Re: Using multiple DSL internet connections and load balancing

["Ivan Montoro" <ivanm@knowgate.com>]

Actualy my english is realy poor, I need to do a realy big work to express
myself in english, and docs in my language (Spanish) are not very prone
about networking ;). What should I look for? FAQ of oBSD doesn't reveal me
too much (maybe I'm a full dummy?). I hope this will be a RTFM problem, but
I don't know where to look for!!!

Thanks

Ivan Montoro
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralph Forsythe" <rforsythe@centerone.com>
To: "Ivan Montoro" <ivanm@knowgate.com>
Cc: <misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 12:21 AM
Subject: Re: Using multiple DSL internet connections and load balancing


> Usa PF to source route?  "Use the man pages, luke".  Check the FAQ too, I
> can't remember but I think it said something brief about that.
>
> -rf
>
> On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Ivan Montoro wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I've just installed my fresh copy of OpenBSD in my old internet gateway,
> > and I'm wondering if it's possible to buy a second internet connection
> > (DSL in my case) and load balance traffic in some way. Well, I don't
> > even need a *true* load balance, just use one connection for Web/FTP
> > and leave the other one for mail and other not-so-bandwidth-intensive
> > applications.
> >
> > Here goes the schema of the network:
> > #                          +---------+
> > # LAN 192.168.1.0/24 ------| OpenBSD +--- Primary DSL
> > #                     .254 +----+----+    (62.9.10.252, gw 62.9.10.193)
> > #                               |
> > #                               | Secondary DSL
> > #                               | (62.4.11.147, gw 62.4.11.129)
> >
> > I've set up the gateway with the first DSL, leaving the second down.
> > Everything works fine, NAT, remote access via SSH, FTP, etc...
> >
> > Now I don't know what's next. I've seen that Squid has a directive
> > "tcp_outgoing_address" that could help me (default gw for LAN is the
> > box and I'll setup a transparent proxy). Another option is use the
> > "divert" option in PF to forward traffic from LAN to any DSL I want.
> >
> > By now I haven't done anything, since I don't know which option should
> > I choose or what commands should I issue to make this work. Please
> > consider that I'm barely newbie on this, so detailed explainations will
> > be largely appreciated ;)
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ivan Montoro