ADSL Lease Lines
Hello everybody I've been using FreeBSD servers to power my DMZ security zones for years; the security zones generally includes things like PF firewalls, SMTP servers, DNS and NAT gateways etc. From a security standpoint BSD is the BEST! Anyway, onto my question: OUTLINE Unfortunately one of my offices is located in a real nasty location as far as internet connectivity is concerned, up until now I've been using a standard ADSL connection but an upload of 512Kbs is now a huge problem for my remote users. With this in mind (and budgetary issues) I have no option but to go for an E1 carrier (2048Kbit) Well, this fixes my real _slow_ upload but reduces my download by about 5Mbit. Initially I was planning on having the lease line purely for my servers and remote users and having all desktop users browse the net using an ADSL connection but this would give me two independent connections to manage. QUESTION Would it be possible to employ some FreeBSD wizardry to affectively bond the lease line with the ADSL connection? I know this can be done through Cisco routers but again budgetary issues are the limiting factor. Any help will be gratefully received. TIA Nikki ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADSL Lease Lines
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:08:24 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ADSL Lease Lines QUESTION Would it be possible to employ some FreeBSD wizardry to affectively bond the lease line with the ADSL connection? I know this can be done through Cisco routers but again budgetary issues are the limiting factor. Any help will be gratefully received. TIA Nikki take a look at pfSense.com. its based on FreeBSD and most users find it as reliable as an enterprise level router. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ADSL Lease Lines
Unfortunately one of my offices is located in a real nasty location as far as internet connectivity is concerned, up until now I've been using a standard ADSL connection but an upload of 512Kbs is now a huge problem for my remote users. With this in mind (and budgetary issues) I have no option but to go for an E1 carrier (2048Kbit) BTW E1 is 2000Kbit/s (=2048000bits/second) Well, this fixes my real _slow_ upload but reduces my download by about 5Mbit. Initially I was planning on having the lease line purely for my how do you download 5Mbit/s through 2Mbit/s E1? Would it be possible to employ some FreeBSD wizardry to affectively bond the lease line with the ADSL connection? I know this can be done you can't bond two different links with 2 different IP addresses. you can do bonding only if your provider can do (like to do) the same. but you can simply make somehow smart firewall rules with forward command. it's how it's called in ipfw (fwd IP number), no idea about pf. for example - make proxy server with squid, set tcp_outgoing_address to your ADSL's IP, and make firewall rules to forward all going from ADSL's IP through ADSL modem, while having default route through E1, and all other services on E1. that's exactly what i do for 300 people LAN - use expensive symmetric connections for everything except WWW browsing - which goes through ADSL ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]