Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 20:34:22 +0100 From: Max Laier <max@love2party.net> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>, Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu@flashnet.it> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Two ISP lines Message-ID: <200401192034.22796.max@love2party.net> In-Reply-To: <20040120014934.Q312-100000@prophet.alphaque.com> References: <20040120014934.Q312-100000@prophet.alphaque.com>
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On Monday 19 January 2004 18:50, Dinesh Nair wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > lines to the Internet: how would I use both? Could I just provide two > > default routes? How? What algorithm would be used to choose among the > > two? What if one failed? > > seems to be the topic of the week over at freebsd-questions. short end > of the stick is, freebsd as it is today does not do multipath routing, > so you cant add a default route to two gateways for round robin usage. > however, there was a multipath patch for 4-STABLE some months back, > though for the life of me, i don't know where it's archived anymore. > > check -questions archives for this thread. take a look at secuirty/pf (from ports) it can make use of more than one uplink. It provides round-robin and source-hash load balancing and you can define even finer policy routing with it. It works currently for 5.x only, for a 4.x version check KAME. -- Best regards, | max@love2party.net Max Laier | ICQ #67774661 http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/ | mlaier@EFnet
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