Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:35:42 +1100 (EST) From: andrew@ugh.net.au To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Big Expensive Link and Little Flat Rate Link - off topic Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971007201749.25664R-100000@depravitas.tuu.utas.edu.au>
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Hmm...could be the title of a fairy tale.... This isnt speciffically FreeBSD related but... I have a network connected to the outside world via a 128K ISDN and a 2MB link. The 2MB link is charged per MB, the ISDN at a flat rate for less than 40% utilisation. The ISDN and the 2MB links go to completely seperate providers. I have a squid parent at the end of the 2MB link. The question is how to make best use of the bandwidth? I want to use the ISDN as much as possible obviously but dont want too much lag. The 2MB link router dosnt support BGP...in fact dosnt support much at all. Most of our traffic is web so I thought I could do something with squid. I can get squid to balance between two parents but I would need it to balance between direct from source and a single parent (I could add a static route to the parent proxy to go via the 2MB link). Can I route say 70% of traffic one way, 30% traffic another way at a FreeBSD level? Am I approaching this completely the wrong way? Any better ideas? Sorry for the off topic post, Andrew
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