[RndTbl] Multihoming

[Kevin McGregor]

A more complete discussion can be found at (surprise!) Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multihoming

I'm leaning more toward John's position, but it's still not entirely clear to me.

----- Original Message -----
From: Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
Date: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 6:25 pm
Subject: [RndTbl] Multihoming

> On  5 Jun, John Lange wrote:
> > 
> > I'm in a nit-picky mood so I'll just point out that plugging 2
> > connections into a firewall that supports dual wan is not multi-
> homing.
> http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci212611,00.html
> 
> Sounds like the setup to me.  We have a firewall/router (linux) 
> that has
> 2 DSL links (2 separate modems on 2 separate lines) to the 
> internet (2
> separate real-world IP addresses).  Some traffic (port-based) goes out
> #1, some goes out #2.
> 
> Sorry if I got the terms wrong, but that always meant 
> "multihoming" to
> me.  I could very well be wrong.
> 
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