combining 2 ADSL Lines

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:19:36PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote:
> Hexren wrote:
> >I have the following problem, I have 2 ADSl Lines and would like to
> >combine those 2 into 1 big. I have full control of both the gateway
> >from my LAN and another Server in the internet which I coud use as a
> >second gateway.
> >
> >What I am thinking of is something like virtualizing so that in the
> >end I have VirtualInterface1 which is DSL1 and DSL2.
> >
> >p.s. Multilink PPP is unfortunately not an option as the lines are
> >rented from different providers (I think that is prohibiting multilink
> >isn't it ?) :(
> >
> 
> Sure you can combine two lines for bandwidth boost and redundancy. 
> Ports/net/mpd is probably the best choice considering you have FreeBSD 
> installed on both gateways. Get familiar with this port, its 
> configuration is not so difficult. You could even encrypt and/or 
> compress both links to gain even more speed and security (if the 
> external server is on a fast, secure line and has a fast CPU). You 
> should probably sign up with mpd-users mailing list at 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd.
>

ng_one2many(4) may be a better solution.

Marc