Bolocks,
A linux box will route all your needs just as good as any cisco in this case.
Tho a cisco would look cool.

Cheers
Rob

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:51, Philip D'Ath wrote:
> This approach wont work.
>
> Lets say your default gateway is pointing to the JetStart circuit.
> Traffic comes in the JetStream circuit to your XP box. The reply gets
> routed out the JetStart circuit. At this point in time your screwed, as
> the JetStart box will attempt to do a NAT lookup to find out how to rewrite
> the packet, but it will have no record [correctly] of the packet coming in.
>
> What your wanting to do can be achieved with a Cisco router doing
> policy routing. A Cisco 831 could probably do it, which is a dual Ethernet
> router. You would plug your XP box into one interface, and your two DSL
> routers into the other. This unit is around $1k.
> It may also be possible to do it with a Cisco 837 ADSL router, and
> replace one of your existing DSL routers. You would set your default route
> to the 837, and have it policy route traffic that was meant to be going to
> the other router. The 837 is about the same price as an 831.
>
> The simplest approach would be to get a Cisco 1721, and put two
> JetStream/ADSL interfaces into it, and let it do everything for you in one
> box.
> But I doubt you would get any change out of $5k.
>
>
> Philip D'Ath
> http://www.ifm.net.nz/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On
> Behalf Of John Morch
> Sent: 3 September 2003 8:40 p.m.
> To: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
> Subject: How to Configure 2 Jetstream Connections from Different ISPs
>
>
> I have the following problem.
> Two Jetstream connections on two phone lines.
> One is Xtra with a fixed IP address (Jetstream Home 1000) that brings email
> to our mail server and http traffic to the internal web server that we
> allow
>
> some people to view. All works OK
>
> The other is just recent and is Jetstart with another ISP with unlimited
> bandwidth but no fixed IP address. It also works well. (Sometimes is
> faster) Xtra one has Dynalink modem and Jetstart has an old M1122.
>
> I have an XP machine with two ithernet cards running as a firewall to the
> internal network.
>
> If i set the default gateway on the internet ithernet card on the firewall
> to either adsl modem each on works ok but when using the jetstart one as
> the
>
> gateway, no email comes in from the internet.
> I have connected the dynalink to the M1122 and the firewall to the M1122
> and both modems are on different IP addresses.
>
> What i want to do is have all "traffic originating here go in out the
> Jetstart line and only "inbound" email and connections coming into our
> server go over the Xtra connection.
>
> Virtual Server settings are set on the Jetstream modem to correctly route
> the traffic through the firewall to the internal server yet it seems when i
> set the default gateway on the firewall to the Jetstart modem this incoming
> traffic in unable to get through.
>
> Any help appreciated??
>
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