If an old PC is available then do try considering Endian Firewall Community Edition. I have been using it for quite sometime in my office. Works great as well as unattended and most features are supported out of the box. a few cyber cafes in my areas have started using it as well and they are pretty much satisfied with it and its web interface makes it easy for the dumb as well. And yes it does support load balancing as well.
Regarding HW based thing I guess u may try a hand at Linksys WiFi Router upgrade their firmware with a linux firmware like DD-WRT and have fun, but I guess for load balancing you may require two such routers. http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/ http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391 http://www.wrtrouters.com/guides/upgradetolinux/ You may read about a few other such distros at http://ezinearticles.com/?WRT54g-Linux-Firmware-Distributions&id=118837 Regards Dhiraj Gaur On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 26 May 2008, Karanbir Singh wrote: > > [snip] > > I've seen a couple of SMC barracuda ADSL routers that will handle > > dual links and do some failover stuff. I'd guess you already had > > modems for those links ? > > That helps. Finally found the following 4 that seem to fit the bill, no > clue about availability in India: > > http://d-link.ca/products/?pid=452&sec=2 (around $130) > > > http://www.zyxel.com/web/product_family_detail.php?PC1indexflag=20040908175941&CategoryGroupNo=53C4D3B9-98B3-4F1F-A7B2-BED2BBA2A7CA > (~450 UKP) > > http://www.xrio.com/website/ (~UKP 550) > > > http://www.smc-asia.com/v2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=458&Itemid=60 > (~ $450) > > Also considering setting up a USB stick which would do all this and have > a web front-end for management of links, IP addresses, load balancing > configuration, etc. Is such a thing available? > > Regards, > > -- Raju > -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
