Hi, OSFP is a dynamic routing protocol, isn't it. So is dynamic routing going to solve my problem. The problem is i do not want to use the best possible path ( cost vise ) to route a packet. I have to make use of all the availabe bandwitdh of the 3 ISP's in the most efficient manner. I have read about TEQ traffic equalizer. But it has been mentioned that you cannot combine 3 different isps to act as one. As if you are using TEQ at one end, you are bound to have it at the other end. with regards, Sushil Suresh ----- Original Message ----- From: Ramin Alidousti <ramin@xxxxxx> To: Arthur van Leeuwen <arthurvl@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sushil Suresh <sushil@xxxxxxx>; <lartc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [LARTC] Will advanced linux routing help me > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:39:27AM +0200, Arthur van Leeuwen wrote: > > > Doei, Arthur. (The tricky part is the link-state monitoring... at the TCP/IP > > level this is theoretically impossible...) > > Yes, indeed. There is no special protocol for this. That's why OSPF and > his younger and older brothers have those HELO packets. That's why TCP > has the optional keepalive segments (although, in case of TCP it's an > end-to-end behaviour). > > If you know the IP of the next hop router and if that router has not been > instructed to ignore ICMP requests, ping might help. If you don't know > the IP, pinging to the subnet broadcast will also do. > > Ramin > > > > > -- > > /\ / | arthurvl@xxxxxxxxxx | Work like you don't need the money > > /__\ / | A friend is someone with whom | Love like you have never been hurt > > / \/__ | you can dare to be yourself | Dance like there's nobody watching > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > LARTC mailing list / LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/2.4Routing/ >