[H-GEN] Load balancing

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-07-08, Three Blokes wrote:

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>                      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 ?

This is Not Easy -- but it has been covered about a million
times on the FreeBSD list devoted to this subject.  Read the
archives of the net at FreeBSD.org list and you'll get lots of
information.

Cheers, Greg

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