If gray market was ok, I'd get a Cisco 2621 (dual 10/100) with a T1 WIC for $200, good for 20Mbps of throughput. If you need extra interfaces a NM-2E2W ($50) or NM-2FE2W ($200) expansion card gives you Ethernets #3 and #4. Terminate all of your networks with it and well inside your base budget. You can configure any kind of routing and NAT policies you need imagine for your load balancing.
-D On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Rene Churchill <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > René Churchill [email protected] > Geek Two 802-244-7880 x527 > Your Source for Local Information http://www.wherezit.com >
