From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 12 15:06:41 2005 Return-Path: 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 28FEF16A4D1 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:06:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB2A143D3F for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 15:06:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tomasq@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 12so877013nzp for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:06:40 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EDi3c3tDN6iNTb9jN/TWcfFAomolklSFQrCnfjFmUjfUOwUzDt25LBOuBiRNq/BPd/hYtNDLh+89QWUieRbsUDqkG0aMHc/PJ+YjVVP5AWwkTwan4rtB/MQjM+nKYEttHwHFOcVuAaNMQe91i+e50IIKnmksPGYg+pCqEAX6jqw= Received: by 10.36.146.15 with SMTP id t15mr658021nzd; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.2.19 with HTTP; Thu, 12 May 2005 08:06:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9e46c99e05051208065675387d@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:06:39 -0400 From: Tomas Quintero To: Greg Donald In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Tomas Quintero List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 15:06:41 -0000 > I have two ISP connections, a DSL line and a Cable Modem line. I want > to plug both connections into a FreeBSD box that has three nics in it, > one nic for each ISP connection and the last nic for my NAT. How can > I bind the connections together without any other sort of router? > I've used ipfw a bit over the past couple of years, and I've got a > basic NAT working for the other LAN PCs. I can't seem to find any > docs on how to proceed with two connections however. I've got two > connections for the sake of failover but it'd be nice to actually use > both of them instead of one or the other sitting idle all the time. > Would it be as simple as adding a static route from each connection to > the other? >=20 PF is wonderful for this. I manage a router with 3 DSL Circuits and have PF setup to round-robin between them. The configuration is fairly simple, and I can provide my pf.conf if you'd like for some clarification on how to go about doing it. --=20 -Tomas Quintero