Just make sure you have realistic expectations about what you'll be able to accomplish. If your goal is to somehow combine two connections to increase the speed of, say, a single download stream--you will not be able to do that. Using policy-based routing, you WOULD be able to do things like have certain traffic only use or preferentially use a given connection, or have a basic failover based on interface status, packet loss, latency, etc.
Yes, it is possible to have *different* requests spread across your connections, and there are some mechanisms that will use multiple streams for a single download automatically, such as bittorrent, NNTP, some HTTP downloads. For these scenarios, it *would* be possible to accelerate those using both connections, but be mindful that the added complexity is going to make troubleshooting any sort of connectivity or throughput issue more complicated. I have two connections and use pfSense. I have routing groups set up such that traffic will automatically use the other connection should one fail, and I have some traffic preferentially (or only) use a specific connection. For example, my guest wireless network does not use my "main" fiber connection unless it's down. I don't run any groups with equal weight / tier values, or what some would call "load balancing" - and wouldn't recommend it unless you're trying to solve a very specific sort of problem. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware <hardware-boun...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> On Behalf Of Al A Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 5:33 PM To: Hardware Group <hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com> Subject: Re: [H] load balance switch? Hoping to use the onboard NIC and two cards. https://soggi.org/motherboards/msi-oem/MS-7336-VER-1.0.htm Al On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:07 PM Z Vaper <z00...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I think for your use case you may need 3 nics. > > Wan0 wan1 and lan0. > > Lan0 being your local network. > > You can do trickery such as assigning one lab port to two wants with tagging > trunking and vlans bit that’s too much work for a home setup. > > Zulfiqar Naushad > On Jun 18, 2020, 3:03 PM -0400, Al A <eight.bit...@gmail.com>, wrote: > > https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-configure-dual-wan-load-balance- > > failover-pfsense-router/ > > So I just need one more NIC. > > > > Thanks again, just what I needed. > > Al > > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 6:17 PM Al A <eight.bit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I do have a Core 2 Duo 4GiB and an extra NIC to put in it. That's > > > a good idea. > > > > > > Thanks fellas, for your replies. > > > A
