[Sussex] [OT] Solaris and Hardware

Ronan Chilvers ronan at thelittledot.com
Sun Mar 19 17:29:20 UTC 2006


Hi Rob

On Sat, 18 Mar 2006 14:08:15 -0000
"Rob Malpass" <rob at malpass133.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

> 2) Networking.   I have two broadband connections via two routers on
> the same network.   Wanadoo have just axed their news server (without
> telling us) so I can't send usenet messages except by paying.
> However ntlworld (my other ISP) still have one.   Trouble is, if I
> switch my settings to shove all traffic through ntlworld, I can't
> send mail from Wanadoo (because not Wanadoo subnet).   Catch 22 - if
> I shove all my stuff through Wanadoo - no access to ntlworld's news
> server (wrong subnet).   I realise I could just use one PC for news,
> one for mail etc but that's a bit of a faff which got me thinking...

How about you have a default route for Wanadoo but set up a static
route for t'other sub net on which the news server resides?  All
traffic goes via wanadoo pipe, except for news server stuff which goes
out ntl pipe...

Any good?

Cheers
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