I've been subbing this list for a couple of months now, knowing this day would come :-) I too am trying to do an equalize/next hop for 2 adsl lines. At the moment though I am testing with 1 2MB adsl modem and an ether connection to a switch from a second 2MB line. I am doing it from the *outside* via ssh, which makes it a little more difficult, since when I mess up I lose access until I can get someone to restart the network without my changes... I began by using the example from lartc.org, combined with a cron to undo my changes every half hour, but moved to following this page from sysadmin magazine: http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0201h/ For some reason I got a better sense of what I was trying to do from it, plus it included a section on just where to place the new rules into the system scripts. It did not say just where to place the section for ifup-routes though. I think I've got it pretty close, but since I just locked myself out again... It's a mandrake 9.0 box and I didn't see where to prevent a default route from being set when it brings up ppp0 on the adsl line. I sort of hoped that my default routes would get set first and force the other to fail with the Exists error. Since I couldn't find it, I don't know in what order it gets run. I think that's where I messed up, but I can't get back in to read the logs right now. Also, the above article uses ip to route to the lan, and I had intended/understood that I would masquerade to it later. Which is the correct approach then? I will want to move on to tc when I finally get this part working. from the article: advanced eth0 10.0.0.0/24 via 10.0.0.1 table 1 advanced eth0 10.0.0.0/24 via 10.0.0.1 table 2 advanced eth1 0/0 via 63.89.102.1 table 1 advanced eth2 0/0 via 65.3.17.1 table 2 Where eth0 is their lan and eth1/2 are isp. They have a new section in ifup-routes grepping a file named static-routes for '^advanced'. -- Regards, Paul Evans
