From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 15: 3:56 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 AFBC137B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:03:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gbronline.com (mail.gbronline.com [12.145.226.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D1A43E6A for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daleco@daleco.biz) Received: from DaleCoportable [12.145.226.227] by mail.gbronline.com (SMTPD32-7.13) id AAD2A50027E; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 17:01:54 -0500 Message-ID: <052101c27a16$16e809d0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> From: "DaleCo, S.P.---'the solutions people'" To: "Nick Rogness" , "Fernando Gleiser" Cc: References: <20021022112955.F31805-100000@skywalker.rogness.net> Subject: Re: Low Balancing Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 16:57:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 From: "Nick Rogness" To: "Fernando Gleiser" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2002 12:33 PM Subject: Re: Low Balancing > 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 Hope you didn't mean me ;-) Normally I'd run a message like this through babelfish, but didn't feel I had time. I obviously paid more attention to "balancing traffic" than to the situation analysis that preceded it. Thanks Nick for giving a great answer.... KDK To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message