From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 15 09:41:43 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 B6CC316A41C for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@bjencks.net) Received: from bjencks.net (sub20-225.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.20.225]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF5D043D48 for ; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:41:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@bjencks.net) Received: (qmail 79819 invoked from network); 15 Jul 2005 09:41:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO wagner.bjencks.net) (10.11.55.30) by bjencks.net with SMTP; 15 Jul 2005 09:41:41 -0000 Received: (from brj@localhost) by wagner.bjencks.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j6F9fesH039465; Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:41:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@bjencks.net) X-Authentication-Warning: wagner.bjencks.net: brj set sender to ben@bjencks.net using -f To: John Barbieri References: <42D53321.3000409@metrocast.net> From: Ben Jencks Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 02:41:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: <42D53321.3000409@metrocast.net> (John Barbieri's message of "Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:28:33 -0400") Message-ID: <86ackoe78v.fsf@wagner.bjencks.net> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using Multiple Internet Connections with FreeBSD 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: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 09:41:43 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 John Barbieri 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC14TUpt3yYclAKVsRArs/AKCT6FmcsD8Y61uEpWEUFZfTsPx0XgCdGG75 KyXDfTEOUdskYOTXLTMa7m0= =99tH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----