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In can.internet.highspeed,
Thomas Rohricht <see@sig.file> wrote:
> Of course lots of people have used Linux to build a firewall/router box for 
> their connection to broadband internet, but I'm wondering if anybody has 
> ever done this to connect to *both* cable modem and DSL at the same time. 
> The idea would be to pull data through the fastest channel at any given 
> moment, and have some redundency in case one of the two services goes down 
> for a while.
> 
> Any thoughts on whether this is at all feasible using an old machine with 
> three NICs?

I can't imagine why it *wouldn't*. The difficult part would be that
involving load balancing, but I'm sure you could at least use a naive
approach if it wasn't possible to do intelligently.

(I've got two connections and routes on one ADSL modem, just because I
can. I find that for a dedicated router, BSDs require much less effort
than Linux, for what its worth.)

  -Rich 


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