Mark pointed out this Netgear product to me. It handles dual WAN
connections for load balancing or as a failover option.
http://www.smalldog.com/product/70697
For a bit under $300, frankly it's not worth my time to configure,
learn and test a system like pfSense or ZeroShell. At least from
a business perspective. From a toy/play point of view, I certainly
don't want to give up all that geek cred. :-)
Rene
Rubin Bennett wrote:
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:29 -0400, Nick Floersch wrote:
Again... I think the answer is not so much 'impossible' as 'how much time do I
have'?
It really does seem from the research I've done that pfSense, which uses *BSD
instead of Linux networking has the capability to handle multiple incoming
connections and to concatenate them. Rather than mucking with the iptables at
the command line, this seemed to us like the easiest route (no pun intended).
Nick
I've looked at pfSense from afar but haven't actually loaded it or run
it on a firewall. It seems solid, and hase lots of nifty features like
captive portal that make it an attractive package.
So, if I understand correctly you're saying that pfSense actually will
aggregate your disparate Internet connections and present them as a
single connection to the LAN, with invisible failover should one of the
links go down (hah! that's the part that I didn't mention before!)?
Rubin
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