On Wednesday 20 January 2010 13:57, Frank Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 09:50 -0800, R-Elists wrote: > > ummm, why do the two different networks need an IP on the same > > subnet ? > > I have had a number of people ask me why I want this arrangement, where > I have two modems on a single outbound subnet. > > This is (going to be) a server with limited upload bandwidth. By having > two outbound connections, I can use a round robin dns entry to share the > load between the two connections and increase my capacity. Please be aware that DNS was not designed to do what you are doing. Yes it will do a round-robin but is not connection aware. Lose a link and you lose half of the connections even though one link is still active. -- Regards Robert Linux User #296285 http://counter.li.org