FreeBSD router two DSL connections

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Yance Kowara
>Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2005 6:09 AM
>To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections
>
>
>> Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is
>> more than one connection. While you can't
>> increase the throughput of a single connection,
>> you can increase the throughput of your network,
>> which is usually the point. "Throughput" in this
>> context is "capacity". Throughput is not only
>> what you can "get" on a download; its the sum
>> total of all of your activites.
>> 
>> You "can" upload at 2Mb/s on one connection if
>> you balance your outbound traffic, but not
>> download, because while you can control where
>> outgoing packets are sent,  you can't control
>> over which pipe incoming traffic arrives.
>> 
>> Believe me, ted. It works. Its not "theory". Its
>> being done. For example a hosting ISP saturates
>> its pipes outgoing and has very little traffic
>> incoming. They can load balance in the outgoing
>> only direction and have all of their incoming
>> traffic on a single pipe and double the capacity
>> of their network. Since they never exceed the
>> incoming bandwidth of a single pipe there is no
>> need to balance it.
>> 
>> DT
>> 
>
>Ted and Daniel,
>
>I am still following this thread and am getting all
>confused here. 
>
>Back to my original question: 2 ADSL uplinks - 2
>different ISPs.... can they be merged? (Load balanced,
>load shared, whatever it is)
>

No, as I already said, they can not.

>OpenBSD's PF has something that looks promising:
>http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing
>Is this what I am looking for?
>

Yance, I said no once, I'll say no again, you still don't
believe me, please go set the thing up and see for yourself.

As I said, set it up, plug one DSL line in, download the
FreeBSD ISO, time it, plug the second DSL line in, download
the FreeBSD ISO again, and measure the time it takes, there
will be no difference.

Then when your finished doing that, repeast the test but this
time try uploading the ISO file to some remote server, with
one line connected, then with both lines connected, and
once again, you will see no difference.

By that definition, no they are not merged/Load balanced/
load shared.  If you have something else in mind, then
load balancing, then maybe the software will do something that
you want.

But it will not load balance 2 lines to different ISP's.

Ted