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Date:      Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:33:13 -0500
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        Domain Administrator <domainadmin@3tec.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Multiple Internet connection with failover/load-balancing
Message-ID:  <3E79B509.1020702@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030320012527.B2609-100000@ns1.3tec.com>
References:  <20030320012527.B2609-100000@ns1.3tec.com>

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Domain Administrator wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> We've been offering commercial Internet failover/load-balancing products
> to our clients, but we occasionally receive requests by some clients
> to provide less costly solution.  While full redundancy for both
> inbound and outbound traffic will require BGP or OSPF, these clients
> simply wish to join multiple Internet connections (DSL, ISDN or T1) from
> different providers to gain failover capability should one of their
> links failed.  Without ISPs' support, this type of redundancy only applies
> to outbound traffic, but that will suffice the clients' requirements
> already.
> 
> I searched through the mailing lists and forums but found only very
> limited resources on how to accomplish such gateway/firewall setup using
> FreeBSD (or other BSD).  It seeems for this type of setup requires
> running of multiple NAT daemons.  Has anyone done something like this? or
> point me to any HOW-TOs?

No howtos, but if you install mpd (from ports) there's good documentation
on how to set up multilink connections.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com


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