Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:05:39 -0500 From: "Chris Cook" <ccook@arkansasdoc.com> To: "'Eric Anderson'" <anderson@centtech.com>, "'Emre Bastuz'" <info@emre.de> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 2 adsl connections load balancing with natd/ipfw Message-ID: <35E250E480C0C840A47E3473C0F870011EF2@stpeter.roma.local> In-Reply-To: <40B49584.6090609@centtech.com>
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Yes, but you will not be able to load balance incoming connections, only outbound requests, and the packets would not be evenly distributed as in a true load balancing scenario. -- Chris Cook CompuDoc of Arkansas http://www.arkansasdoc.com 501-697-1712 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Eric Anderson Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 8:03 AM To: Emre Bastuz Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2 adsl connections load balancing with natd/ipfw Emre Bastuz wrote: [..snip..] >So far I did not find any tutorial or howto or whatever to achieve my goal with >FreeBSD. I assume right now there is no satisfying way to use your two lines >with BSD except with dedicated hardware. > > Isn't it possible to use ipnat on a FreeBSD box, and use the load distribution/reverse nat stuff in it to spread the requests out between the two connections? It's not perfect, but it's something. Basically, I think you'd set up a FreeBSD box as 'the router', so clients would point to it's interface for their gateway (or however you want to set it up), then the FreeBSD box would distribute requests between the two 'real' router IP's. I'm not certain this will work, but just a thought.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. ------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-isp@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-isp To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-isp-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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