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Date:      Fri, 9 Oct 1998 21:41:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <jeff-ml@mountin.net>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IP Load balancing
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9810092139160.5795-100000@mailhost.clipper.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810090920.JAA05532@etinc.com>

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On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Dennis wrote:

> I may be out of context on this thread, but you could easily controll traffic
> OUT with load-balanced serial lines on a freebsd box...IN is another banana.
> 
> INET#1  INET#2
>   .           .
>    .         .
>     .       .
>     Router
>        .
>        .
>    Your net
> 
> DB

Or you could use FreeBSD2.2.6+ and use the mpath patch to allow ECMP routing
and run Gated with OSPF to your upstream (assuming both serial lines
terminate to the same upstream) and have auto failover AND load balancing..

Tim

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