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Subject: Re: FreeBSD and 2 ADSL links
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 20:22, J65nko wrote:
> On 10/5/06, Thiago Rocha <thiago.bsdes@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi!
> >
> > Brazilian I and do not say English, I forgive for any error!
> >
> > I have a FreeBSD Server (5.4). This server links ADSL has two,
> > and I need to balance the load between them, e also case one
> > stops the other keeps the connection.
>
> You can do this with pf, see
> http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/pools.html#outgoing and
> http://openbsd.org/faq/pf/carp.html

Using pools is sort of a poor man's load balancing.  It's more of a 
round-robin approach to using more than one link.  It's not going to 
allow you to do a single transfer using the aggregated bandwidth of 
both links.

-- 
Thanks,

Josh Paetzel