[H-GEN] Load balancing

Three Blokes gerbil at bigpond.net.au
Tue Jul 8 03:48:40 EDT 2003


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Hi Everyone,
                     At work I am looking at getting 2 1.5m/bit DSL
connections(we currently have one).  A FreeBSD box is using PPP nat to route
our current connection effectively, but i'm a little worried about what
might happen when two PPP connections are available on the one machine, will
BSD balance the load between the two ?, will it use the second connection at
all ?, when one is congested or lagged will it choose the faster one?, and
if not am I able to set it up to do any/all of these things ?

If anyone has any experience with this I will appreciate any comments you
can offer me, good or bad, as I don't really have a huge margin for error(it
has to be up and running in one night) and would like to squash any gotcha's
now before the heat is on.

Thanks Everyone!
        Joe


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