On Wednesday 30 January 2002 17:05, Tim Howe wrote: > 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.
It sounds like that IS the way their hardware is set up. They're just looking for an environment with user land tools to make what they want to do as straight forward as possible. I'd sure think that pf would do all they want and more. > ----- 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
