On 2006/07/07 10:56, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote: > the motivation for asking this is that i'm running an ecommerce website from > work and am interested in having a failover and/or loadbalancing for it in the > event that the power goes out at work, etc. colocating the machine that serves > it is probably the best idea, but i was trying to be cheap and work with what > i > already have available (the 2 ADSL connections + old hw).
Colo sounds simpler. If you want to loadbalance/failover incoming connections over dual ADSL, you'll either need ISP support, or your own colo'd machine and run tunnels. If you _just_ want more bandwidth up, and don't care about the resilience, you might get away with two ADSLs and sending packets out both (probably using route-to in pf.conf; this does not involve natting and assumes the ISP doesn't ingress-filter too carefully: you'll probably find that most don't - and needs you to work out a way to split the outgoing traffic up). Probably not what you want for a high-reliability setup...
