I think the easiest thing to do would be to install two NIC cards in the machine, configure one for each network and then filter each interface as desired.
TimH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Leo Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: [EUG-LUG:1308] Crazy DSL/Cable combo idea > 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 > >
