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From: kjerste soderberg <kjerstes@yahoo.com>
Subject: Solaris or Nexland? WAS: RE: aggregating bandwidth fr 3 incoming DSL lines
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Thank you to the respondents thus far
Pls advise further on this; here's what I have so far
I've been digging more into this;

Nexland makes a $300+ broadband router product that
can aggregate between 2 DSL lines up to 8Mbps
this is inexpensive but it's only for 2 lines .. 
& only up to 8Mbps combined

I've found that Solaris 2.6+ can supposedly have
multiple default routes in /etc/defaultrouter and can
round robin between these.
Some claim to have used it to do what I seek.

I'd rather stick w/ FBSD
here's my question; has anyone looked at the Solaris
code for this functionality "coupled" w/ natd ?

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On
> Behalf Of kjerste
> >soderberg
> >Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:21 PM
> >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >Subject: aggregating bandwidth fr 3 incoming DSL
> lines
> >
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >Fat Pipe Networks has these expensive "black boxes"
> >that will accept the input of any 4-8 incoming
> >ethernet interfaces (say DSL lines, cable modems,
> T-1)
> >and then aggregate that bandwidth over all
> interfaces
> >
> >Great for load balancing, fail-over, large FTP
> >TRANSFERS ...
> >
> >DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO IT, whether they NAT
> whatever
> >..
> >
> >Anything I can use in FBSD 4.3 to mimic that type
> of
> >behavior .. say 3 ethernet NICs in 1 FBSD box that
> >accept these 3 incoming DSL-to-ethernet connections
> >and a 4th NIC tied to the LAN (w/ NATd running ..)

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