Re: How to clean up a Mac's internal network routing tables?

In article <47e17847$0$10638$fa0fcedb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Graham J
<graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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I'm sure you (or somebody) posted an exactly similar question a few weeks
back.
It might have been me but not exactly the same problem.
My suggestion at the time was to get an Ethernet router with two WAN
connections. This router connects to absolutely all your internal
computers, providing them with DHCP and DNS. Your two external routes
connect one to each WAN port. To select between them, you open the
management screen of the dual-WAN router and specify the appropriate default
route.


How do you receive email when the ADSL service is down?
I don't, but the failure mode is frequent short term outages, at worst
30 sec or so every 4 minutes. SMTP is quite good about that. Currently
the link has been up for nearly 52 hours. Close to an all time record.
Would it not be better to get a reliable ADSL service? Provided you are
less than about 8km from the exchange, you should be able to get a reliable
connection - if not, find an ISP that can help you achieve this.
I notice that you and I are both with the same excellent ISP (Zen). The
problem is with the local loop. BT Openreach refuse to improve a mile
or so of gale lashed Victorian copper oxide between the village and my
house. It drops 22 dB in the last 400 meters and they won't even fix
that. We are about 7Km as the poles flow or 5Km straight line from the
exchange.
Of course
I understand that you might not get a speed any better than about 250
kbits/sec; in which case why not use the wireless mesh all the time and
ditch the ADSL permanently?
It has its own problems. The ISP behind it is not a patch on Zen. I
have to rely on neighbours' idea of power safety. Besides I like the
idea of not leaving my mail lying about for the thought police.

So I'm hanging on till we get fibre to the cabinet or something better.
Or till I can get the village mesh with a bit more redundancy. I live
so far outside that I have to rely on a single wireless link to the
nearest neighbour mesh node, which is 1.8Km thataway. Still, the views
are nice.

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