At 11:06 AM 5/12/2005, you wrote:


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 setup something similar that may be useful.... We have a small office with a 12/24ths of a T-1 line for an absurd amount of money as our primary connection. Cheap residential cable service became available with quadruple the bandwidth [incoming only] for cheap.

I installed an extra NIC the to cable modem and setup the Squid proxy / cache on a f'bsd box that was already running other services. Then used some Squid options and IPFW to get all Squid's traffic running over the cable line. This gets us faster web and ftp downloads, and off-loads the T-1 for other things.

-Wayne
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I have similar network configuration (dual home ISP without routing protocol enabled), and looking for some solution with BSD robust TCP/IP stack.
PF came with this solution;
http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html
but this solution is based on packet filtering anyway, not routing. You no need to specified your default gateway and you will have problem if you have Squid running on your gateway box or have NAT rule, that translate your host public address into private LAN host address, and (maybe) many more... Meanwhile, my gateway box is Linux-2.4.x with iproute2, and can accomplished this matter. But i really want to change this into *BSD, i heard that guys from OpenBSD work on this (http://www.openbsd.org/plus36.html, Permit multiple default route), but not worked in my test.
.. what about FreeBSD ?

regards
.:NewBie:.

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