From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 16:26:59 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C25106564A for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from NMackin@presstekeurope.com) Received: from mx0.presstekeurope.com (mx0.presstekeurope.com [213.208.98.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1F918FC20 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from NMackin@presstekeurope.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.presstekeurope.com [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.presstekeurope.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8ED85C03F for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:16:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from mx0.presstekeurope.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx0.presstekeurope.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ko6aNxUQRAG7 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:16:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from abdsa.presstekeurope.local (gw0.presstekeurope.com [213.208.98.51]) by mx0.presstekeurope.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 122725C6EE for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:16:48 +0100 (BST) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:08:24 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: ADSL & Lease Lines thread-index: AcjmlQKLretBKpbvS9WaunoIeFnISA== From: "Nicola Mackin" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: ADSL & Lease Lines X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:26:59 -0000 Hello everybody =20 I've been using FreeBSD servers to power my DMZ security zones for years; the security zones generally includes things like PF firewalls, SMTP servers, DNS and NAT gateways etc. From a security standpoint BSD is the BEST! =20 Anyway, onto my question:=20 =20 OUTLINE =20 Unfortunately one of my offices is located in a real nasty location as far as internet connectivity is concerned, up until now I've been using a standard ADSL connection but an upload of 512Kbs is now a huge problem for my remote users. With this in mind (and budgetary issues) I have no option but to go for an E1 carrier (2048Kbit) =20 Well, this fixes my real _slow_ upload but reduces my download by about 5Mbit. Initially I was planning on having the lease line purely for my servers and remote users and having all desktop users browse the net using an ADSL connection but this would give me two independent connections to manage. =20 QUESTION =20 Would it be possible to employ some FreeBSD wizardry to affectively bond the lease line with the ADSL connection? I know this can be done through Cisco routers but again budgetary issues are the limiting factor.=20 =20 Any help will be gratefully received.=20 =20 TIA Nikki =20 =20 =20 =20