From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 20 21:39:33 2005 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 A8D4116A41F for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:39:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59F1F43D48 for ; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:39:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 18553 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2005 21:39:32 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jul 2005 21:39:32 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B7E8838; Wed, 20 Jul 2005 17:39:31 -0400 (EDT) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Sushubh To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <44sly9iomp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <9da658d50507201135252d7d70@mail.gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 20 Jul 2005 17:39:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <9da658d50507201135252d7d70@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <44wtnlyx64.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 34 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: bridging X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:39:33 -0000 Don't top-post, please. > On 20 Jul 2005 09:38:22 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < > freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > > > Sushubh writes: > > > > > I am going to install FreeBSD on a machine we plan to make a server. > > > > > > Now, we have 2 lines of internet coming to our place through 2 > > > separate lan modems. I want the server to take these 2 lines and > > > combine the speeds to form a single line which can be used by our lan > > > to access the internet. > > > > > > I have got 3 lan cards on the linux machine. 2 for the incoming > > > connections from the 2 lan modems which have the gateways 192.168.1.1 > > > and 192.168.1.100 . > > > > > > How do I go ahead with making my server a gateway offering combined > > > bandwidth to our lan? > > > > I'm not sure I understand your message, but: > > How do you do it with the Linux machine? Sushubh writes: > their is a bridge software in linux which can do that... > http://bridge.sourceforge.net That doesn't do what you described. That's just regular bridging, to connect two links into a single subnet. FreeBSD can do that quite well (there's a whole chapter titled "bridging" in the FreeBSD Handbook), but it doesn't have anything to do with load balancing across the two links, which is what you said you were after.