On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Benjamin Gavin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've got a problem. I have two providers (cable modem/DSL) and I need
> to load-balance the connection between them. I don't want to do BGP, and
> would prefer something that is marginally easy to maintain. I don't care
> about balancing based on load, simple round-robin style balancing would be
> fine. Here's a "picture":
>
> Internal Network (192.168.x.x)
> |
> v
> FreeBSD 4.2-RC firewall
> | |
> V V
> cable DSL
>
> Each external side is currently DHCP, but could be static if necessary.
> What I need is when a request goes out through the firewall for the
> machine to basically "choose a side". Then once the connection is
> established it could stay on that pipe, or flip back and forth (whichever
> is easier).
>
> Here's what I've tried:
>
> 1. ipfw + 2xnatd, doesn't seem to work, since ipfw rules can't randomly
> choose on of two rules (AFAIK)
Check out the probability stuff in ipfw. There has been a battle
over this for a while. Many people say that you MUST run a
routing daemon (ie BGP) to do this. Don;t know about ipfilter.
Nick Rogness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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