>A 10Mb/s connection is a LOT of traffic. How many people are you
>talking about? 20 people would be WELL served off a 10Mb/s switched
>link.
Only 5 people. Maybe 6.
> http://ipmasq.cjb.net/
> http://dijon.nais.com/~nevo/masq/
Thanks for the references..
>Hehehe.. true but you'll probably have to split of your traffic via DNS.
>Are all your addresses given out via DHCP?
Yes, the two external interfaces will have dhcp assigned addresses, but the
internal address will be static.
>Yes and no. If you setup your own domain, you run your own DNS!
>But.. though www.abc.com will resolve to your dorm address,
>say 10.0.0.100 will resolve back to a campus name. Though this
>is annoying, it won't break anything though some sites will complain
>about this split.
We may just pitch in and get a domain. That'd add to the coolness a whole lot.
>No.. I think you get it. Problem is.. I'm not aware of any FTP clients
>that work this way. And, if you were doing this FTP from a MASQed
>machine, I suppose a special IP_MASQ_FTP module could be written
>to do this but thats beyond my knowledge.
Actually, the way I was thinking of this was that the masq (ipfwadm) would
take care of all this. All the interface switching, blah, blah would be
taken care of independant of the applications and corresponding modules.
Ones that aren't known to be compatible can be dealt with in a 'normal'
masqing way. Since ipmasqing already does the address translation, why
can't it do this in addition? The only thing that would have to be tweaked
would be ipmasq.
I realize this isn't coded yet, but I think it might be something to
consider, if it isn't too hard. Just be able to feed it the interfaces to
balance on, and a weight for each protocol/port. Maybe add in a protocol or
two that are only allowed on a certain interface (maybe to take care of the
ftp problem), and away you go.
>No probs.. hehe.. I get a sick pleasure helping out on weird
>esoteric problems like this!
I'll take that as a compliment =)
--Doug Clements
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