Re: Loadbalancing Multiple DSL Lines

Sterling Windmill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Message-ID <[email protected]>
You would probably be better served by pfSense for this application.

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On Apr 30, 2010, at 8:07 AM, Christian Decker <[email protected] 
 > wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm pretty sure this won't work but I have to ask anyway. Is there a  
> way to
> loadbalance multiple DSL Lines (or even a DSL Line with a cablemodem  
> Line)
> behind a single m0n0wall instance running on an Alix board?
> The problem is that my users need quite some bandwidth, which can  
> only be
> satisfied by a cable connection, but I hate that cable provider since
> instead of the 99.9% uptime guaranteed, they had a rhough 3 weeks  
> downtime
> last year, therefore the DSL as backup line.
>
> Even more importantly: the cable provider does not allow static IP
> assignments which is critical for us since we have to provide some  
> services
> (Mail, HTTP, DNS, ...) to the outside world.
>
> So services use the DSL line, users use the cable line if available,  
> DSL
> otherwise.
>
> Is there a way to do that?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
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