From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 6 21:50:24 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bobo.nws.orst.edu (bobo.nws.orst.edu [128.193.4.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB5C37B408 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:50:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ericr@dsl-only.net) Received: from ericrmobl (rosenbee-2.RCN.ORST.EDU [128.193.238.247]) by bobo.nws.orst.edu (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA05696; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:50:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric Rosenberry" To: "Jason Halbert" , Subject: RE: Networking Question Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:47:18 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 In-Reply-To: Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What services do you run off this DSL line? Web? FTP? Do you have lots of little connections or just large file transfers? Are the services you are providing hosted off this BSD box or off something on the Internal network? How many IP's does your ISP give you? Are the transfers primarily inbound or outbound? The reason I ask these questions is to try and figure out what the best solution for you would be. Under the assumption that these are web connections and that there are a lot of small ones, you could setup something as simple as a round robin DNS which would send roughly half the request to each interface. Realize that if you do that though and one of the DSL lines goes down, then randomly half the people that are trying to connect cannot. -Eric -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Halbert Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:50 AM To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Networking Question Hi all: I was thinking about trying something out and I wanted to see if anyone had any pointers or if they knew if it was even possible. I have a web server that is on DSL. It's becoming fairly loaded and uses bandwidth. I was wondering would it be possible to make a gateway in the following configuration: --------------------- DSL-0-----|xl0 | | | | Gateway Box | | | ------- DSL-1-----|xl1 xl2|-----| Hub |-----> --------------------- ------- I was wondering if that BSD could perform some kind of load balancing on the two DSL connections. Or if there is some other way of combining two DSL services. I would go to a T-line if I had the money. But I thought I would see if this or some other arrangement is possible. I have already contacted the phone company and my ISP and neither support this kind of thing, but do not see a problem with me trying. Any ideas? ---- Jason P. Halbert jason@jason-n3xt.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message