Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD

Ben Jencks ben at bjencks.net
Fri Jul 15 09:41:43 GMT 2005


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John Barbieri <tenpin784 at metrocast.net> writes:

> Howdy,
>
>
> To start off, I have a FreeBSD router running Nat and dhcp, it is
> currently the router for my LAN.
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to aggregate more then one internet
> connection using FreeBSD?
>
>
> That is, have 2 or 3 internet connections coming in on seperate NICs,
> and being able to have the box route and nat the packets accordingly to
> the lan, thus giving the experience of more bandwidth. Is it even possible?

FreeBSD includes PF, which supports this.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html

You need to NAT to an address pool, with round-robin.
- -- 
Ben
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