Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:38:14 -0400 From: "Tom Farrell" <info@mvcg.net> To: "Muhammad Reza" <reza@mra.co.id>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT Message-ID: <001d01c5631f$38415970$6801a8c0@neonduron> References: <4295A5C3.8070005@mra.co.id>
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Multihoming two wan links can be accomplisheed by using zebra or just ipfw and natd. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Muhammad Reza" <reza@mra.co.id> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT > At 11:06 AM 5/12/2005, you wrote: > > > > >> 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 setup something similar that may be useful.... We have a small > > office with a 12/24ths of a T-1 line for an absurd amount of money as > > our primary connection. Cheap residential cable service became > > available with quadruple the bandwidth [incoming only] for cheap. > > > > I installed an extra NIC the to cable modem and setup the Squid proxy > > / cache on a f'bsd box that was already running other services. Then > > used some Squid options and IPFW to get all Squid's traffic running > > over the cable line. This gets us faster web and ftp downloads, and > > off-loads the T-1 for other things. > > > > -Wayne > > _______________________________________________ > > > I have similar network configuration (dual home ISP without routing > protocol enabled), and looking for some solution with BSD robust TCP/IP > stack. > PF came with this solution; > http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html > but this solution is based on packet filtering anyway, not routing. You > no need to specified your default gateway and you will have problem if > you have Squid running on your gateway box or have NAT rule, that > translate your host public address into private LAN host address, and > (maybe) many more... > Meanwhile, my gateway box is Linux-2.4.x with iproute2, and can > accomplished this matter. > But i really want to change this into *BSD, i heard that guys from > OpenBSD work on this > (http://www.openbsd.org/plus36.html, Permit multiple default route), but > not worked in my test. > .. what about FreeBSD ? > > regards > .:NewBie:. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
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