From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Oct 11 3:36: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.polytechnic.edu.na (mail.polytechnic.edu.na [196.31.225.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A480614D7A for ; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 03:35:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tim@iafrica.com.na) Received: from [196.31.225.199] (helo=310.priebe.alt.na) by mail.polytechnic.edu.na with smtp (Exim 3.02 #2) id 11aej2-0001eP-00; Mon, 11 Oct 1999 10:38:48 -0200 From: Tim Priebe Reply-To: tim@iafrica.com.na To: "Andreas Pleschutznig" , Subject: Re: Load balancing between multiple lines? Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 12:17:33 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain References: <004901bf1344$18282050$eb04020a@nt.schwab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <99101112370201.25232@310.priebe.alt.na> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Andreas Pleschutznig wrote: > >%_Hi, > > I'm in the process of getting multiple DSL lines (4-8) and what I want to do is set up a FreeBSD box as a router handling all these lines. The problem now is that all the lines go to the same ISP, and will have all the same netmask. In addition to that I would like to share the traffic on these lines, at least on a round robbin basis. > > I could think of changing the routing code in the kernel, if there is no other possibilities, but I would rather not go that route if I don't have to. So my question is: Does anybody know of any solution that handles 4-8 lines and does a load sharing between them, without buying a $30k router? > > > Andreas I do not understand the referance to $ 30 000. Even here a Cisco 2600 with 4 - 2 Mb/s interfaces is only about $ 3000, and a 3640 with 8 is about $ 13 000. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message