From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 20 4:35:28 2003 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 E7B3137B401 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 04:35:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (pa-plum1b-122.pit.adelphia.net [24.53.161.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09C7A43F93 for ; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 04:35:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com (working [172.16.0.95]) by pa-plum1b-166.pit.adelphia.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2KCYdJP000652; Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:34:51 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Message-ID: <3E79B509.1020702@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 07:33:13 -0500 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030301 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Domain Administrator Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Multiple Internet connection with failover/load-balancing References: <20030320012527.B2609-100000@ns1.3tec.com> In-Reply-To: <20030320012527.B2609-100000@ns1.3tec.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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