> >I've only briefly read about BGP...but isn't this what BGP multi-hop is
> >for? i.e. the BSD box running gated acts as your router and speaks BGP to
> >the remote end of each of your T1's.
>
> Only problem is that the router in between has to know about the networks
> also.. other wise the BSD box will try to send a packet to the 'end of one
> of your T's' and the in-between router will say "Huh? Where the hell is this
> packet going?".
Why? Say you have a Unix box running gated with BGP acting as the default
gateway for all the boxes on your net. You then have 2 relatively dumb
routers...perhaps a pair of PM2eR's each with it's own T1 to the net.
Each PM2eR has a default route to the address at the other end of its W1
port and appropriate network routes such that they know your network is on
the ethernet. Would it be a problem for the Unix box to decide which pipe
to send packets out through and for the PM2eR's to comply? Packets come
to the PM2eR's from the the Unix box, and if they are not destined for the
localnet (or connected ports), they go out the T1.
I'm not saying this is a good solution, or even something I'd want to try,
but it seems as though it should work.
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