From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 10:30: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5676A37B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:30:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from skywalker.rogness.net (skywalker.rogness.net [64.251.173.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99A1243E3B for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 10:29:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from skywalker.rogness.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skywalker.rogness.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9MHXK0H031887; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:33:20 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nick@rogness.net) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by skywalker.rogness.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g9MHXJCj031884; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:33:20 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: skywalker.rogness.net: nick owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:33:15 -0600 (MDT) From: Nick Rogness To: Fernando Gleiser Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low Balancing In-Reply-To: <20021022133924.T11230-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar> Message-ID: <20021022112955.F31805-100000@skywalker.rogness.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Fernando Gleiser wrote: > On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Oliveira Ramiro wrote: > > > Tengo un Server BSD con 2 diferentes conexiones a internet, mediante 2 > > placas de red, con 2 proveedores diferentes. La pregunta es: > > Cual creen es la mejor solucion (o al menos la mas estable y razonable) para > > que mi trafico quede balanceado? > > > > I have a BSD server with two NICs. Each NIC is connected to the Internet > via different ISPs. The question is: What's the best (or the most stable) > solution for traffic balancing between the two links? > > The only proper way to do this is with a routing daemon like gated or zebra. This requires peering arrangements with your upstream ISPs. There are other alternatives, all of which are rather difficult to implement. Nick Rogness - "Wouldn't it be great if we could answer people with a kick to the crotch?" -maddox@xmission.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message