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Date:      Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:02:40 +1100
From:      Peter Fackrell <peter@nlock.com>
To:        ryder_a@chasma.net
Cc:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: question about Dual NICs
Message-ID:  <39B4D2CF.E344307@nlock.com>
References:  <39B531EA.1F286B82@chasma.net>

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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.
>
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