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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:46:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck Rouillard <chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com>
To: Jason Halbert <jason@jason-n3xt.org>
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Subject: Re: Networking Question
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On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Jason Halbert wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I was thinking about trying something out and I wanted to see if
> anyone had any pointers or if they knew if it was even possible.
>
> I have a web server that is on DSL.  It's becoming fairly loaded and
> uses bandwidth.  I was wondering would it be possible to make a
> gateway in the following configuration:
>
>
>           ---------------------
> DSL-0-----|xl0                |
>           |                   |
>           |    Gateway Box    |
>           |                   |     -------
> DSL-1-----|xl1             xl2|-----| Hub |----->
>           ---------------------     -------
>
> I was wondering if that BSD could perform some kind of load balancing
> on the two DSL connections.  Or if there is some other way of
> combining two DSL services.  I would go to a T-line if I had the
> money.  But I thought I would see if this or some other arrangement is
> possible.  I have already contacted the phone company and my ISP and
> neither support this kind of thing, but do not see a problem with me
> trying.
>
> Any ideas?

The general question of load balancing a number of
garden-variety Internet connections has been asked
and answered here a few times. Check the mail-list
archives for some good answers to this.

http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html

.cr


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