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Date:      Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:20:37 -0400
From:      Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca>
To:        Curo Technology Support <Support@curotech.co.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Multihoming VPN endpoint
Message-ID:  <47E8EE15.4010209@ibctech.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1C8876BA570BD64D950471796ED9B40950747C@svex1.isalliance.internal>
References:  <1C8876BA570BD64D950471796ED9B40950747C@svex1.isalliance.internal>

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> I have a question regarding setting up a VPN on a multihomed WAN link,
> we are thinking about setting up a site with two load balanced ADSL
> links that includes a site to site VPN.

Will this multi-home setup be co-ordinated with a single ISP?

The problem with this setup is that most ISP's can not guarantee which 
LNS your ADSL will connect to, ingress traffic may not be load-balanced, 
or may not work at all.

> Does anyone have any experience in this kind of setup that could offer
> up any advice?

Yes, but we need a few questions answered first.

- one or more ISP's (are you looking for ISP redundancy)
- will this particular site be the VPN end point for the other sites 
(and do you have other ingress traffic to this site, ie web server, 
email server etc)
- is your ISP(s) co-operative when it comes to changing their network to 
suit it's clients
- does your ISP(s) support multi-link (aka bonded, aka bundled) ADSL links
- are you looking strictly for load-balancing, or do you want redundancy too

If you don't get too far here, you may want to migrate the thread over 
to -net.

Regards,

Steve



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