Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:15:40 -0500 From: CyberLeo Kitsana <cyberleo@cyberleo.net> To: Federico Lorenzi <florenzi@gmail.com> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Two interfaces, two IPs, nearly twice the speed? Message-ID: <46B16893.3080800@cyberleo.net> In-Reply-To: <3a386af20708010826x68966aas18ebe2006d5f5f17@mail.gmail.com> References: <3a386af20708010826x68966aas18ebe2006d5f5f17@mail.gmail.com>
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Federico Lorenzi wrote: > Hi list > > BACKGROUND: > I have two ppp interfaces tun0 and tun1 configured. Each of them > has an IP address in the same range, like 10.0.0.1 for the first and > 10.0.0.2 for the second (They are really dynamic public IPs...). Now, > what I would like to do is get it so that they get mixed together. > > QUESTION: > Is it possible to get PF to somehow round-robin the connections? > Lets say Joe connects to the internet and starts downloading a file, > it will use up Connection 1. Now Peter connects, PF knows that > connection 1 is used, and makes Peter's request go through > Connection 2. Kinda like a Dual-Internet? I tried that once. It wasn't pretty. There are still rogue and unresolved memory leaks that cause this to fail under high load by exhausting mbufs. I documented my experiences here: http://wiki.cyberleo.net/index.php/MultiHomedRouter Hope this helps! -- Fuzzy love, -CyberLeo Technical Administrator CyberLeo.Net Webhosting http://www.CyberLeo.Net <CyberLeo@CyberLeo.Net> Furry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/
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