On Sun, 2008-02-10 at 12:58 -0200, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> >> I'm in the situation of having two broadband ISPs available here (cable
> >> and ADSL), which both are at times really unreliable. So I thought of
> >> signing up with both and set up a router that automatically routes the
> >> more important packets through the WAN port where the traffic is best.
> >> Is something like this possible, with reasonable expense and effort?
> 
> First off, thanks to all who responded. Searching for such devices actually
> brought up a number of them, as Forrest said. Does anybody have any
> recommendations or experiences (pro or contra)? I'm specifically interested
> in QoS WRT VoIP (various protocols), VPN tunneling or VPN client/server
> functionality in the router and inbound/outbound load balancing.
> 
> Steve Howes wrote:
> 
> > Just get two routers.. same internal ip range.. two default routes with
> > different metrics. If one is down the other will be used. Can't really
> > do much more than that without some shinier kit.
> 
> I'm not quite sure I understand this correctly. Does this require that the
> PCs on the LAN have two network ports 

No, one network port on each machine, the two routers are on the same
subnet.

> (and the two default routes with
> different metrics would be on every computer on the LAN)?

Yup. 

TTYL
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