2 adsl connections load balancing with natd/ipfw

[Eric Anderson]

Emre Bastuz wrote:
[..snip..]

>So far I did not find any tutorial or howto or whatever to achieve my goal with
>FreeBSD. I assume right now there is no satisfying way to use your two lines
>with BSD except with dedicated hardware.
>  
>

Isn't it possible to use ipnat on a FreeBSD box, and use the load 
distribution/reverse nat stuff in it to spread the requests out between 
the two connections?  It's not perfect, but it's something. 

Basically, I think you'd set up a FreeBSD box as 'the router', so 
clients would point to it's interface for their gateway (or however you 
want to set it up), then the FreeBSD box would distribute requests 
between the two 'real' router IP's.  I'm not certain this will work, but 
just a thought..

Eric


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