your network NOW!
>>
>> Stan Zapaticky
>> stanNOSPAMzap@igsNOSPAM.net
>>
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