Date: Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:28:38 -0500 From: Nathan Vidican <nvidican@wmptl.com> To: pretenda@wrgn.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD router two DSL connections Message-ID: <43AAAA06.20407@wmptl.com> In-Reply-To: <4lkejh$1brrfs@iinet-mail.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au> References: <4lkejh$1brrfs@iinet-mail.icp-qv1-irony7.iinet.net.au>
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pretenda@wrgn.net wrote: >>Which is not redundant. > > > > > >>Considering the OP asked for specifics on how to do this and your > > >>response as been a bunch of theoretical gobbdleygook that is flat out > > >>wrong network theory, you haven't done anything to help the poor bastard. > > > > > Hi, > > > > This is a pretty firey debate. > > > > I have a question along the lines of this thread. I currently have a 1.5Mbit > ADSL tail at the school that I work for. This tail connects to the Education > Office which hosts a variety of websites, we then get internet access > through the education office. > > > > We currently also have 230 PCs, and the connection is slowing down > significantly. What I planned on doing was purchasing a 20Mbit ADSL 2+ > connection and setting up a FreeBSD router which forwards all internet > traffic through the ADSL2+ connection, and the Education Office traffic > would be forwarded through the existing connection. Is this feasible? I > would assume that it would be a simple matter of letting the router know > what ranges need to be forwarded to the existing connection, and defaulting > the rest to the new connection. > > > > Note there is NO load balancing in this scenario, so don't flame my head > off. > > > > Sorry if this is not making sense, I've had a long day. > > > > Cheers, > > Matt > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > First off, you might have posted this under a new subject/thread to avoid getting into the debate and to potentially get replies from those not interested in agruing this one anymore. That said - there's all the flame you'll get from me. You should be able to connect both of your 'tails' (interesting term btw - never heard a pipe/connection called a 'tail') - and yes, specify which are to go out the pipe to your education office, set the default route to the other connection and you should be off to the races, ie: Con1 (education office) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Con2 (Large ADSL pipe) yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy route add 0.0.0.0 yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy route add some.ip.net.work/24 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx route add some.other.ip.range/26 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx etc... Of course, depending on your configuration, you may have to use your upstream provided default route instead of the interface IP as indicated in the above example, (PPPoE uses your own IP as the default gateway, which is the case in -most- DSL setups). Anyhow, should be relatively straight-forward, just add the static routes to a script called when the connection is made, (for ppp, use ppp.links). -- Nathan Vidican nvidican@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/
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