Network maintainance on dragonflybsd.org

[Matthew Dillon]

:
:>     There is going to be some serious restructuring of my subnet some
:>     time in the next two weeks.  Theoretically I'll be drilled through
:>     my cable modem while my DSL is down 
:> ...
:> 
:...
:Please accept my apologies as this is a newbie query
:
:. is the requirement of tunnel related to setup of a static
:tunnel IP for mail/web over a DSL connection ?
:
:. is the tunnel like GRE or IP/IP ?
:
:thanks
:Saifi.

    It is all invisible to end users (beyond potentially disrupting services
    for a little bit).  The DragonFly subnet is currently being tunneled
    over a cable modem instead of being directly routed over the DSL, so
    the DSL line can be worked on.  It's just PPTP with a few tricks to
    make normal MTUs work.

    The cable modem actually has better bandwidth and improved ping times
    over the DSL, but is a bit more fragile.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>