From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 21:24:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEB9616A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:24:28 +0000 (GMT) Received: from a.mx.interacesso.pt (super11.nortenet.pt [212.13.35.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 323EA43D49 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:24:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from elton.machado@norteglobal.com) Received: (qmail 15990 invoked by uid 104); 15 Dec 2004 21:22:34 -0000 Received: from elton.machado@norteglobal.com by mx0.interacesso.pt by uid 101 with qmail-scanner-1.22st Clear:RC:1(212.13.50.166):. Processed in 0.206494 secs); 15 Dec 2004 21:22:34 -0000 Received: from 50-166.dial.nortenet.pt (HELO ?192.168.123.1?) (212.13.50.166) by a.mx.interacesso.pt with SMTP; 15 Dec 2004 21:22:34 -0000 Message-ID: <41C0AB8E.6040805@norteglobal.com> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:24:30 +0000 From: Elton Machado User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <4f9c6b6d04120611206e86dcdc@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4f9c6b6d04120611206e86dcdc@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Load Balancing X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 21:24:29 -0000 NiY wrote: >Greetings! I have yet to find a definitive answer on this subject, so >I was hoping someone would let me know the official way to go about >this, or if it's even possible. > >We have two ADSL services coming into out building. We would like to >use them both on one network, using a multi-homed FreeBSD box, if >possible. So the scenario would like this. > > >ADSL1----\ / -- Host > Freebsd Load Balancer / NATD ---- Switch -- Host >ADSL2----/ \ --Host > >Can it be done? > > > I have the same problem, in my case i have this scenario ADSL (Cisco 837) ------ | ------ OpenBSD Gateway or FreeBSD -- Switchs -- LAN CABLE (USR) ------- Problem is... I'm using diferent providers in eachlink, I would like to to jump from one connection to another when one fails, in best case, I would like to share traffic between then and in case of one fail all the traffic goes by only one of then. How can you get this thing woring fine? and does it is possible? ;) Tia. Elton