> anybody got an ifstated.conf they're willing to share for having

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> redundancy on their pppoe connection? example: your firewall that does

> the pppoe goes down and you want another machine to restart the pppoe

> session and route your network.

I dont have the configuration with me right now (and it is probably gone

since the site using it does not have adsl anymore) however the most

fun configuration I did was something like that:
two adsl links, two OpenBSD firewalls, using carp for failover.

each firewall had connections to _both_ adsl modems, so that

they can balance outgoing stuff.
The load balancing was done using multipath routing (route -multi).

The carp was used on the inner interface.
So if carp was master, I would bring UP both pppoe interfaces

if one of the pppoe connections went down, I would adjust

routing to route over the remaining session etc.
In order to make failover work smoothly, I matched the MAC

addresses on the corresponding outer interfaces of each

firewall so that they can see the same pppoe sessions,

and built the kernel with PPPOE_TERM_UNKNOWN_SESSIONS
Can
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