From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 21 20:26:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org 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 9066A16A401; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:26:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFB6C43D45; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:26:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from localhost ([12.27.239.98]) (AUTH: LOGIN wmoran, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:26:15 -0400 id 00056416.44493FE7.00000DEF Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:26:31 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Michael Landin Hostbaek Message-Id: <20060421162631.cf649390.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20060421091936.GC45972@mich2.itxmarket.com> References: <20060421091936.GC45972@mich2.itxmarket.com> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.0 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Trunking connections X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 20:26:17 -0000 On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:36 +0200 Michael Landin Hostbaek wrote: > List, > > In a branch office, I've got two ADSL lines setup (with two different > ISPs) - one of them are supposed to work as backup line, but since it is > a ADSL flat fee line, I was wondering if there's a way of setting up > some sort of a trunk with FreeBSD, so I can make use of the extra > bandwith. > > Obviously, the line should be unaffected if one of the lines go down. > > I've got a FreeBSD firewall/gateway with three interfaces.. The canonical way to do this is with bgp. There are bgp implementations available for FreeBSD. The hard part will be getting the two ISPs to agree to set up BGP on their end. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com