From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 24 15:39:05 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 C869E16A41F for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:39:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC23B43D55 for ; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:39:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 27767 invoked by uid 60001); 24 Dec 2005 15:39:04 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=FMsMZk1+LMcV/qqGTOmvEXMW3hfslUbyhxG75XVh+Tzz7Y5PjoZV9uKOjcWXsKLumm67AkSz/vKA3mqEsSPhHQlym4DLyDxO8BdFyu1H1d/+7rA2r74dImmDSsYzmC6CNvb7UW7NNIrbMeSDRj1tfg9bRrHWym8siR1t4VbCfuU= ; Message-ID: <20051224153904.27765.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.46.186.215] by web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:39:04 PST Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:39:04 -0800 (PST) From: Danial Thom To: Yance Kowara , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051224140859.54815.qmail@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 15:39:05 -0000 --- Yance Kowara wrote: > > 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 "merged" is not the correct word. You cannot change how your traffic comes in (ie from which ISP it arrives). You can use various techniques (source routing, static routing tables, load balancing) to increase your outgoing capacity. What you should be discussing is how you can use each of these techniques within a FreeBSd environment. Unfortunately we have to teach Ted how routing works in the meantime, which muddles the issue. DT __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/