> 1. this is not for a company but for me at home as practice, for future > jobs, I have a limited budget.
That makes more sense, then - as your labour is actually "free". Infinity times zero is still a lot cheaper than a VZ business connection... > 2. I can for 10 dollars a month receive from Comcast 4 dynamic IP > addresses on my internet connection. While Verizon would cost me another > 100 bucks a month for business class connection. I would rather not make > this a one show pony and only be able to keep it for a couple of months > due to cost. Dynamics won't help you with CARP. CARP requires static IPs (AFAIK). I believe CARP requires, like VRRP and HSRP, a minimum of N+1 IP addresses (N=# of failover hosts). For testing purposes, you could have all these hiding behind an ordinary home router, although that's not quite what you were hoping for. > 3. I was hoping to get load balancing of the connections working not > just Failover. Good luck. NAT more-or-less prevents this from working unless you have application-layer intelligence. For an overview of what pfSense *can* do in this area, read: http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_2.0 http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Multi-WAN_and_Compatibility http://www.netlife.co.za/tech-guides/46-linuxoss-and-networking/34-bsd-dual-wan-router-using-pfsense.html -Adam Thompson [email protected] _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
