Possible? Linux router using BOTH cable and DSL?

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2 total messages Started by Thomas Rohricht Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:47

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Author: Thomas Rohricht
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:47

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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?

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Re: Possible? Linux router using BOTH cable and DSL?

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Author: Rich Lafferty
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 00:20

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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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Rich Lafferty ----------------------------------------
 Nocturnal Aviation Division, IITS Computing Services
 Concordia University, Montreal, QC
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