Date: 20 Jul 2005 17:39:31 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bridging Message-ID: <44wtnlyx64.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <9da658d50507201135252d7d70@mail.gmail.com> References: <op.st6ohdfwq5ge23@minime> <44sly9iomp.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <9da658d50507201135252d7d70@mail.gmail.com>
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Don't top-post, please. > On 20 Jul 2005 09:38:22 -0400, Lowell Gilbert < > freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > > > > Sushubh <sushubh@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > I am going to install FreeBSD on a machine we plan to make a server. > > > > > > Now, we have 2 lines of internet coming to our place through 2 > > > separate lan modems. I want the server to take these 2 lines and > > > combine the speeds to form a single line which can be used by our lan > > > to access the internet. > > > > > > I have got 3 lan cards on the linux machine. 2 for the incoming > > > connections from the 2 lan modems which have the gateways 192.168.1.1<http://192.168.1.1>; > > > and 192.168.1.100 <http://192.168.1.100>. > > > > > > How do I go ahead with making my server a gateway offering combined > > > bandwidth to our lan? > > > > I'm not sure I understand your message, but: > > How do you do it with the Linux machine? Sushubh <sushubh@gmail.com> writes: > their is a bridge software in linux which can do that... > http://bridge.sourceforge.net That doesn't do what you described. That's just regular bridging, to connect two links into a single subnet. FreeBSD can do that quite well (there's a whole chapter titled "bridging" in the FreeBSD Handbook), but it doesn't have anything to do with load balancing across the two links, which is what you said you were after.
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