From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 12:19:37 2004 Return-Path: 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 5B9CF16A4CE for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:19:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.mail.ru (mx2.mail.ru [194.67.23.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F053D43D58 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:19:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from infofarmer@mail.ru) Received: from [83.237.13.16] (port=3022 helo=[172.17.0.69]) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1CfdYd-000AmP-00; Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:19:35 +0300 Message-ID: <41C42058.3020303@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 15:19:36 +0300 From: "Andrew P." User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hexren References: <1356832694.20041217153250@hexren.net> In-Reply-To: <1356832694.20041217153250@hexren.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: Not detected cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: combining 2 ADSL Lines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: infofarmer@mail.ru List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2004 12:19:37 -0000 Hexren wrote: > I have the following problem, I have 2 ADSl Lines and would like to > combine those 2 into 1 big. I have full control of both the gateway > from my LAN and another Server in the internet which I coud use as a > second gateway. > > What I am thinking of is something like virtualizing so that in the > end I have VirtualInterface1 which is DSL1 and DSL2. > > p.s. Multilink PPP is unfortunately not an option as the lines are > rented from different providers (I think that is prohibiting multilink > isn't it ?) :( > Sure you can combine two lines for bandwidth boost and redundancy. Ports/net/mpd is probably the best choice considering you have FreeBSD installed on both gateways. Get familiar with this port, its configuration is not so difficult. You could even encrypt and/or compress both links to gain even more speed and security (if the external server is on a fast, secure line and has a fast CPU). You should probably sign up with mpd-users mailing list at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd. Good luck! Best wishes, Andrew P.