From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 5 4: 3: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from rr.nlock.com (mrpete.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.37.247]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00AAC37B422 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 04:02:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nlock.com (gw.nlock.30.41.203.IN-ADDR.ARPA [203.41.30.33] (may be forged)) by rr.nlock.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA30881; Tue, 5 Sep 2000 22:03:20 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <39B4D2CF.E344307@nlock.com> Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:02:40 +1100 From: Peter Fackrell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ryder_a@chasma.net Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question about Dual NICs References: <39B531EA.1F286B82@chasma.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Andrew Ryder wrote: > If I have two T1s from independent providers with two different blocks > of IPS, two 3c905-TX cards, two different IPs > > For redundancy reasons, what's the best way to go abouts this? > > Have each card run seperate IPs (one from each T1) what discerns between > the two so it knows which routes (besides routing tables) to use? > > Anyone have a similiar solution? I have never tried this but at Cisco this is called Load Balancing. To do this on a FreeBSD box have a look at http://www.zebra.org/ Free routing software. > > > We have two T1s - one for client bandwidth - one for servers > (dedicated) which I want to combine just in case everything goes down. > > How does DNS then go? Dual A records? > > Thanks. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message