From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Dec 7 10:23:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cody.jharris.com (cody.jharris.com [205.238.128.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C63837B425 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 10:23:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by cody.jharris.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id fB7IN9f05250; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:23:09 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:23:09 -0600 (CST) From: Nick Rogness X-Sender: nick@cody.jharris.com To: Lars Eggert Cc: Steve Ames , Anders Hagman , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Nat through two DSL In-Reply-To: <3C110822.5020302@isi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, Lars Eggert wrote: > Nick Rogness wrote: > > > Load sharing is not possible on a per packet basis when running > > NAT on the outside interfaces. The source address for each packet > > will be different. > > > What prevents you from picking one source address for packets going > out both interfaces? Your return packets won't be striped then of > course. (Which could make this scheme ineffective, assuming "client" > machines receive much more than they send.) Well, you can. But the upstream provider has to be allowing you to route the other ADSL's IP through their network....probably not going to happen...unless you have some sort of BGP arrangement with them. If you have BGP arrangements with them this would be a moot point. Nick Rogness - Keep on Routing in a Free World... "FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message