[SunRescue] Look, he is *quite* fond of his little router appliance too!

[Ken Hansen]

Pete,

I could not agree more - 15 minutes and my home network was sharing the DSL
service.

The down side is that since I don't have one "alway up/very important"
machine (linux router), without discipline, I can find myself without a
fully-functional system. The upside is that I can take any machine off the
network without bringing the network down.

I just need to get automatic fail-over to a dial-up connection if the DSL
service drops out - I have an old serial router (4 port hub, NAT router that
has two serial ports on the back - can be configured for dial-in, out or
both...) but I can't figure out the automatic part.

I can manually set the Cable/DSL router to use an internal address as the
gateway when the link drops, but I yearn for an automatic solution.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter L. Wargo" <pwargo at basenji.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Look, he is *quite* fond of his little router
appliance too!


> On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
>
> > Just got this weeks Inforworld, and noticed this title on Nick
Petreley's
> > column "The Open Source":
> >
> >     Replacing a Linux gateway with a cheap appliance
>
> Hey, I've loved the Macsense stuff since the dial-on-demand palmrouter.
> Good stuff, inexpensive, and it *does not* break.  I have a buttload of
> Suns, I could easily set up a NAT/Firewall/router, but why?  I plug this
> in, set it up, and forget it.  I like the path to basenji.com to be
> uncomplicated. ;-)