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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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