Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 11:06:39 -0400 From: Tomas Quintero <tomasq@gmail.com> To: Greg Donald <destiney@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two ISP connections, three nics, and a NAT Message-ID: <9e46c99e05051208065675387d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ea9da26c0505120721571bc135@mail.gmail.com> References: <ea9da26c0505120721571bc135@mail.gmail.com>
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> I have two ISP connections, a DSL line and a Cable Modem line. I want > to plug both connections into a FreeBSD box that has three nics in it, > one nic for each ISP connection and the last nic for my NAT. How can > I bind the connections together without any other sort of router? > I've used ipfw a bit over the past couple of years, and I've got a > basic NAT working for the other LAN PCs. I can't seem to find any > docs on how to proceed with two connections however. I've got two > connections for the sake of failover but it'd be nice to actually use > both of them instead of one or the other sitting idle all the time. > Would it be as simple as adding a static route from each connection to > the other? >=20 PF is wonderful for this. I manage a router with 3 DSL Circuits and have PF setup to round-robin between them. The configuration is fairly simple, and I can provide my pf.conf if you'd like for some clarification on how to go about doing it. --=20 -Tomas Quintero
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