Lloyd, Further to Chuck's post, here's a link to the pfSense wiki page on inbound load balancing. I don't have any experience with it personally but it wouldn't take more than an hour and an old machine to have working setup that you could play around with.
http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Inbound_Load_Balancing Dave On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Chuck Mariotti <[email protected]> wrote: > I have setup a pfSense box with three NICs... LAN, WAN, WAN2... > > pfSense can monitor each WAN and loadbalance across them. If one fails, it > can use the other... when the failed comes out of failed state, it can load > balance them again. I have this setup with a T1 (Static) and Rogers Internet > Unplugged (DHCP)... I have only had it working for a week, so I don't have > any reports on issues... > > As Doug said, if it's strictly outbound that is needed to be failover, this > is fairly easy. However, if you need inbound I think it's fairly tough to > remap external IPs to different ISPs. > > Regards, > Chuck > > -----Original Message----- > From: Aloysius Thevarajah Lloyd [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [on-asterisk] Dual Wan and Load Balancing > > Hi Everyone, > > How to build a reliable Dual Wan & load balancing in the Following Scenarios > > *Scenario-1* > > ISP1 - DSL with Static IP > ISP2 - Broadband DHCP > > *Scneraio-2* > > ISP1 - DSL with Static IP > ISP2 - DSL with Static IP > > *Scenario-3* > > ISP1 - Broadband DHCP > ISP2 - Broadband DHCP > > > Does any one have any recommendation Hardware ( Not Expensive) or Software( > I prefer) ? > > > > Thank you > Lloyd > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
