Ok well this is the situation

i have a connection from roadrunner and a connection from rcn.

I have one server where i run http,ftp,smtp,imap bla bla bla.

both those connections are behind a router but all the ports i need for me are forwarded. Now my question is

how can i set my system to listen to both ip adresses?

i dont want to set all my servers configs and stuff (beside i dont know how to do it .. i just dont feel like it)

is there a way i can just have both hooked up and set as default route?

ii dont know if that explained it. let me try one more time.

i have a hostname from free dyndns .

hostname1(roadrunner) and hostname2(rcn) right now the roadrunner one is active so if you goto http://hostname one it will goto my apache server now what i want to do when i have rcn connected too is when a user goes to hostname2 it would goto the same apache server just using another route.

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another question.
is there a way i can set up my system that when a user goes to hostname1 or hostname2 that what ever data he needs would be sent half over hostname one and half over hostname2?

ive been reading the howtos... now im trying to make sense out of them.

Well first you must have two NICs in the same server for obvious reasons. Now I'm not exactly sure but I believe that all the services you mentioned will just listen for connections on their respective ports regardless of the ip address it used to get there. So setup the two NICs so they interface with the desired ISPs. Setup dyndns to your liking. Now when you tell a computer to connect to host1 or host2 they should take their own routes. On thing to note is that the NIC assosiated with your default gateway will always be the interface that sends information back. So if data comes in on eth0 and goes out on eth1 to your default gateway route there MIGHT be a conflict as the end station won't know where this mysteriosly address data is from. So maybe there is a way to make sure information that comes in on an interface goes OUT on that interface.

--tarballedtux