[plug] Another network question (IP Aliasing)

[Craig Ringer]

>>Nice. Too bad there isn't an equally good way to distribute incoming 
>>connections except things like round-robbin DNS that require planning 
>>and take a while to activate. Othewise, I'd be picking this setup in an 
>>instant as a way of doing dual 56k (or more) to an ISP that doesn't 
>>suppport multilink, like our current one. Alas, most of our important 
>>traffic is externally initiated (email, etc) so any tricky routing 
>>policies on the local machine wouldn't do any good.
> 
> It depends on your setup, but you can maybe shift
> certain services to a separate link?
> e.g. all mail.

Not really. Our present link is quite fine, what we need is a fallback 
that's not 33.6kbps (56k incoming data rate). There are no affordable 
alternatives to ADSL available that I'm aware of - requirements being 
always-on and preferably no incoming data charge.

I suppose BR ISDN (dual mode) would do the trick as a backup, but lets 
just say its business pricing is ... extremely unattractive.

Craig