Broadband AND Dial-up

Johng · 03-29-2003, 04:40 PM

I have a network card and router, and an external serial modem. I need to access two different ISP - one account is ADSL and the other dial-up.

Can I retain the dial-up option as well as using the network card + router for ADSL on my Mandrake 9 KDE machine?

SlickWilly · 03-30-2003, 08:16 PM

I woudl imagine so, although I expect you'll have to down your ethernet card before dial'ing up on the external modem - otherwise you'll get confusing 'default gateway' / broadcast / rooting loop problems.

But theoretically you should be able to do thusly :

surf on adsl
ifdown eth0
pppd on
putz around on slow modem
pppd off
ifup eth0

Slick.