Some more updates. I've decided to go with Astaro for the moment. Mostly because it's linux based and I am more comfortable with linux than with BSD (just a preference) and the ease of setup due to its use of objects & it's default installed options. The objects actually made it much easier to set-up and the multi-wan link had some good preset definitions (like an object defined for all the uplink address).
Although I initial ruled out pfSense (1.2.3) because of «difficulties» I had setting it up (cf. my twitter feed), I must have been on a bad day or something. I revisted pfSense following a discussion with Scott Ullrich and I stand corrected. It was a good choice and building the dualwan was not so difficult. However, building the NAT/rule stack was more time consuming I think in good part because it could use objects and have a general definition for the aggregated network links. eg. to build a NAT you have to create an entry for both wan links (with Astaro I could do it in one entry). Cheers to all who helped! On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 14:43, Thomas Fischer <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > Thought I would update you on my search... so the top recommendation from > the list was Astaro, and Vyatta or pfSense in second place. > > I've already ruled out Vyatta mostly cause I am a lazy bugger (and i spend > too much time doing command line configs as it is) 'cause of its router like > CLI interface. Although it is quite powerful, it just doesn't do the type of > load-balancing that I want (at least I was unable to identify how to) which > is rule based QoS (so port x cause out wan1 & port y goes on wan2 & the rest > is balanced, somebeing low priority depending on the type of traffic) > > pfSense looks quite good for what I want to do. However, it's already > giving me a headache on the configuration. Doesn't just seem intuitive. > > i'll be honest i am partially to Astaro, as i tested in the past for some > other solutions i did at work. Seems somewhat easier to configure and has > all the basics for what I need to do. however the 10ip limit on the > community edition is somewhat of a bummer. Why you may ask, well when you > have 4 ppl in the house each with their own device++. I took a count 2 game > consoles, 3 laptops, 2 ipod touches, 2 smartphones, NAS (with download > station), dual interface PC (gaming, dev, vmware - running sometimes with 3 > IPs). Anyway it all adds up quite quickly and although not everything is > connected at the same time, i did a quick count on my current router and i > easily see 7-8 ips at a time! Afraid to hit the limit. > > Right now, I am still testing configuration. I'll let you know what i > decide! > > l8r > > -- > Thomas Fischer > twitter.com/FVT fvter.wordpress.com > PGP Key: > https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x27FBA97646CF2077 > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > -- Thomas Fischer twitter.com/FVT fvter.wordpress.com PGP Key: https://keyserver1.pgp.com/vkd/DownloadKey.event?keyid=0x27FBA97646CF2077 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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