From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 18 7:52:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from rapidnet.com (rapidnet.com [205.164.216.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC72837B401 for ; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 07:52:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by rapidnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA74896; Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:52:17 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 08:52:16 -0700 (MST) From: Nick Rogness To: John Telford Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Multiple ISP's for outgoing. (or the opposite of P. Brezny's ?) In-Reply-To: <002101c0810b$62017560$f933e540@johnny2k> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, John Telford wrote: > Is there a way to do the opposite of Peter Brezny's question "Redundant > connections from separate isp's possible?" He had muliple incoming > connections to his Web servers. > I have 2 ISP's but almost all of my traffic is from the inside out, employee > browsing, ftp downloads. Can (should?) I use a Freebsd box to balance/route > the traffic through the 2 connections ? How difficult would it be to setup ? You SHOULD be able to perform this operation with routing via a routing daemon. Your problem is actually the same as what Peter's problem is...your just looking at it differently. Technical feasiblity will rely a lot on what your network looks like and what your providers are willing to do for you. Load balancing will be a tad more difficult than just redundant routing. These answers are all relative to how you are connected and what your network looks like. Most likely, BGP will be your answer. Best of luck. Nick Rogness - Drive defensively. Buy a tank. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message