Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 4:33 AM
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
--- Eric F Crist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Dec 12, 2005, at 2:05 AM, Yance Kowara wrote:
Ted,
Thanks for the advice.
A friend of mine has just acquired an Internet
Cafe.
The previous owner connected the lan to 2
different
ADSL (two different ISPs) one is a back up he
said.
So, two ADSL routers with half the Lan connected
to
one router and another half to the other router.
I am just thingking of a way to optimise the
connection and came accross Steven's article. I
thought I could do something similar with *BSD +
pf.
There is such thing as Dual Wan ADSL router:
http://www.infosmart.com.tw/p-ndr3024.htm
However, they are quite pricey compare to setting
up a
*BSD box (using old readily available hardware).
So, if this load balancing idea does not work, any
other thing I can do to optimise two DSLs?
I also came accross this (linux way):
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-
links.html
Is this worth trying?
Kind regards,
Yance,
The reason, without a pretty heavily involved
configuration, this
won't work is packet routing. Unless you're using
BGP, Border
Gateway Protocol, you're not going to reliably route
return packets
to any interface other than the interface it was
transmitted from.
I'm guessing that the dual-wan device you speak of
handles some
things differently. Something like a large file
download is going to
fail to utilize the full bandwidth, however, because
of the nature of
the traffic. If you really need to boost network
bandwidth, you're
going to be forced into either working directly with
an ISP to link
multiple DSL channels, or, more likely, obtain
business-class service
over a T1/T3 setup.
HTH
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Eric F Crist
Secure Computing Networks
http://www.secure-computing.net
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Hmmmmmm, what about putting zebra into the picture ...
a solution or chaos?
What feature in Zebra exactly do you think will help in
this scenario?
Ted
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You could, if the purpose is to combine bandwidth accross multiple DSL links,
use multi-link PPP, afaik - the only way to do so is through mpd
(/usr/ports/net/mpd) ... not catch the whole thread, so feel free to correct me
if wrong, mpd should work for you.
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