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Date:      Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:41:36 -0700
From:      Ben Jencks <ben@bjencks.net>
To:        John Barbieri <tenpin784@metrocast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <86ackoe78v.fsf@wagner.bjencks.net>
In-Reply-To: <42D53321.3000409@metrocast.net> (John Barbieri's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:28:33 -0400")
References:  <42D53321.3000409@metrocast.net>

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John Barbieri <tenpin784@metrocast.net> writes:

> Howdy,
>
>
> To start off, I have a FreeBSD router running Nat and dhcp, it is
> currently the router for my LAN.
>
> I was wondering if there was a way to aggregate more then one internet
> connection using FreeBSD?
>
>
> That is, have 2 or 3 internet connections coming in on seperate NICs,
> and being able to have the box route and nat the packets accordingly to
> the lan, thus giving the experience of more bandwidth. Is it even possible?

FreeBSD includes PF, which supports this.
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html

You need to NAT to an address pool, with round-robin.
- -- 
Ben
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