2 adsl connections load balancing with natd/ipfw

eculp at encontacto.net eculp at encontacto.net
Wed May 26 03:44:23 PDT 2004


Quoting Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen at ispro.net.tr>:

> Daniel Ek wrote:
>
>> Evren Yurtesen wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I looked for such a long time in mailing lists and google but I 
>>> couldnt find anything conclusive about how can I do load balancing 
>>> for 2 ADSL links I have. I have 2 ADSL connections to the same ISP 
>>> and they are the same speed. I just want to load balance it so that 
>>> both links will be used evenly (or about even).
>>>
>>> Any tips or suggestions?
>>>
>>> Evren
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>> I have done a similar project with Linux not FreeBSD as I didn't 
>> find any appropriate software for FreeBSD and found that mon with 
>> Linux Heartbeat + some configuration, did the job. I am not familiar 
>> with if heartbeat is ported yet or not, but it might be worth a shot
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> Well. I have found out that it is possible with pf but I get dynamic ip
> address from adsl provider, I think pf needs to know the gateway ip for
> this to work. (I guess) I still look...

Does anyone have an example using pf for multihomed load
balancing or a howto that discusses it?

Thanks,

ed



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