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On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 11:30:14PM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > It is an issue and not intended to work that way. The modem to > router interface is PPPoE - and in this case the E part is Ethernet > and really just the transport part - there is no IP at that level > and it's really just intended to be a bit of wire from the modem to > the router. > > (The draytek modems can have an IP, but it's really for out of band > access/monitoring, etc. not for carrying transit data) Thanks. That makes sense and that was understood. > What you need is a router with 3 ethernet ports - 2 on separate > wires to the 2 modems and one to the office LAN. The router then > runs 2 PPPoE sessions to the 2 routers and you then do some routing > magic to load balance, fail-over, policy route, or whatever it is > you need to do with both connections. > > Or 2 routers, each with a separate physical cable to the 2 modems - > but then it's harder to select the route to use for machines on the > LAN - if you need to) Actually, that's exactly what we're trying to achieve. We're not doing any loadbalancing. All machines simply use the original router as their gateway, but the second machine allows us to connect to the network in case the main connection and/or router is having issues (and also to perform maintenance without interfering with the rest of the traffic). Thanks! Martijn. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq