-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If he's using PF, he might as well use OpenBSD and use the trunk(4) interface for the bonus fail-over and aggregated bandwidth feature :).
This can also be achieved in Linux using bonding. But I haven't tested this so I'm now keeping my mouth shut. regards, Kenneth P. Oncinian Panasonic Communications Philippines Corporation Information Systems Division - Network and Infrastructure Department - -- PGP Public Key: http://m.1asphost.com/koncinian/koncinian.gnupg.key Glenn Remot wrote: > Linux Win wrote: > >> Hi guys! >> >> Im using FREEBSD box as my Linux gateway/fw. Now I want to have a >> multiple DSL connection wherein our network can use it at the same >> time and should avoid downtime once the other DSL connection is >> down. Could you show me the best docu or tool/s on how to do this? >> >> >> > freebsd as ur linux gateway...ur one mixed-up dude linux win..hehehe > :-) just kidding.. > anyways, if ur using freebsd, you can use pf (the *BSD firewall > implementation). > basically, u can't have two default gateways at the same time. > what you can do is provide for policy routing. like forcing all smtp > traffic through DSL1 then all http traffic through DSL2 somewhat > loadbalancing ur system. then u can do a little scripting > (shell/perl) that will monitor > ur current gateway (ping :-) ). If it's unreachable for a specific > period, ur script can then act accordingly, like changing the > /*defaultrouter */in ur rc.conf to ur 2nd DSL and editing ur pf.conf > > i suggest you use two boxes for ur gateway to provide for hardware > redundancy. > > hth. God bless! > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFD4YP49MTaiXoaMBgRAgKlAJ9ZSq8UCK1VkAANhm+GQYHzw/uhCACgh718 wKDrFoTVvpdLit6QTr/FkFk= =jv/N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
