Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 06:08:59 -0800 (PST) From: Yance Kowara <yance_kowara@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD router two DSL connections Message-ID: <20051224140859.54815.qmail@web30307.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051224002136.39760.qmail@web33315.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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> Ted, you have to think outside the box. Life is > more than one connection. While you can't > increase the throughput of a single connection, > you can increase the throughput of your network, > which is usually the point. "Throughput" in this > context is "capacity". Throughput is not only > what you can "get" on a download; its the sum > total of all of your activites. > > You "can" upload at 2Mb/s on one connection if > you balance your outbound traffic, but not > download, because while you can control where > outgoing packets are sent, you can't control > over which pipe incoming traffic arrives. > > Believe me, ted. It works. Its not "theory". Its > being done. For example a hosting ISP saturates > its pipes outgoing and has very little traffic > incoming. They can load balance in the outgoing > only direction and have all of their incoming > traffic on a single pipe and double the capacity > of their network. Since they never exceed the > incoming bandwidth of a single pipe there is no > need to balance it. > > DT > Ted and Daniel, I am still following this thread and am getting all confused here. Back to my original question: 2 ADSL uplinks - 2 different ISPs.... can they be merged? (Load balanced, load shared, whatever it is) OpenBSD's PF has something that looks promising: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing Is this what I am looking for? Kind regards, Yance Kowara __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/
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