From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 5 22:25:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EAE116A412 for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:25:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from achilles.leela.ws (achilles.leela.ws [66.207.162.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8FA43D6D for ; Thu, 5 Oct 2006 22:25:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.0.193] ([158.145.111.132]) (authenticated bits=0) by achilles.leela.ws (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k95MPOGW028016 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:25:25 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from pgiessel@mac.com) Message-ID: <45258650.6060707@mac.com> Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 14:25:20 -0800 From: "Peter A. Giessel" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Macintosh/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Thiago Rocha References: <471361580610051459m7f7c7d3dwa982dddcb139b684@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <471361580610051459m7f7c7d3dwa982dddcb139b684@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 2 ADSL links X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:25:26 -0000 On 2006/10/05 13:59, Thiago Rocha seems to have typed: > hi! > > Brazilian I and do not say English, I forgive for any error! > > I have a FreeBSD Server (5.4). This server links ADSL has two, and I need to > balance the load between them, e also case one stops the other keeps the > connection. I don't believe that you will be able to load balance two connections without assistance from your ISP. You could "split" the traffic between two interfaces, but you can't truly "load balance". One of the many threads on this topic can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-isp/2004-June/002219.html