From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Oct 10 10:28:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from ple.org (c431822-a.smateo1.sfba.home.com [24.7.95.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C533154AA for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andy@ple.org) Received: from k1825dsf (k1825dsf [10.2.4.235]) by ple.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA38494 for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:27:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <004901bf1344$18282050$eb04020a@nt.schwab.com> From: "Andreas Pleschutznig" To: Subject: Load balancing between multiple lines? Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 10:22:56 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0046_01BF1309.6B8C1840" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0046_01BF1309.6B8C1840 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm in the process of getting multiple DSL lines (4-8) and what I want = to do is set up a FreeBSD box as a router handling all these lines. The = problem now is that all the lines go to the same ISP, and will have all = the same netmask. In addition to that I would like to share the traffic = on these lines, at least on a round robbin basis.=20 I could think of changing the routing code in the kernel, if there is no = other possibilities, but I would rather not go that route if I don't = have to. So my question is: Does anybody know of any solution that = handles 4-8 lines and does a load sharing between them, without buying a = $30k router? Andreas ------=_NextPart_000_0046_01BF1309.6B8C1840 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

I'm in the process of getting multiple DSL lines (4-8) and what I = want to=20 do is set up a FreeBSD box as a router handling all these lines. The = problem now=20 is that all the lines go to the same ISP, and will have all the same = netmask. In=20 addition to that I would like to share the traffic on these lines, at = least on a=20 round robbin basis.

I could think of changing the routing code in the kernel, if there = is no=20 other possibilities, but I would rather not go that route if I don't = have to. So=20 my question is: Does anybody know of any solution that handles 4-8 lines = and=20 does a load sharing between them, without buying a $30k router?

Andreas

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