Lately I've been entertaining the idea of setting up a neighborhood network (wireless and possibly some wired). I have a few neighbors who subscribe to your typical consumer grade broadband connection (e.g. Comcast cable or Verizon DSL) and a number of neighbors with no connectivity or are still stuck on dial-up. Currently I'm sharing my connection with my nearest neighbor but I'd like to expand the network and incorporate the uplinks of the willing. I'm no networking guru but I'm pretty sure this is entirely possible with Linux's networking capabilities. I've taken a look at the LARTC HOWTO and found the "Routing for multiple uplinks/providers" very helpful. What I would like to know is if this is still the best way to accomplished what is described. I know that state of Linux networking changes rapidly and I wasn't sure how up to date this section is. I know that there have been advances in projects such as LVS where I can possibly see IPVS being useful (I may be wrong, like I said I'm no guru). So, assuming I have a Linux server (e.g. Linksys WRT54G) at each cable or DSL uplink is the method described in the HOWTO still what I should be looking at? If this is the solution I should be looking at it would seem that I would need to build tunnels from each one of the uplinks to a central gateway as the documentation assumes that all the uplinks are local to the gateway/router. Is there any way around this? Thank you for your help. Assuming that I manage to get something like this up and running I do plan on writing detailed documentation for others who may be interested in setting up a similar headache. --adam _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list LARTC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.ds9a.nl/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lartc
