I've read several threads about splitting local and international traffic between two accounts, and I'm still not entirely sure I understand what my connection settings need to be to get the whole lot to work. I have successfully split traffic for a few days last month, but due to several problems (listed below), I am unable to continue using the same (router-based) method.
Firstly, as far as I can see, the router isn't really powerful enough to handle all the routes simultaneously, and it's also painfully slow to set up individual routes via the telnet interface. So I want to use a linux box to handle everything.
Secondly, the router apparently isn't bright enough to only route local traffic through the local account. If, for some reason, it can't, it falls back on the main account. This is quite disastrous if you don't carefully watch the connection status of the local account. Maybe there is a way to guarantee correct routing from the router side of things, but I'd rather use a linux box if at all possible.
Thirdly, the method I used to share the connections a mere two days ago has abruptly stopped working. Telnetting to the router is *much* slower than it was, for no apparent reason. I reset it to make sure, this is definitely the case. Listing the routing table entries with the 'route' command also takes a long time to fully complete (it hangs on the final 'default' entry). And to top it all off, when I have the second account set up I cannot access the internet at all, even though the main account is also connected.
All I really want to know (sorry for that flood of text
) is how to establish pppoe connections from the computer, specifically, with linux. I don't really care which distribution, but Ubuntu is preferable. And more importantly, what settings do I need to change on the router to prevent it from automatically establishing connections, and to let me dial them from the linux box instead?
Thanks for any help you can give
Firstly, as far as I can see, the router isn't really powerful enough to handle all the routes simultaneously, and it's also painfully slow to set up individual routes via the telnet interface. So I want to use a linux box to handle everything.
Secondly, the router apparently isn't bright enough to only route local traffic through the local account. If, for some reason, it can't, it falls back on the main account. This is quite disastrous if you don't carefully watch the connection status of the local account. Maybe there is a way to guarantee correct routing from the router side of things, but I'd rather use a linux box if at all possible.
Thirdly, the method I used to share the connections a mere two days ago has abruptly stopped working. Telnetting to the router is *much* slower than it was, for no apparent reason. I reset it to make sure, this is definitely the case. Listing the routing table entries with the 'route' command also takes a long time to fully complete (it hangs on the final 'default' entry). And to top it all off, when I have the second account set up I cannot access the internet at all, even though the main account is also connected.
All I really want to know (sorry for that flood of text
) is how to establish pppoe connections from the computer, specifically, with linux. I don't really care which distribution, but Ubuntu is preferable. And more importantly, what settings do I need to change on the router to prevent it from automatically establishing connections, and to let me dial them from the linux box instead?Thanks for any help you can give
