Maintaining best connection on WinXP Pro

[Casey Halverson]

You could run OSPF on a windows laptop, but it would do nothing.  Not
only would the remote ends need to also participate in OSPF, but they
would need to be the same autonomous system.     

Interface metrics could be a good idea, especially since your last
resort (EVDO) is the one that will likely never disconnect.  However,
roaming will not be seamless in this case.  Switching interfaces will
break connections.  Marginal wifi signals will blackhole your
traffic...it may not be the best idea to set EVDO the lowest.  But give
it a try.

If you want to change the interface order, do the following:

go to network and dialup connections, properties, internet TCP/IP
properties, advanced tcp/ip settings, and take a look at the "interface
metric".

And finally, the only way you can do this type a thing without owning
the far end is by tunneling back to a central point and weighting those
tunnels or running a routing protocol like OSPF.  That way, roaming
would be seamless.  


> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at seattlewireless.net] On Behalf Of Fred Weston
> Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:22 PM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List
> Subject: Re: Maintaining best connection on WinXP Pro
> 
> You could even run EIGRP if it was a Cisco XP laptop, heh.  
> But seriously, I am 99% sure that Windows server supports 
> OSPF, maybe you could find some sort of hacked version for 
> this particular purpose? 
> That's the end of my ideas though, good luck!
> 
> On 2/28/06, Ralph Sims <ralph at sims.cc> wrote:
> > OSPF on an XP laptop?  Something like a 32-bit version of 
> Zebra would 
> > be great.
> >
> > > latency, hop count, reliability, bandwidth, etc.  It 
> almost sounds 
> > > like you need some kind of special routing protocol to do this, 
> > > because this is in essence exactly what a router would be 
> in charge 
> > > of doing.