Me and my new roommate have kind of a crazy idea and I'm wondering
if you guys in your infinate *ix knowledge might be able to point us in
the right direction.
We just moved into our new place and we had a lot of problems
getting the DSL installed and working. So after a week of no internet we
just called up and order a cable modem to tide us over until the DSL got
working. Its been a couple weeks and I'm getting adicted to the 1.5mb/s
transfer rates and don't really want to give it up for the DSL line coming
in but I also don't want to give up the nice 30ms pings I get on the DSL.
But I got suckered into this 3 year term of service agreement with my
awful unnamed local ISP. So we had this crazy idea. Why not keep both.
We have a box that acts as our uber router that will have a
wireless nic, wired nic, nic for the dsl, and nic for the cable. It will
be doing nat/firewall and dhcp. Thats about it. Is there anyway to tell
the machine to send all packets on ports 21 and 80 through the cable and
everything else through the DSL? If it's not posible to do it nativly in
the machine, would it be posible to do just for the nat clients?
Right now I have FreeBSD 4.4 on the box. I will probably be doing
the 4.5 upgrade this weekend. I'm not totaly attached to that OS though.
I'v played with Open and my roommate is into Slackware and linux in
general. So we have a pretty good range of skills in the area, were
really just looking for the best solution to the problem.
Anyone have any ideas? Are we just a little too crazy here?
-Leo
