From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Oct 9 21:42:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA10570 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:42:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mailhost.clipper.net (mailhost.clipper.net [207.109.253.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA10481 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:42:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@clipper.net) Received: from localhost (tim@localhost) by mailhost.clipper.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA05961; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:41:09 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:41:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Tim Wolfe To: Dennis cc: Karl Pielorz , Bill Fumerola , "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IP Load balancing In-Reply-To: <199810090920.JAA05532@etinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dennis wrote: > I may be out of context on this thread, but you could easily controll traffic > OUT with load-balanced serial lines on a freebsd box...IN is another banana. > > INET#1 INET#2 > . . > . . > . . > Router > . > . > Your net > > DB Or you could use FreeBSD2.2.6+ and use the mpath patch to allow ECMP routing and run Gated with OSPF to your upstream (assuming both serial lines terminate to the same upstream) and have auto failover AND load balancing.. Tim ---------------------------------------------------- Timothy M. Wolfe | Why surf when you can Sail? tim@clipper.net | Join Oregon's Premier Sr. Network Engineer | Wireless Internet Provider! ClipperNet Corporation | http://www.clipper.net/ ---------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message