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Date:      Mon, 20 Jan 2003 09:53:18 +0000
From:      Rob O'Donnell <robert@aphnet.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   round robin routing - how?
Message-ID:  <5.1.1.6.0.20030120094114.027b2a60@aph2k>

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Hi there!

I've had a good google for this, but not come up with anything significant...

My LAN has two available route to the internet - a FreeBSD box with an ADSL 
modem, (192.168.0.9) and a hardware ADSL router (192.168.0.10) .  Two 
seperate ADSL lines, both the the same ISP as it happens (though am moving 
one of them shortly.)

I can set up the clients individually with one or the other address as 
default gateway, and each has full access to the 'net at the maximum 
bandwidth of one line.

Is it possible under FreeBSD to set up some sort of round-robin router - I 
have another hardware ADSL router available, and am not adverse to sticking 
a couple more network cards in the FreeBSD box if necessary - what I was 
envisaging was the FreeBSD machine is default gateway for all clients on 
the lan, and it then routes out to the 'net via either hardware router - so 
any clients that wants faster bandwidth can get it, as long as they use 
multiple connections and don't expect any one of them to go over the 512K 
of one ADSL line.

Basically, I want something that does the same job as the Nexland pro800 
turbo:
http://www.nexland.com/turbo.cfm

I've seen references to ng_one2many, but the examples look like they tie 
multiple adapters together such that they operate as one adapter with one 
address on one LAN - would this work if i link two adapters directly and 
independently to two routers and set them up identically?

I've also seen references that (at least some versions of) Linux can have 
multiple default gateways and just use them in sequence.  I don't want to 
have to swap over though...

Many thanks in advance,

Rob,





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