From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 14:09:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 01BED16A422 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:09:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yance_kowara@yahoo.com) Received: from web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.200.100]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 721B443D5D for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:09:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from yance_kowara@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 54817 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Dec 2005 14:08:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=uxFuAJNc/qvVe7o9Su575uER57OOVRKDegFGTrIrYk88/CiUwrQ4tKKgXk3xhtIKjab3D9t8qoFwFtWmbGtVSiRMAZLQTgjgKkU2zrOz4/SB/UZmQiHNeP4vsYWYLsRy0w2b66NqQYLLGAjbfCNeJTmaAUKuRi3Cbo18Ns7A3ZM= ; Message-ID: <20051224140859.54815.qmail@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [144.133.206.241] by web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:08:59 PST Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:08:59 -0800 (PST) From: Yance Kowara To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051224002136.39760.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL 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: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 14:09:01 -0000 > Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is > more than one connection. While you can't > increase the throughput of a single connection, > you can increase the throughput of your network, > which is usually the point. "Throughput" in this > context is "capacity". Throughput is not only > what you can "get" on a download; its the sum > total of all of your activites. > > You "can" upload at 2Mb/s on one connection if > you balance your outbound traffic, but not > download, because while you can control where > outgoing packets are sent, you can't control > over which pipe incoming traffic arrives. > > Believe me, ted. It works. Its not "theory". Its > being done. For example a hosting ISP saturates > its pipes outgoing and has very little traffic > incoming. They can load balance in the outgoing > only direction and have all of their incoming > traffic on a single pipe and double the capacity > of their network. Since they never exceed the > incoming bandwidth of a single pipe there is no > need to balance it. > > DT > Ted and Daniel, I am still following this thread and am getting all confused here. Back to my original question: 2 ADSL uplinks - 2 different ISPs.... can they be merged? (Load balanced, load shared, whatever it is) OpenBSD's PF has something that looks promising: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing Is this what I am looking for? Kind regards, Yance Kowara __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/