Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 21:47:18 -0700 From: "Eric Rosenberry" <ericr@dsl-only.net> To: "Jason Halbert" <jason@jason-n3xt.org>, <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Networking Question Message-ID: <GLEOKLAKEIBLAAKKFHEIIELBCEAA.ericr@dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <JEENJJEOICOIFPANEHOOCEKKCAAA.jason@jason-n3xt.org>
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What services do you run off this DSL line? Web? FTP? Do you have lots of
little connections or just large file transfers? Are the services you are
providing hosted off this BSD box or off something on the Internal network?
How many IP's does your ISP give you? Are the transfers primarily inbound
or outbound?
The reason I ask these questions is to try and figure out what the best
solution for you would be. Under the assumption that these are web
connections and that there are a lot of small ones, you could setup
something as simple as a round robin DNS which would send roughly half the
request to each interface. Realize that if you do that though and one of
the DSL lines goes down, then randomly half the people that are trying to
connect cannot.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Jason Halbert
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:50 AM
To: questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Networking Question
Hi all:
I was thinking about trying something out and I wanted to see if
anyone had any pointers or if they knew if it was even possible.
I have a web server that is on DSL. It's becoming fairly loaded and
uses bandwidth. I was wondering would it be possible to make a
gateway in the following configuration:
---------------------
DSL-0-----|xl0 |
| |
| Gateway Box |
| | -------
DSL-1-----|xl1 xl2|-----| Hub |----->
--------------------- -------
I was wondering if that BSD could perform some kind of load balancing
on the two DSL connections. Or if there is some other way of
combining two DSL services. I would go to a T-line if I had the
money. But I thought I would see if this or some other arrangement is
possible. I have already contacted the phone company and my ISP and
neither support this kind of thing, but do not see a problem with me
trying.
Any ideas?
----
Jason P. Halbert
jason@jason-n3xt.org
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