At 01:15 PM 2/16/2002 -0600, you wrote: >What type of routers are you using?
Currently, we are using a FreeBSD based router. However, we are not adverse to the idea of a dedicated router. Here is the idea: some people that I do some work for want to decrease the money they spend on bandwidth for their websites. Their idea is to use business DSL. Unfortunately, they need around 2 Mbit/s, which is more than a single DSL line can provide. Plus, we need a bit of elbow room anyway. So, we need to bond a few DSL lines in some way. Now, this doesn't have to be very intelligent. Since we get several IP addresses assigned to us for each DSL line we could assign multiple IPs to the web server interface and then use DNS round-robin at the client-side to direct them down a given DSL path. I realize that most clients are sticky when it comes to DNS and round-robin, but we are just looking for a rough way to load-share right now. But I'm wondering a) how can I easily set this up in FreeBSD and/or, 2) is there a dedicated black box that will do this for me? Regards, Dustin >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Behalf Of Dustin Puryear >Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 11:37 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; >[EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [brluglist] load-sharing bandwidth.. > > >Has anyone configured some type of load-sharing across n Internet >connections? Say, two DSL or T1 lines? We won't have upstream support from >our provider so I am pretty sure load-balancing is out of the question. If >not this, what about just using a few Internet connections for redundancy? >Any experience with that? I'm looking for some input as this is my first >time to attempt this. > >Regards, Dustin > >--- >Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Information Systems Contractor >http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear >PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net >In the beginning the Universe was created. >This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams > >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ > >================================================ >BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group >Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. >Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change >your subscription information. >================================================ --- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Information Systems Contractor http://members.telocity.com/~dpuryear PGP Key available at http://www.us.pgp.net In the beginning the Universe was created. This has been widely regarded as a bad move. - Douglas Adams ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
