two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT
Tomas Quintero
tomasq at gmail.com
Thu May 12 08:06:41 PDT 2005
> I have two ISP connections, a DSL line and a Cable Modem line. I want
> to plug both connections into a FreeBSD box that has three nics in it,
> one nic for each ISP connection and the last nic for my NAT. How can
> I bind the connections together without any other sort of router?
> I've used ipfw a bit over the past couple of years, and I've got a
> basic NAT working for the other LAN PCs. I can't seem to find any
> docs on how to proceed with two connections however. I've got two
> connections for the sake of failover but it'd be nice to actually use
> both of them instead of one or the other sitting idle all the time.
> Would it be as simple as adding a static route from each connection to
> the other?
>
PF is wonderful for this. I manage a router with 3 DSL Circuits and
have PF setup to round-robin between them. The configuration is fairly
simple, and I can provide my pf.conf if you'd like for some
clarification on how to go about doing it.
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-Tomas Quintero
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