multiple ISP

[nyoman.bogi at gmail.com]

thanks Julian,
buat I think fwd in ipfw will use round robin mechanism
instead of load balancing, which I prefer.
or perhaps my knowledge about fwd is a little bit old
maybe fwd can do the load balancing?



On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 10/28/11 7:22 AM, nyoman.bogi at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> dear all,
>>
>> I need to set up a router (using FreeBSD)
>> that connect to the Internet
>> to accomodate multiple ISP,
>> so users can be load balanced through
>> those several ISP lines.
>>
>> how can I do that?
>>
>
> Is it ok for you to NAT the connecitons? You pretty much have to unless
> you can convince your ISPs
> to call you a peer (unlikely).
>
> Basically NAT both outgoing interfaces (see descriptions elsewhere
> on how to run natd on two interfaces), and then use the setfib rule in
> ipfw to select which routing table to use for each session
> and then set up the tables to use different outgoing interfaces.
>
> you could also use the 'fwd' ipfw rule instead of the setfib rule.
>
>
>  thanks in advance
>>
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