From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 25 2:21:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net (adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net [63.194.112.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0195F37BD22 for ; Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:21:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bsd@info-logix.com) Received: (qmail 6194 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2000 09:22:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ibix) (192.168.1.3) by adsl-63-194-112-53.dsl.snlo01.pacbell.net with SMTP; 25 Jul 2000 09:22:46 -0000 From: "Hank Wethington" To: "BSD" Subject: Multi homed, 2 internet 1 Lan Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 02:20:27 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I am getting ready to add cable to my network at work. I currently use DSL, but for redundancy and load balancing I'd like to add a second internet connection. I currently use FreeBSD 3.4-RELEASE with 2 NICS in it: ed0 for DSL, ed2 for LAN. The DSL is static IP To add Cable I imagine I need to add a third card and compile it into the kernel (no big deal, this part I understand), but: 1) how do I add it for bandwidth use? 2) How do I load balance between the 2? 3) Is it possible to have BSD look at both connections to see which one will provide faster access? 4) How do I make my mailserver just use the DSL and not look at the cable. 5) Can BSD automatically change to the other connection if one is down or must I make the change myself? This is all very confusing to me. I have researched the mailing list and handbook, but I can find no references on how to set it up. Any help would be appreciated. Hank To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message