FreeBSD router two DSL connections

[Yance Kowara]

Ted,

Thanks for the advice.

A friend of mine has just acquired an Internet Cafe.
The previous owner connected the lan to 2 different
ADSL (two different ISPs) one is a back up he said.

So, two ADSL routers with half the Lan connected to
one router and another half to the other router.

I am just thingking of a way to optimise the
connection and came accross Steven's article. I
thought I could do something similar with *BSD + pf.

There is such thing as Dual Wan ADSL router:
http://www.infosmart.com.tw/p-ndr3024.htm

However, they are quite pricey compare to setting up a
*BSD box (using old readily available hardware).


So, if this load balancing idea does not work, any
other thing I can do to optimise two DSLs?

I also came accross this (linux way):
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Adv-Routing-HOWTO/lartc.rpdb.multiple-links.html

Is this worth trying?

Kind regards,


Yance Kowara

--- Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:

> 
> If both DSL lines go to the same ISP it is easy, run
> PPP on them and setup multilink PPP.  The ISP has to
> do so also.
> 
> If they are going to different ISP's then you cannot
> do it with any operating system or device save BGP -
> the idea is
> completely -stupid- to put it simply.  If you think
> different,
> then explain why and I'll shoot every networking
> scenario
> you present so full of holes you will think it's
> swiss cheese.
> And if you think your going to run BGP I'll shoot
> that full
> of holes also.
> 
> Note that Steven's scenario below is for 2 circuits
> that
> both start at a single entity, and both end at a
> single entity.
> 
> Ted
> 
> 
> >-----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Yance Kowara
> >Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 7:03 PM
> >To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> >Subject: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I am trying to figure out if *BSD can achieve this:
> >
> >I have two DSL connections to play with, and I
> would
> >like to configure a *BSD router that can combine
> the
> >two DSLs together.
> >
> >There is a howto at
>
>http://stevenfettig.com/mythoughts/archives/000173.php
> >
> >But it concerns OpenBSD and it was for a T1
> connection
> >using a dual T1 card. I would like to configure one
> on
> >2 DSLs connected to two individual NICs.
> >
> >Is this feasible at all, or should I just invest in
> a
> >dual Wan hardware?
> >
> >Kind regards,
> >
> >Yance
> >
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